Is admins also not obligated to report such content on our servers to the authorities?
Is there an IP attached to the uploader or something?
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Is admins also not obligated to report such content on our servers to the authorities?
Is there an IP attached to the uploader or something?
I don't know. It depends on your jurisdiction. However this is an automated tool and most detected images will be false positives. Requirements for reporting are necessary for validated CSAM but IANAL.
The IP is not visible from the object storage. I do store the OS path, so one would need to trace that to the pict-rs ID, and from the to the lemmy post id, and from there to the user.
Plus the obvious hiding behind a VPN, which you would be out of your mind not to use if you were doing something this terrible. Or can VPNs snitch in these situations? Anyone know?
The authorities could issue a subpoena against the VPN provider, but that would depend on jurisdiction and maybe even depend on the info a VPN provider actually keeps of the user.
That’s the reason I use Mullvad, they were recently forced to hand over all user data, and it confirmed they legitimately store nothing about the user