The idea of a pack of ... auditing my personal messages and photos to my wife is abhorrent.
What we need is actual police doing actual police work, and actually judges putting actual pedophiles away for life. Not stalking normal people.
But, I guess cowardice is alive and well - normals don’t shoot cops and judges in the face, so they’re easy targets to satisfy the “just do something” vote.
Per the article, 90% of the kids-and-bare-skin photos received are found to be totally innocuous once a human looks at them; no action is taken, and the photos and associated personal info are removed from police computers.
So to stop child pornography an all-seeing third party vets my families photographs even when shared privately via WhatsApp or similar? That's fucked.
Like.....what do you expect?
I'm not trying to blame you here but since you're on this website I assume you're more generally knowledgable about stuff happening. We've known about variations of this for so long.
Heck even Facebook has a private message system they claim it's e2ee.
That's the problem most people have with this.
Yes, but it's an invasion of privacy to even have someone looking at pictures that weren't shared publicly. Basically what you've just said is that 90% of the time they are invading innocent peoples privacy.
Child porn is really bad, the right to privacy is also really important, I'm not convinced they've made the right decision here.
What fills in the blank left by your ellipsis is one of the real points to be made in light of this story.
We have to ask: who is fighting to have this job? In fact, who is this job tailor-made for in the first place?
It seems to me that there is no (or, at most, very little) legitimate security interest being served by this process. But the opportunity created for someone who enjoys looking at these sorts of pictures - and doing it under cover of law - is absolutely obvious.