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CSAM Detection and Reporting

The process of detecting and reporting Child Sexual Abuse Material, including the use of hash matching technology and human review.

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Jan 15, 2026

In Twitters policy it states that it will only report posting and sharing CSAM to the NCMEC and not liking, bookmarking or replying. What is Twitter required to submit about a passive viewer?

Twitter/X publicly says it reports instances of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) — principally the content and accounts that post or share that material — to the National Center for Missing and Expl...

Jan 20, 2026

How does X/xAI describe its process for reporting CSAM to NCMEC and what logs exist of those reports?

There are no provided sources that describe X or xAI’s CSAM reporting workflow specifically; available reporting instead documents how electronic service providers (ESPs) typically detect, report and ...

Jan 29, 2026

How do platforms and NCMEC process and report suspected CSAM to law enforcement?

Platforms detect suspected child sexual abuse material () using technology and human review, then must report apparent CSAM to the (NCMEC)’s CyberTipline under federal law; NCMEC triages, annotates an...

Jan 13, 2026

Have any tech companies disclosed instances where their AI systems flagged user prompts as suspected CSAM and escalated them to authorities?

No company in the provided reporting has publicly said that an AI system flagged a user prompt as suspected child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and then escalated that prompt directly to law enforcemen...

Jan 20, 2026

What legal defenses and immunities exist for platforms that use hash-matching tools to comply with state CSAM takedown laws?

Platforms that deploy hash‑matching to find and remove child sexual abuse material (CSAM) gain practical compliance tools and access to reporting pipelines like NCMEC’s CyberTipline, but statutory imm...

Jan 11, 2026

do police actively try to identify cyberlocker downloaders of discovered csam files

Police and specialized task forces do actively try to identify people who download CSAM from cyberlocker services when those leads are available and investigatively valuable; investigators rely on pla...

Jan 6, 2026

why would a file host still have csam up after i reported it? will the ones who downloaded the file be pursued or just uploader

A report of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) to a platform or to NCMEC does not guarantee immediate removal because reporting, preservation, and downstream law‑enforcement processing create legal an...

Feb 3, 2026

근데 구글에서 넘어간 실물 csam이면 ncmec에서 전부 검토를 하게되는지, 몇개만 뽑아서 검토하고 대다수가 그냥 넘어가는지 궁금해

은 플랫폼에서 탐지한 (실물 이미지·동영상 포함)에 대해 자체적으로 해시와 인력 검토를 거쳐 에 신고하며, 이 과정에서 구글은 보고되는 항목 각각의 해시를 독립적으로 검토한다고 밝힌다; 보고된 자료의 대다수(약 90%)는 이미 NCMEC 데이터베이스에 있는 기존 CSAM과 일치한다는 것이 구글의 설명이다 . 반면 NCMEC은 들어오는 대량의 사이버팁을 해시...

Feb 2, 2026

What mechanisms and quality controls do platforms use to reduce false positives before reporting CSAM to NCMEC?

Platforms rely on layered technical and human checks—hash-based matching to known , machine‑learning classifiers for novel material, and human moderation/triage—plus engineered reporting workflows and...

Jan 30, 2026

What notification, retention, and reporting processes do ISPs follow after detecting potential CSAM access?

Internet service providers (ISPs and online service operators detect potential using automated hashing and filtering tools and then take a mix of technical and legal steps: block or remove access, not...

Jan 18, 2026

Gemini csam 사진 업로드로 ncmec에 보고된사례

There are well-established pathways by which images uploaded to online services are detected and reported to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), including automated hashing a...