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Telegram Joins Child Safety Scheme
- The Telegram messenger app has partnered with the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) to proactively prevent child sexual abuse imagery from being spread in public parts of its platform.
- Previously, encrypted apps like Telegram and Discord were used by criminals to peddle illegal content, including child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Telegram has now agreed to work with IWF to stop the spread of CSAM.
- Telegram had previously refused to join official schemes citing their strict privacy stance against the sharing of confidential data with government entities and resisted other governments’ attempts to weaken end-to-end encryption or provide access to people’s messages.
- For the first time, Telegram will use tools and data from the UK’s Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) along with its own to detect, disrupt, remove, and block child sexual abuse imagery.
- Telegram will use a range of IWF services, including taking IWF “hashes” to spot when criminal content is being shared in public parts of the site to instantly block it.
- Telegram has stated that when reported, child abuse images are usually processed within one hour.
- The IWF has confirmed thousands of reports of child sexual abuse imagery on Telegram including category A imagery, the most severe kinds of child sexual abuse, and imagery involving children younger than two years old.
- Telegram removes hundreds of thousands of child abuse materials each month, relying on reports, proactive moderation which includes AI, machine learning and hash-matching.
- Telegram had previously refused to comply with demands by Russia’s FSB Federal Security Service which wanted access to some messages.
- Dubai-based Telegram is said to be the most popular instant messaging application in parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa.
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