These statistics on child sexual imagery are confusing. Does an increase in the *number of images* correlate to an increase in the rate of child abuse? Or do pictures just pile up over time?pic.twitter.com/j06VCMTYDj
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These statistics on child sexual imagery are confusing. Does an increase in the *number of images* correlate to an increase in the rate of child abuse? Or do pictures just pile up over time?pic.twitter.com/j06VCMTYDj
I mean, obviously this stuff is disgusting. But we live in an era when it’s easier than ever to take and keep pictures. So of course statistics like “number of images” are going to show huge increases. But I don’t care about the size of someone’s SD card, I care about kids.
The NYT article that underlies these statistics just seems *distressingly* unconcerned with the actual kids. You see a picture like this, the first question any reasonable person asks is: holy shit, does this mean a huge increase in exploited children?! Not this article.pic.twitter.com/X2HpAOivmN
The article even goes on to say that part of the reason these numbers are spiking is because of *improved detection efforts* at providers.
Mass surveillance of child sexual imagery seems like a particularly stupid and ineffective way to fight this crime. People who share these images aren’t terrorists in some tight cell structure. They’re just randos who find each other on the Internet.
If you want to bust online sharing rings, you don’t need to build a mass-scale image recognition system that would make Xi Jinping jealous. Just have your agents make some fake accounts and hang out in the wrong part of the web.
The people fighting child sexual exploitation are pretty vocal about the status quo (basically, Facebook matching images against a known database) being extremely helpful.
How? Can you explain? It’s not reducing the incidence of this particular crime any, if I read this article. Is it catching abusers? Do you have links?
In any other area, if we deployed a crime prevention system and the rate of that crime increased by 1,750% in the four years after it went live, we’d say that it wasn’t working well. But that’s more a criticism of the statistics the NYT article uses.
I’m open to the idea that maybe “number of images shared” isn’t actually a useful number. What I want to understand is: what actions get taken on the basis of these systems, and how do they help kids?
They get referred to NCMEC, who triages them and brings them to law enforcement. In some cases they can identify the child and get them out of the abusive environment. They speak eloquently and at length about how valuable the referrals are, and how many kids it has rescued
But this system identifies only sharing of *known child pornography*. How does it help to identify a specific child who was abused to make that imagery?
Most of the stuff is made by family members. Clues within the material can help identify it, as well as the networks it disseminates through. In a lot of cases, the abuse is ongoing and chronic, so if you can find someone, you can remove them from a terrible day to day reality
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