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The FBI's Innocent Images initiative, which aims to identify offenders and rescue victims of child exploitation
Investigations of people linked to (CSAM) begin for a handful of concrete, traceable reasons: external reports from tech platforms and tip lines, forensic discovery of illicit images or secret recordi...
Federal law enforcement agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI, a component of ICE/DHS), have explicit roles and long-standing programs...
The term “” appears in two contexts in the reporting: an academic conference series about computer vision and image processing (CVIP) and the ’s Child Victim Identification Program (also abbreviated C...
Prosecutions for people who produce and upload child sexual abuse material (CSAM) are far rarer than the volume of CSAM online because the problem outpaces law enforcement capacity, much of the materi...
Using Tor or Tor-based search engines is not illegal per se: Tor is a privacy tool used legally by researchers, activists and ordinary users . However, seeking pornographic images on Tor carries clear...
Available federal press releases and law‑enforcement summaries confirm high‑profile, coordinated enforcement actions that recently produced hundreds of arrests for child sexual abuse material (CSAM) a...