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CSAM Detection and Reporting

The industry practice of detecting and reporting CSAM, including the use of hash databases and machine learning.

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Jan 15, 2026
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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 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 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...

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 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...

Jan 6, 2026

how often are accountless downloaders of csam file archives from file hosts such as mega actually pursued by law enforcement?

Accountless downloaders who grab CSAM archives from file hosts such as MEGA are pursued by law enforcement, but not with uniform frequency: platforms and hotlines generate massive volumes of leads tha...