Claim

Kik USES PhotoDNA

Kik partnered with Microsoft to test PhotoDNA for scanning images against known child-abuse-image hashes; the episode is uncertain about whether it remained in use.

Episode
EP 93 — Kik
Origin
Attributed
Confidence
96% (extractor score, not a fact score)
Speaker
Jack Rhysider
Attributed source
Microsoft

Transcript evidence

“In 2015, Kik partnered with Microsoft to test Microsoft’s PhotoDNA service”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 31922–31996

Read the official transcript

Extraction provenance

Model gpt-5.6-luna · prompt 1.5.19 · schema 1.5.19 · 2026-09-13T07:04:45.749306+00:00

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