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periodically the various forces tackling CSAM release images which are ENTIRELY SFW, and are purely of a jersey, a backpack, a location, a tea setting, and ask people to tell them things: Was this available in Belgium? Did you ever see this in a second hand shop? Do you recognise the logo on this bag?

Information inside images is useful for this kind of struggle to identify victims of crime.



Sounds a bit more productive than Wordle. How can we get involved?



For any Australians here, there is also https://www.accce.gov.au/what-we-do/trace-an-object - I hope there are similar sites for other regions too.


Don't region lock yourself - abuse investigations in Europe or Australia may be from abuse in a different jurisdiction. Alternatively, a gift given from an Australian family member to a European could be a bit of information that helps an investigation rule out or close in on a potential abuser.


This seems like the perfect job/challenge for those GeoGuesser pros


I tried helping with that once, but after looking at a few images, I really felt like throwing up.

I'm not built for this.




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