Apple removes references to CSAM from its child safety webpage

Re:Apple removes references to CSAM from its child safety w... by Grustaf on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @09:31AM (#29566407)

Why would they want to entrap people with fake child porn images? What would even be the point of getting people flagged? They would never be convicted anyway, since they are not actually storing illegal images.

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Re:Apple removes references to CSAM from its child safety w... by Syonyk on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @10:14AM (#29567023)

It doesn't matter.

What matters is that the person is arrested, that their name is leaked to the mainstream news media, and that they're dragged through the mud - the same as seems to happen in literally every other child porn case.

The actual guilt or innocence doesn't matter at that point. Their lives have been sufficiently ruined, and, if they are actually innocent, the message has been clearly sent.

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Re:Apple removes references to CSAM from its child safety w... by Grustaf on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @10:24AM (#29567144)

Do you have any examples of that happening, innocent people getting arrested for child porn? Never heard of it.

In any case, the police will not arrest anyone because they have only been flagged by the automatic system. As soon as Apple reviews the images that triggered the flagging, they will see that they aren't actually child porn, and hence they won't even contact the police.

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Re:Apple removes references to CSAM from its child safety w... by yunesj on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @10:59AM (#29567774)

I recently described an example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29567729

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Re:Apple removes references to CSAM from its child safety w... by Grustaf on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @01:32PM (#29569802)

Seems they went after him for other things

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/2021/08/bitcoin-ian-free...

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