← Back to context

Comment by wbl

4 years ago

Could you say more about these legal photos? That's a pretty big difference from what I thought was contained in the DB.

15 comments

wbl

Reply
0xy  4 years ago

If there are pictures recovered alongside CSAM but are not CSAM themselves they can be included in the database.

The thing I can publicly say is that the database is not strictly for illegal or even borderline imagery.

NCMEC try to keep the contents, processes and access to the database under wraps for obvious reasons.

  • oh_sigh  4 years ago

    So are we talking about images which are not actually CSAM but a reasonable person would consider to be CSAM if they encountered them? Or is it just the README.txt for whatever popular bittorrent client?

    • 0xy  4 years ago

      A reasonable person would call it a normal picture if they encountered it in isolation. Like I said, content which is not even borderline are included.

      By both a legal and moralistic standard they're not CSAM. Not even nearly.

      Of course, this is a minority of the content in the database. But even 1 such image is gross neglect of stated purpose in my book.

      10 replies →

stevekemp  4 years ago

I would imagine it would include things like Nirvana's Nevermind album-cover, or a better example Scorpion's album cover for Virgin Killer.