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The Trichan investigations removed vast caches of child sexual abuse material from public forums but did not lead to arrests because the takedown effort was primarily detection-and-removal led by a ch...
Defenses that have produced acquittals or case dismissals in online CSAM prosecutions most often exploit weaknesses in proof of knowing possession, chain-of-custody and forensic reliability, and const...
It is realistic—though not guaranteed—for CSAM to remain undiscovered on file hosts because distribution tactics exploit technical detection limits, jurisdictional hosting choices, and social-networki...
If a file in cloud storage is exposed via a publicly accessible URL or an indexed link, proactive crawlers run by civil-society bodies such as Project Arachnid and the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) ...
Project Arachnid and the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) run automated crawlers that scan web pages and compare media against databases of known child sexual abuse material (CSAM) using hashing and si...
Investigating every person who downloads CSAM from a file-hosting site linked to a teen porn site is legally mandatory in many jurisdictions and technologically possible in limited cases, but it is op...
When a file-hosting site is found to contain CSAM, platforms and intermediaries routinely report identifying data to authorities — usually information they possess about the uploader and the hosting o...