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Global measurements of child sexual exploitation vary by metric: reported Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) takedown notifications are highest in some EU countries and other high-reporting states (St...
The recent landscape of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) enforcement shows a series of large, coordinated international takedowns that combined dark‑web platform seizures with mass arrests and victi...
ISPs can and do use a handful of technical methods to see or block access to porn sites, most commonly DNS-level blocking and IP/domain filtering; HTTPS prevents them from seeing exact page content bu...
Courts and prosecutors have brought several notable cases involving AI-generated child sexual abuse material (AIG‑CSAM), but outcomes differ: federal prosecutors charged a defendant after AI images we...
AI-generated child sexual abuse material (AI‑CSAM) is widespread, rapidly proliferating, and already treated as criminal under U.S. law: U.S. agencies and nonprofits report huge spikes in synthetic CS...
If an individual used Grok to generate sexually explicit images that depict minors, multiple specialist organizations and reporting indicate that such output falls within definitions of child sexual a...
ISPs and related providers primarily rely on hash-matching (including fuzzy hashes and PhotoDNA), blocklists from organisations like the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), and classifier/AI tools to det...
Major AI and tech firms have publicly committed to detecting, removing and reporting child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and AI-generated CSAM; signatory companies include Google, Meta, OpenAI, Microso...
ISPs use an array of network- and content-level techniques to detect and block child sexual abuse material (CSAM), most commonly URL and DNS blocklists, hash‑matching of known images/video fingerprint...
Grok is not a website "purely focused" on reporting visual CSAM to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC); it is an AI chatbot and image tool that has generated sexualized and po...
Global CSAM reporting shows two different stories: absolute volumes are concentrated in a few large hosts/countries — notably the United States and the Netherlands in multiple datasets — while per‑cap...
Recent analyses and NGO reports show the Netherlands hosts a very large share of Europe’s identified child sexual abuse material (CSAM): Childlight and multiple outlets report the country accounts for...
Available reporting shows countries vary depending on the metric: the Netherlands and the United States repeatedly appear as high-volume hosts of CSAM when measured by hosting location or per‑capita h...
Laws in most high‑income jurisdictions and many international instruments criminalise the production, distribution and possession of child sexual abuse material (CSAM); for example, U.S. federal law p...
Telegram does not appear to participate in NCMEC’s CyberTipline in the same, formalized way that major U.S.-based social platforms do, even as U.S. law (18 U.S.C. §2258A) requires “providers” to repor...
A person who encounters suspected child sexual abuse material (CSAM) online can use national hotlines, platform reporting tools, or global reporting portals that route reports to specialist hotlines a...
Accidentally downloading indecent images of children can have serious legal consequences in England and Wales because the law treats “making” or possessing such images as criminal offences, and a simp...
Link previews, thumbnail generation and cached data can create artifacts outside of message ciphertext that platforms or investigators can access; advocacy and government sources argue those side chan...
Advances in hashing and AI have dramatically increased platforms’ ability to find and remove “known” CSAM at scale—industry tools processed billions of images and surfaced millions of matches in recen...
Tidal and Bandcamp have recently taken explicit public steps that relate to artist rights and pay: Tidal launched a direct-upload tool and large cash contests but says uploaded tracks "do not earn roy...