We released the Scoping the evaluation of CSAM prevention and detection tools in the context of End-to-End encryption environment document for public consultation (document can be found here) – this community consultation closed on Friday 08 April 2022.

The evaluation criteria document describes the scoping stage of REPHRAIN’s independent evaluation of Proof-of-Concept tools for preventing and detecting child sexual abuse media (CSAM) within end-to-end encryption (E2EE) environments that are currently being developed within five different projects funded by the Safety Tech Challenge Fund.
Given the tensions that arise between protecting vulnerable users and protecting user privacy at large, the key steps in REPHRAIN’s evaluation process are (1) to seek input from the community and (2) to publicly publish all results, whilst ensuring that academic rigour and objectivity remain the core of our work, and to inform future directions in this area.

We welcomed constructive comments on the following:

• Positive points on the evaluation criteria – What did you like about the evaluation criteria?
• What is missing from the evaluation criteria and why?
• Should anything be removed from the evaluation criteria and why?
• How could the evaluation criteria be improved? Please include examples and references.

Thank you to all for their contributions and participation in making this consultation a success – please keep an eye on our channels for further news!