EU proposal to scan all private messages gains momentum

Re:EU proposal to scan all private messages gains momentum by JimDabell on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @10:53AM (#44812861)

> If circumvention takes little to no effort the people that are already committed to CSAM are going to CSAM.

Meta made 1.8M CSAM reports to authorities in 2024 Q4 alone. An awful lot of these people aren’t taking any steps at all to avoid detection – they are posting it to social media.

You can argue the ethics of this scanning all you want, but if you’re arguing that it won’t be effective then you’re wrong.

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Re:EU proposal to scan all private messages gains momentum by potato3732842 on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @11:05AM (#44813011)

You're acting like those 1.8m reports are actually legit. I'd wager it's 99% baby pictures, gore, normal porn and dank memes, in that order and that the other 1% was parties a) already on the radar of law enforcement b) hacked accounts being utilized for that purpose by parties unknown.

If it were of real value they'd be touting arrests, not reports.

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Re:EU proposal to scan all private messages gains momentum by Faark on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @11:41AM (#44813509)

You forgot c) real but won't be looked at by understaffed police agencies

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Re:EU proposal to scan all private messages gains momentum by nickslaughter02 on Thursday August 07, 2025 @08:32AM (#44823639)

Have 1.8 million people been arrested? If not it's clear the detection got it wrong.

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