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Comment by 0xy

4 years ago

That's the stated purpose, but keep in mind that these databases (NCMEC's in particular, which is used by FB and very likely Apple) contain legal images that are NOT child porn.

Source for that info?

  • Think of it this way, take a regular, legal set of adult pornographic pictures. While legal, we'd still classify this set of pictures as known porn if we were tracking it.

    Now the first few images might be the model completely clothed and not even be porn, maybe there's a picture of her lounging around a pool, then another picture of the pool itself. Still its part of a set of pictures that is known porn.

    Heck most porn starts off with actors being clothed (so I hear lol).