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Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis (QFR Responses)

Testimony

Questioner: Thom Tillis

Harm: Child sexual exploitationHarm: Financial sextortionDesign feature: Direct MessagingInitiative: Encryption
Q. · Question

Thom Tillis

A. · Response

Respondent not recorded

QuestionTillis presses on whether Meta, controlling both the sending and receiving app, could technically intercept inappropriate images at those points despite end-to-end encryption.

ResponseMeta declines to directly confirm or deny that it could technically intercept images in transit, instead reiterating its on-device (client-side) nudity-detection feature and stating it has deliberately not built "client-side scanning" technology, which it argues would be exploitable by bad actors and rights-infringing.