Neutral Citation Number: 2023:DHC:2806
cast any mandatory obligation upon an SSMI to deploy automated
tools and only an endeavour is to be made towards adopting any
measures.
f.
Application of tools to remove content has been discussed by
the Supreme Court in In Re: Prajwala Letter dated 18.02.2015
Videos of Sexual Violence and Recommendations, S.M.W. (Crl.)
No. 3 of 2015, but this has been limited to Child Sexual Abuse
Material (CSAM). India has entered into an Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) with the National Centre for Missing and
Exploited Children (NCMEC) for effectively combating the menace
of CSAM content with reports being sent to the National Crime
Records Bureau (NCRB) and the Ministry of Home Affairs. For the
purposes of preventing CSAM content, automated flagging through
hash-matching and Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based tools enables
Google to act quickly and accurately to enforce its policies and rules.
However,
while
cognition
by
an
AI/ML
(Artificial
Intelligence/Machine Learning) tool of an image on the theme of
“explicit content with a child subject” is useful to combat CSAM, a
similar determination of “explicit content with an adult female
subject” may not prove to be useful in any manner in identifying
NCII. The factor of “consent” which is an essential ingredient for
categorization of NCII cannot be detected by automated tools.
g.
Other automated tools such as pattern recognition or AV
matching are deployed for limited purposes and, thus, they cannot be
applied indiscriminately to content of third-parties on any other
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Digitally Signed
By:SHAZAAD ZAKIR
Signing Date:26.04.2023
17:19:50
W.P.(CRL) 1505/2021
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