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Google Develops Software to Rein in Child Sex Predators
April 15, 2008 at 2:51 PM
Child Health News
Google engineers say they have developed a software programme that would help rein in child sex predators.
The software would be able to look for patterns in the abuse images on the web.
The Internet giant has developed the technology for use by the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC).
The programme uses pattern recognition to enable analysts to sort and identify files containing child sex abuse.
Google says it has teamed up with the Centres Technology Coalition Against Child Pornography in order to develop solutions that would make it harder for people to use the web to exploit children or traffic in child pornography.
"You always hope that your work will eventually be used to do some good in the world, and this was an amazing chance to make that hope real," said Google research scientist Shumeet Baluja.
Baluja, who was also the technical leader of the project, said that as more and more predators use the web to ensnare children, "analysts were getting overwhelmed by all of the data they had to sift through".
Since 2002 the NCMEC has pored over 13 million child sex abuse images and videos in an effort to help police identify and rescue children from harm.
In the last year they have looked at five million pictures.
Google says the new tools will enable the Centres analysts to search their systems more quickly and easily as they try to sort and identify files that contain images of child sex abuse victims.
The software would be able to look for patterns in the abuse images on the web.
The Internet giant has developed the technology for use by the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC).
The programme uses pattern recognition to enable analysts to sort and identify files containing child sex abuse.
Google says it has teamed up with the Centres Technology Coalition Against Child Pornography in order to develop solutions that would make it harder for people to use the web to exploit children or traffic in child pornography.
"You always hope that your work will eventually be used to do some good in the world, and this was an amazing chance to make that hope real," said Google research scientist Shumeet Baluja.
Baluja, who was also the technical leader of the project, said that as more and more predators use the web to ensnare children, "analysts were getting overwhelmed by all of the data they had to sift through".
Since 2002 the NCMEC has pored over 13 million child sex abuse images and videos in an effort to help police identify and rescue children from harm.
In the last year they have looked at five million pictures.
Google says the new tools will enable the Centres analysts to search their systems more quickly and easily as they try to sort and identify files that contain images of child sex abuse victims.
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