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Pics AND it Didn’t Happen: Sex Deepfake FBI Alert

Pics AND it Didn’t Happen: Sex Deepfake FBI Alert

| | Adversarial machine learning, AI, AI (Artificial Intelligence), AI and machine learning, Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML), child porn, child pornography, child sexual exploitation, childpornography, Deep Fake, Deep Fakery, Deep fakes, deepfake, deepfake videos, deepfakes, Evil Machine Learning, FBI, machine learning, Machine Learning security, porn, pornography, revenge porn, SB Blogwatch, sex, sextortion, sextortion scam, sextortionist, sexual harassment
Fake Pr0n Hint: Sextortionists stealing your innocent pictures to make AI nudes ...
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Governments Try to Ban Encryption (Yet Again)

Governments Try to Ban Encryption (Yet Again)

| | Child Abuse, child exploitation, child porn, child pornography, child sexual exploitation, CSAM, encryption, end-to-end encryption, SB Blogwatch, signal, Threema, WhatsApp, Won’t somebody think of the children?
Déjà vu: Yet again, they’re tugging on the “think of the children” strings. But you can’t make math illegal ...
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De-anonymizing Bitcoin

| | Bitcoin, child pornography, cryptocurrency, de-anonymization, tracing, Uncategorized
Andy Greenberg wrote a long article — an excerpt from his new book — on how law enforcement de-anonymized bitcoin transactions to take down a global child porn ring. Within a few ...
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Is Apple’s Client-Side Child Porn Scanning Legal?

| | Apple, child pornography, CSAM, Data Privacy, Stored Communications Act
Apple recently announced that it will start scanning devices individuals have purchased from Apple for both images that constitute child sexual abuse materials (CSAM) and for text messages or communications that are ...
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Bill to Prevent Child Porn Could Kill Encryption

| | child exploitation, child pornography, Cyberlaw, encryption, legislation
New legislation being introduced by Sen. Lindsay Graham ostensibly to prevent the spread of child porn and other child sexual abuse materials (CSAM) may have the effect of prohibiting the kinds of ...
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PA Supreme Court Rules Defendant Need Not Decrypt Drive

| | child pornography, Decryption, Disk encryption, Fifth Amendment, Password, Pennsylvania Supreme Court
One of the perennial issues facing courts is the extent to which the government can compel an individual to decrypt the contents of a file, a computer or a server. Jumping into ...
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Court Says Minor Can Be Prosecuted for Sexting

| | child pornography, Maryland court, Privacy, sexting, Supreme Court
A law designed to protect minors from child pornography was used to prosecute a Maryland high school student for sexting During the 2016-17 school year, a high school student with the initial ...
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