Ref. Ares(2022)6852338 - 04/10/2022
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR MIGRATION AND HOME AFFAIRS
The Director-General
Brussels
HOME.D.4/AP
Mr Felix Reda
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Subject:
Your application for access to documents – GESTDEM 2022/4500
Dear Mr Reda,
We refer to your email of 8 August 2022 in which you make a request for access to
documents, registered on the same day under the above-mentioned reference number.
You request access to
“all information held by the cabinet of Commissioner Johansson
and/or DG HOME concerning the existence of technologies for the detection of new child
sexual abuse material that has a demonstrated accuracy rate above 90% and/or whose
precision rate can be set at 99.9%. This includes information related to the preparation
of the blog post in questions, including early drafts and discussions thereof”.
All the information and the statistics of the accuracy rate of the technologies included in the
blog post in question, is included in the impact assessment1 where sources are quoted
accordingly:
p. 282 of the Impact Assessment
Annex 8, section 2 of the Impact Assessment.
The information in question can also be found in public sources:
Thorn’s Safer Tool:
How Safer’s detection technology stops the spread of CSAM |
Thorn
Other tools that use classifiers and AI technology to successfully detect new CSAM:
New Technology to Fight Child Exploitation | Meta (fb.com) a
nd Facebook touts
use of artificial intelligence to fight child exploitation (nbcnews.com)
Further to this information, we regret to inform you that the Commission does not hold any
other document that would correspond to the description given in your application. As
specified in Article 2(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, the right of access as defined
in that regulation applies only to existing documents in the possession of the institution.
In accordance with Article 7(2) of Regulation 1049/2001, you are entitled to make a
confirmatory application requesting the Commission to review this position.
Such a confirmatory application should be addressed within 15 working days upon receipt
of this letter to the Secretariat-General of the Commission at the following address:
European Commission
Secretariat-General
1 Commission Staff Working Document Impact Assessment Report accompanying the document Proposal
for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down rules to prevent and combat
child
sexual
abuse,
SWD/2022/209
final,
11
May
2022,
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-
content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex%3A52022SC0209
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
Transparency,
Document
Management
&
Access
to
Documents
(SG.C.1)
BERL 7/076
B-1049 Brussels
or by email to:
xxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx
Yours sincerely,
Monique PARIAT
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Electronically signed on 03/10/2022 18:11 (UTC+02) in accordance with Article 11 of Commission Decision (EU) 2021/2121
