Hacker News with Generative AI: Child Abuse

EU-backed surveillance software for detecting CSAM has flaws,manufacturer admits (ftm.eu)
Controversial non-profit Thorn touts its software as a privacy-friendly way to detect child abuse content. Experts have criticised such tools as potentially leading to mass surveillance – and the technology, while praised by the European Commission, is less reliable than it purports to be, new documents obtained by Follow the Money show.
Australian company BwE scamming customers, abusing children [video] (youtube.com)
Catholic church to excommunicate priests for following new US state law (newsweek.com)
The Catholic Church has issued a warning to its clergy in Washington state: Any priest who complies with a new law requiring the reporting of child abuse confessions to authorities will be excommunicated.
Are porn algorithms feeding a generation of paedophiles – or creating one? (theguardian.com)
More than 850 men a month are arrested for online child abuse offences in England and Wales. They come from every walk of life: teachers, police officers, doctors, TV presenters. And the numbers are rising every year. How did this happen?
The Age of AI Child Abuse Is Here (theatlantic.com)
For maybe the first time, the scale of the problem is being demonstrated in very clear terms.
The FBI is failing to report child sex abuse cases, watchdog finds (apnews.com)
Apple accused of using privacy to excuse ignoring child abuse material on iCloud (appleinsider.com)
Nevada parents wrongfully accused of child abuse file lawsuit against hospital (mynews4.com)