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Committee hears calls for proactive tech intervention as encryption and platforms complicate CSAM enforcement
Summary
Witnesses and members debated the role of social media platforms, encryption and age-assurance laws in preventing online child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Experts urged proactive detection by platforms and raised concerns about end-to-end encryption enabling abuse to spread.
Members of the subcommittee discussed how commercial platforms, encryption and varied state laws affect the proliferation of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and human-trafficking recruitment.
Camille Cooper urged technology companies to ‘‘proactively look for [CSAM] and then remove it,’’ telling the committee that ‘‘proactive detection is probably the most significant action that technology companies could take’’ under current U.S. law, which requires…
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