• t3rmit3@beehaw.org
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    3 days ago

    Yes, but does the law require removing similar content, or just removal of that image?

    Reading the act itself, the law requires a site to:

    (A) remove the intimate visual depiction; and

    (B) make reasonable efforts to identify and remove any known identical copies of such depiction

    So under the plain wording, similar images aren’t covered, only identical, and you only have to make a “reasonable effort” to do so, you don’t actually have to be successful in doing so. There’s nothing here that indicates perceptual hashing is required in order to meet this standard.

    And all of that aside- even perceptual hashes are not that burdensome to generate.