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> It's just a first heuristic to narrow down the pool of photos that conceivably might be child porn to something that human investigators can feasibly check.

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.




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