Category: child exploitation

Facebook, Google and others adopt guidelines intended to fight child abuse

Post author By Randall
Post date March 5, 2020
Categories In abuse, Australia, canada, child exploitation, child safety, department of justice, doj, gear, grooming, guidelines, homeland security, Internet, new zealand, online, Politics, principles, Security, sexual abuse, Tech, Uk, voluntary

[ad_1] The document, Voluntary Principles to Counter Online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, includes 11 principles. It covers themes like targeting online grooming, preventing searches of child sexual abuse material and responding to evolving threats. According to a statement published by the DOJ, the principles are “intended to have sufficient flexibility to ensure effective implementation.” […]

Facebook releases tools to flag harmful content on GitHub

Post author By Randall
Post date August 2, 2019
Categories In algorithm, business, child exploitation, child safety, Facebook, finger print, github, hash, Internet, open source, pdq, phash, photo matching, photos, remove, Security, Tech, terrorist, tmk+pdqf, tomorrow, video matching, Videos, violence

[ad_1] Currently, when Facebook finds offensive photos and videos, it removes them and its algorithms assign a hash, or a digital fingerprint. Its technology can then use those hashes to determine whether two files are the same or similar, even without the original image or video. So when multiple copies of, say, terrorist videos appear […]