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CSAM Reports

The number of CSAM reports and how they are affected by end-to-end encryption

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Jan 16, 2026

How do investigators use metadata and platform logs to attribute CSAM to specific users or servers?

Investigators stitch together image hashes, file and network metadata, platform logs, and third‑party data to move from a detected file to a user or server of interest, using forensic pipelines and ma...

Jan 11, 2026

What empirical studies measure how encryption adoption affects the number of CSAM reports and law enforcement case openings?

There are remarkably few rigorous empirical studies that directly measure how adoption of end-to-end encryption (E2EE) changes the number of CSAM reports or the rate at which law enforcement opens cas...