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by themitigating 1092 days ago
This article talks about how those numbers are manipulated https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/24/senator-durbins-stop-csa...

Snippet-- "I mean, back in March of 2009, the tools to track, find and report CSAM were in their infancy. Facebook didn’t start using PhotoDNA (which was only developed in 2009) until the middle of 2011. It’s unclear when Google started using it as well, but this announcement suggests it was around 2013 — noting that “recently” the company started using “encrypted “fingerprints” of child sexual abuse images into a cross-industry database” (which describes PhotoDNA)."

This is what I'm talking about with paranoid parents. I'm sick of your "save the children" bullshit