Safer, Thorn’s flagship software product, was launched in 2018. Backed by Microsoft’s PhotoDNA technology and with technical support from Amazon Web Services, Safer is designed to detect child abuse by matching hash values of pictures or videos uploaded by users with a database of millions of known CSAM images.

I don’t really understand how this works. Are the hash values like meta data? Is there a way to maintain privacy but also check for illegal material?

I remember when Google glasses came out, people got assaulted for wearing them

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/san-francisco-woman-says-she-was-attacked-for-wearing-google-glass/

Her Facebook post 💀

“OMG so you’ll never believe this but… I got verbally and physically assaulted and robbed last night in the city, had things thrown at me because of some ---- Google Glass haters,” Slocum posted to Facebook.