Tom Farrell of SafeToNet, who worked for 19 years in law enforcement, told the BBC the app was not intended to be a tool to report users to the police: “People who are voluntarily looking to stop themselves seeing child sexual abuse material quite clearly wouldn’t use such a solution if they believe that it was going to report them to law enforcement.”
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