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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 […]

Something’s wrong with the war on sex trafficking

Post author By Randall
Post date May 31, 2019
Categories In bad password, badpassword, business, eff, exploitation, Facebook, fosta, fosta-sesta, Google, Internet, Law Enforcement, opinion, palantir, Privacy, safer, Security, services, sex, sex trafficking, spotlight, Tech, thorn, Twitter

[ad_1] Thorn offers internet companies its content moderation tool “Safer,” and for law enforcement, its separate data-mining and user-profiling tool “Spotlight.” Both use data sources and AI to automate policing of sex content. Of Thorn’s 31 nonprofit partners, 27 target adults and vow to abolish consensual sex work under the banner of saving children from […]