Comment by 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.
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?
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.
But are these photos that are combined in a row with other CP, and thus indicative that if you have this photo, it’s from a CP collection?
Why would I have any content in my phone that would be in that database?
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