DNSFilter Sets New Benchmark for CSAM Protection with 2025 Year-End Blocking Results

As part of its content filtering service, DNSFilter automatically blocks CSAM content and generates detailed reports on related activity. The company expanded its blocklist by hundreds of thousands of ...
Engadget

Apple sued for failing to implement tools that would detect CSAM in iCloud

Apple is being sued by victims of child sexual abuse over its failure to follow through with plans to scan iCloud for child sexual abuse materials (CSAM), The New York Times reports. In 2021, Apple ...
AppleInsider

Apple slammed for not doing enough to prevent CSAM distribution

Apple and Microsoft have provided details of their methods for detecting or preventing child sexual abuse material distribution, and an Australian regulator has found their efforts lacking. The ...
Wired

Apple Kills Its Plan to Scan Your Photos for CSAM. Here’s What’s Next

In August 2021, Apple announced a plan to scan photos that users stored in iCloud for child sexual abuse material (CSAM). The tool was meant to be privacy-preserving and allow the company to flag ...
The Next Web

Why experts are worried about Apple’s plan to scan every picture on your iPhone

Last night, Apple made a huge announcement that it’ll be scanning iPhones in the US for Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM). As a part of this initiative, the company is partnering with the government ...
adexchanger

Mediaocean Partners With The Internet Watch Foundation To Report CSAM Content

Brand safety isn’t always cut and dried. An alcohol brand, for instance, might look for content that other brands would instinctively steer clear of. But some media doesn’t leave room for nuance. On ...
Hosted on MSN

Reports indicate a massive uptick in AI-generated CSAM throughout the internet

AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) has been flooding the internet, according to a report by The New York Times. Researchers at organizations like the Internet Watch Foundation and the ...
9to5Mac

Apple details the ways its CSAM detection system is designed to prevent misuse

Apple has published a new document today that offers additional detail on its recently announced child safety features. The company is addressing concerns about the potential for the new CSAM ...
Ars Technica

Nonprofit scrubs illegal content from controversial AI training dataset

After Stanford Internet Observatory researcher David Thiel found links to child sexual abuse materials (CSAM) in an AI training dataset tainting image generators, the controversial dataset was ...
ZDNet

Apple to tune CSAM system to keep one-in-a-trillion false positive deactivation threshold

When Apple announced its plans to tackle child abuse material on its operating systems last week, it said the threshold it set for false positives account disabling would be one in a trillion per year ...
TechCrunch

UK names five projects to get funding for CSAM detection

The U.K. government has named five projects that have scored public funding under a “tech safety” challenge announced in September — when the Home Office said it wanted to encourage the tech industry ...