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Police generally need probable cause and judicially authorized warrants to search private accounts or devices; courts have split on whether AI-flagged provider reports alone suffice to create probable...
DOGE has been granted or sought broad access to multiple federal data systems and has helped centralize immigration-related datasets, and officials and watchdogs report that ICE is seeking to use some...
Viewing child sexual abuse material (CSAM) is treated seriously under U.S. law: federal and state statutes criminalize the creation, possession, and distribution of CSAM and treat it as evidence of ch...
Defenses to federal CSAM charges where the accused “only passively viewed” material hinge on the government’s burden to prove possession or knowledge and procedural limits on evidence and searches; co...
Courts and lawmakers are applying traditional criminal standards (knowledge/recklessness) and civil reporting regimes to CSAM while rapidly adapting to AI‑generated material; several federal statutes ...
Law enforcement and prosecutors must show probable cause to a judge before obtaining a search warrant to look for CSAM — typically by presenting an affidavit describing the suspected location, the evi...
Automatic caching or background cloud backups can leave users with copies of images they did not intend to keep, and defense arguments have arisen around lack of knowledge or automatic processes rathe...
Law enforcement “honeypot” or sting operations that involve child sexual abuse material (CSAM) sit at the intersection of criminal law, evidence rules, constitutional limits and sectoral reporting reg...
There is no clear public reporting in the supplied sources that says “viewers of CSAM get pirotized” (term not defined in sources); available reporting instead focuses on how investigators and platfor...
The primary federal landscape under debate is the STOP CSAM Act of 2025 (S.1829/H.R.3921), which would narrow some immunities while also creating new limited liability protections and reporting duties...
Antisemitic conspiracy theories have driven a measurable rise in real-world antisemitic incidents and shaped public policy debates, with reports showing conspiracy-linked rhetoric present in 73% of UK...
Evolving privacy and encryption debates in 2025 are tightening the trade‑offs between law enforcement access to metadata/device forensics and civil‑liberties protections: U.S. bills like the STOP CSAM...