They look at content that people actively and explicitly chose to share with wider audiences.
While that's a snappy response, it doesn't seem to have much to do with the concern about perverts getting jobs specifically to view child abuse footage, which is what I thought this thread was about.
I didn't think that was what it's about... Because that didn't even occur to me. Thanks for pointing it out.
There's a big difference in the expectation of privacy between what someone posts on "Facebook, Youtube, et al" and what someone takes a picture of but doesn't share.
Couldn’t they always avoid ever flagging pictures taken on the device itself (camera, rather than download) since if those match, it’s always a false positive?
Odd, then, that Facebook reported 20.3 million photos to NCMEC last year, and Apple 265, according to the NYT that is.
A fair point but, again, quite aside from the concern being raised about moderators having to view potentially illegal content.
Yeah, we obviously needed one more company doing it as well, and I'm sure having more positions in the job market which pretty much could be described as "Get paid to watch pedophilia all day long" will not backfire in any way.
Hopefully, in between the moral sponge work they do, occasionally gaze over a growing history of mugshots, years-left-in-sentence reminders, and death notices for the producers of this content, their enablers, and imitators.