
Ref. Ares(2022)1032717 - 11/02/2022
Dublin Mission Ylva Johansson 7-8 February, 2022
Overall objective:
Continue fact finding and awareness raising ahead of CSA proposal end March.
Further develop points of shared interest with Minister McEntee
Outline agenda, narrative and progress on Migration Pact
Meeting Google safety engineering centre – February 8th
Representative of Google presented company’s content moderation policy abased on 4 r’s -
remove, reduce, raise, reward. More specifically child sexual abuse online is tackled through
detection, reporting, deterrence and collaboration. Technologies used include both hashing and
algorithms. They elaborated on the approach to age identification and collaboration with
specialists to avoid ethnicity bias and on the efforts to ensure wellbeing of reviewers. During
the discussion participants noted the need for a legal certainty when it comes to access to data
to train the AI and to enable exchange of data with other companies.
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