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Online platforms must report suspected child sexual abuse material (CSAM) to NCMEC’s CyberTipline under 18 U.S.C. §2258A; NCMEC then reviews and makes those reports available to law enforcement, and p...
Known CSAM is identified primarily through hash-based matching—cryptographic and perceptual “digital fingerprints” compared against centralized hash repositories maintained by law‑enforcement, nonprof...
Internet service providers (ISPs and platform hosts detect known child sexual abuse material () in transit primarily by converting files into hashes—digital fingerprints—and matching those hashes agai...
The most persuasive proving dominion and control over CSAM are those that link the illicit material to an account or device with corroborating temporal, behavioral, and system-level metadata — specifi...
PhotoDNA is a perceptual “fuzzy” hashing system developed by Microsoft and Dartmouth to create robust digital fingerprints of known images so platforms and law enforcement can find copies even after c...
Prosecutors rely on digital‑forensic artifacts — hashed matches to known CSAM, file metadata (EXIF, timestamps), device activity timelines, and network or app traces — plus AI-assisted triage to show ...