Screenshot from the Microsoft FAQ on PhotoDNA which reads: The PhotoDNA Cloud Service provides an API which we recommend all customers use to submit reports to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). Alternatively, customers may choose to report directly to NCMEC. Customers based outside the USA will need to self-determine other reporting requirements based on local law. To help ensure that the PhotoDNA Cloud Service is used solely for the purposes of preventing the spread of child sexual abuse content and supporting related investigations, customers of the PhotoDNA Cloud Service authorize Microsoft to take steps to monitor and audit their usage of the PhotoDNA Cloud Service. Customers authorize Microsoft to provide aggregate reports to NCMEC that summarize the number of images (matched to signatures of known child pornography images) a customer uploaded on to the PhotoDNA Cloud Service. By using the PhotoDNA Cloud Service, the customer understands that such reports do not relieve them of any legal requirements that may arise during their use of the PhotoDNA Cloud Service, including, but not limited to, any legal obligation a customer has to directly file NCMEC reports. For more information, please refer to the PhotoDNA Cloud Service Terms of Use.

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   ophiocephalic 🐍 (ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 17:42:41 JST ophiocephalic 🐍

   Those considering the use of the PhotoDNA surveillance process in the fediverse are advised to inform themselves on it first. It doesn't just detect "positives", it can also auto-report them to authorities. Implementing it could turn this network into an automated police-state snitching system. Admins who do not choose auto-reporting may be legally obligated to manually report positives.

   Also (independently verified and officially contradicted), PhotoDNA is utilized not just to detect CSAM, but also "terrorist and violent extremist content". So who decides what constitutes this content? Why, the private unaccountable black box which is Microsoft Corporation, that shining beacon of privacy-respect to which a hash of every image uploaded to and federated across enabled instances would be sent. Microsoft indicates the data can be utilized for facial recognition and "AI" ingestion as well.

   Do they - or will they - rate advocacy of Palestinian equality and Kurdish feminism as extremist, as governments they do business with would demand? Do they or will they accept the inputs of oil and pipeline corporations in determining what constitutes terrorism? How will they expand the parameters of disallowed sexual deviance if Trump wins the election next year?

   Understand that this is already happening. Elements are in the Mastodon Github Issues calling for the addition of PhotoDNA right now. The Pixelfed project may also be adding it very soon. If that is true, antiauthoritarian instances should consider the feasibility of defederation from Pixelfed altogether.

   For all those considering this: Stop. Please. All the "report" issued by the Facebook-mafia describes is the fediverse - and in fact, mostly its evil twin, the defediverse - just as it existed last month, last year, years before most on here had ever heard of it. The purpose of their influence operation is scare everyone into turning the fediverse into the kind of policed and surveilled space suitable to Mark Zuckerberg.

   Microsoft FAQ on PhotoDNA:
   https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/PhotoDNA/FAQ

   Microsoft Digital Safety Content Report, indicating use of PhotoDNA to detect extremism:
   https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/corporate-responsibility/digital-safety-content-report

   Technical analysis of the PhotoDNA process:
   https://hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?archives/931-PhotoDNA-and-Limitations.html

   UN report referencing use of PhotoDNA to detect terrorism:
   https://www.un.org/counterterrorism/sites/www.un.org.counterterrorism/files/countering-terrorism-online-with-ai-uncct-unicri-report-web.pdf

   Transcript of 2018 US Senate hearing on terrorism and social media, referencing use of PhotoDNA:
   https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-115shrg31316/html/CHRG-115shrg31316.htm

   Journalism indicating use of PhotoDNA to detect extremism:
   https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/06/a-tool-to-delete-beheading-videos-before-they-even-appear-online/488105/
   https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/when-hatred-goes-viral-inside-social-medias-efforts-to-combat-terrorism/

   Wikipedia pages:
   PhotoDNA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhotoDNA
   Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Internet_Forum_to_Counter_Terrorism

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