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Verizon and Its Cloud Vendor Must Face Lawsuit for Reporting "CSAM" That Wasn't (ericgoldman.org)
5 points by westi 11 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


>The second CyberTip stated that Synchronoss “had viewed the entire contents” of the second image, which “contained the lascivious exhibition of a ‘pre-pubescent’ minor.” In fact, Lawshe alleges, those statements were false, and the individuals in both images “were easily identifiable as adults by the barest of review.”

This is one of the concerns I have with these kinds of laws. It's starts with a hash flagging something and then goes all the way to some poor dude being arrested.

Even if a hash means someone looks at legal porn, you don't know the ages of those involved and people will very much interpret images differently.

I work with computers, I enjoy making them do things, but this kind of things with the false positives being potentially so damaging, no way. https://xkcd.com/2030/




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