Apple CSAM controversy: Charity says company under-reporting | Technology

The Apple CSAM controversy doesn’t appear to be going away, as a British children’s charity accused the company of under-reporting incidents on its platforms.

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The UK’s National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) pointed to two apparent discrepancies in Apple’s reporting of suspected child sexual abuse materials (CSAM),

The first is the huge gulf between the number of cases reported by Apple and other tech giants, as The Guardian notes.

“In 2023, Apple made just 267 reports of suspected CSAM on its platforms worldwide to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), which is in stark contrast to its big tech peers, with Google reporting more than 1.47m and Meta reporting more than 30.6m, per NCMEC’s annual report.”

“The second is that there were actually more CSAM convictions involving…”