Category: child safety

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.” […]

New Mexico AG sues Google over alleged child privacy violations (updated)

Post author By Randall
Post date February 20, 2020
Categories In attorney general, business, child privacy, child safety, chromebooks, coppa, Data Privacy, g suite, gear, Google, google education, hector balderas, Internet, lawsuit, new mexico, Security, Tech

[ad_1] According to Balderas, Google gathers location data, browsing and search histories, contacts, voice recordings, passwords and more, from children of all ages, without giving parents the ability to limit or review the data collection. The lawsuit also claims that until 2014, Google fed this data to its advertising business and that Google monitors teachers […]

Microsoft releases a free tool to fight online child abuse

Post author By Randall
Post date January 9, 2020
Categories In chat, child pornography, child safety, exploitation, grooming, Internet, Microsoft, moderators, Predators, project artemis, Security, sex, sex trafficking, Tech, thorn, tomorrow

[ad_1] Project Artemis reviews text-based conversations and evaluates whether they could be considered grooming. It assigns a rating, and companies can use those ratings to flag conversations for review by human moderators. The project began in November 2018 at a Microsoft “360 Cross-Industry Hackathon.” Since then, Microsoft, The Meet Group, Roblox, Kik, Thorn and others […]

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 […]