The REPHRAIN research centre are pleased to announce to release of “Towards a Framework for Evaluation CSAM Prevention and Detection Tools in the Context of End-to-end encryption Environments: a Case Study”.

Through the Safety Tech Challenge Fund, the UK Government awarded funding to five projects to prototype innovative, automated technologies to help keep children safe in E2EE environments, such as online messaging platforms, while ensuring user privacy is respected.

To enable academic scrutiny, the UK National Research Centre on Privacy, Harm Reduction and Adversarial Influence Online (REPHRAIN) was requested to act as an independent, external evaluator to each of these five projects. To our knowledge, this is the first independent, public evaluation of automated industry tools developed for online child protection.

You can read more about this report on our dedicated page here – the report can be downloaded here.