Posted on 11/09/2019 5:35:00 PM PST by KingofZion
The two sisters live in fear of being recognized. One grew out her bangs and took to wearing hoodies. The other dyed her hair black. Both avoid looking the way they did as children.
Ten years ago, their father did the unthinkable: He posted explicit photos and videos on the internet of them, just 7 and 11 at the time. Many captured violent assaults in their Midwestern home, including him and another man drugging and raping the 7-year-old.
The men are now in prison, but in a cruel consequence of the digital era, their crimes are finding new audiences. The two sisters are among the first generation of child sexual abuse victims whose anguish has been preserved on the internet, seemingly forever.
This year alone, photos and videos of the sisters were found in over 130 child sexual abuse investigations involving mobile phones, computers and cloud storage accounts.
The digital trail of abuse — often stored on Google Drive, Dropbox and Microsoft OneDrive — haunts the sisters relentlessly, they say, as does the fear of a predator recognizing them from the images.
*** The companies have the technical tools to stop the recirculation of abuse imagery by matching newly detected images against databases of the material. Yet the industry does not take full advantage of the tools.
Amazon, whose cloud storage services handle millions of uploads and downloads every second, does not even look for the imagery. Apple does not scan its cloud storage, according to federal authorities, and encrypts its messaging app, making detection virtually impossible. Dropbox, Google and Microsoft’s consumer products scan for illegal images, but only when someone shares them, not when they are uploaded.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
I understand the feeling that we should do whatever is necessary to stop something as evil as child pornography.
But ...
Do you own a smart phone? If you do, a copy of almost everything on it exists in the cloud. That’s how they are able to restore all your data when you change or lose your phone.
Have you ever taken a picture of you infant in the bathtub? I haven’t, but my mother-in-law did. This was years ago and she was from an era when such pictures were common and innocent,
If your mother-in-lae takes such a picture and texts it to you, do you really want Amazon, Google or Microsoft designing algorithm that determines whether to reoprt you to federal authorities?
And if next year, they start monitoring “hate speech”, will our Free Republic posts be reported too?
As I type this from my smart phone, I have a triangle with an exclamation point near the top left corner of my screen, because someone in the tech industry considers Free Republic a “dangerous” site (probably a security certificate thing).
We are not far from a Chinese social credit score system (which they would argue is designed to discourage dangerous anti-social behavior).
It’s a slippery slope.
The real point of the article. Everyone drop your pants for the federal body cavity inspection, because someone somewhere is a potential criminal.
Pedogate is not just a U.S. monstrosity. It is satanic and an international horror show from hell.
Oh come on, Tech Billionaires like kiddie porn too, that is why it is still there.
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