• JPAKx4@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    11 hours ago

    Good news, that’s not how the CSAM database works. What happens is the image is hashed (for non technical people, hashing is a way of always generating the same “ID” from the file data) and the image is discarded. Now the article I found to verify my claim also talks about how the FBI used to distribute CSAM to catch people, so they have some probably… But not a database wide amount.

    https://cybernews.com/editorial/war-on-child-exploitation/

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      11 hours ago

      Well… I’m going to hope you are more right than wrong and that they do not actually have a massive CSAM database.