Re: Feedback Request – Embedded Child Protection Solution for Telcos (Academic Research)

[Mel Beckman via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

> I take your point, but he's in the EU, not the US, and I wouldn't be surprised if EU regulators 

Well, he did specifically query NORTH AMERICAN network operators, and never said anything about limiting his market to 
EU. 

 -mel

> On Jun 25, 2025, at 7:32 PM, John Levine via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org> wrote:
>
> It appears that Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org> said:
> > > I'm part of a postgraduate team at Dublin City University working with Chirp, a startup developing real-time, 
> > > embedded child-protection software for
> > telecom operators.
> >
> > The moment you put the point of child protection on the telco you open the telco up to all sorts of liability 
> > lawsuits.  A stunningly bad idea.
>
> I take your point, but he's in the EU, not the US, and I wouldn't be surprised if EU regulators
> expected their telcos to do something about CSAM sent as messages to or from their phones.
>
> There are technical issues, too, like how reliable the fingerprinting is and what the consequences
> of false positives and negatives are, but they're different from the legal issues.
>
> R's,
> John
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