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Child exploitation watchdog says Meta encryption led to sharp decrease in tips and reports
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children’s annual report said the organization received about 29.2 million reports of suspected exploitation in 2024 — a drop of roughly 19% compared with the year before.
The top U.S. watchdog monitoring child exploitation online says that a sharp drop in reports from tech companies is primarily due to Meta and its embrace of end-to-end encryption. Souras said that NCMEC’s analytics suggest that Meta’s drop in reports was almost entirely due to instituting end-to-end encryption on Facebook and Messenger. “We feel like this is the year that we were seeing what happens when companies default encrypt on social media platforms where there are kids and offenders — we lose reports.”
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