No misconstrual needed. This technology is genuinely bad. It scans images against an arbitrary government-owned black-box database. There’s no guarantee that it’s only CSAM.
Mainland China will probably be the first chip to fall. Can't imagine the Ministry of State Security not actively licking their lips, waiting for this functionality to arrive.
> The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children® was established in 1984 as a private, nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization. Today, NCMEC performs the following 15 specific programs of work, funded in part by federal grants (34 U.S.C. § 11293): Source: https://www.missingkids.org/footer/about
US DOJ OJJDP lists recent grants totaling $84,446,366 in FY19 and FY20. Source: https://ojjdp.ojp.gov/funding/awards/list?awardee=NATIONAL%2...
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2258A
You must report to them and only them.
For the GP to claim they’re not government “owned” is a rhetorical trick at best and outright ignorant absurdity at worst.
Even though NCMEC describes itself as "private", it was established by and has been heavily funded by the U.S. government.
From an archive of NCMEC's own history page, cited on Wikipedia (https://web.archive.org/web/20121029010231/http://www.missin...):
> In 1984, the U.S. Congress passed the Missing Children’s Assistance Act which established a National Resource Center and Clearinghouse on Missing and Exploited Children. The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children was designated to fulfill this role.
> On June 13, 1984, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children was opened by President Ronald Reagan in a White House Ceremony. The national 24-hour toll-free missing children’s hotline 1-800-THE-LOST opened as well.
$40 million/year of U.S. government funding from a 2013 bill (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_Children%27s_Assistanc...):
> The Missing Children's Assistance Reauthorization Act of 2013 (H.R. 3092) is a bill that was introduced into the United States House of Representatives during the 113th United States Congress. The Missing Children's Assistance Reauthorization Act of 2013 reauthorizes the Missing Children's Assistance Act and authorizes $40 million a year to fund the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.