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Encryption and CSAM Reports

The impact of end-to-end encryption on the number of CSAM reports and law enforcement case openings

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Jan 12, 2026
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How do investigators prioritize which CSAM-related IP addresses to probe?

Investigators prioritize which CSAM-related IP addresses to probe by combining automated content-matching and machine learning triage with contextual signals — such as known-hash matches, classifier c...

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...