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Child Safety

The importance of child safety and the role of detection tools in preventing child abuse.

Fact-Checks

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Jan 27, 2026
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How do Snapchat’s moderation tools (PhotoDNA, CSAI Match) operate without accessing user‑encrypted private folders?

employs hash‑matching systems — PhotoDNA for still images and ’s CSAI Match for videos — to detect known child sexual abuse material () without needing to read users’ encrypted private folders by comp...

Jan 29, 2026
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How do commercial CSAM-detection tools (Thorn, Hive) work and how effective are they on AI-generated images?

Commercial -detection products from and combine traditional hash‑matching against known illicit files with machine‑learning classifiers that operate on image embeddings and text classifiers to surface...

Jan 14, 2026
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Does OpenAI ban users who try to generate CSAM? If so what do the bans look like, and how long have they been banning such users

OpenAI does ban users who attempt to generate or upload child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and reports confirmed attempts to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), and the com...

Jan 29, 2026

How does NCMEC decide whether to make a report available to law enforcement?

is legally required to make CyberTipline reports available to law enforcement after it completes its internal review and determines jurisdictional routing, not to decide whether law enforcement should...

Jan 24, 2026

Did ice agents use Liam as bait

Multiple news outlets and say agents led 5‑year‑old to his front door and instructed him to knock “in order to see if anyone else was home,” a sequence those officials and witnesses describe as using ...