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Google Builds Tools To Fight Child Porn
David Utter
Staff Writer
2008-04-15
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An ongoing effort with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) by Google produced video tools for use in finding exploitative images and videos.
Google research scientist Shumeet Baluja described the search giant's work on the company blog in developing these tools. Through 2007, Baluja and co-workers crafted tools to help NCMEC find child predators.
"The tools we provided will aid in organizing and indexing NCMEC's information so that analysts can both deal with new images and videos more efficiently and also reference historical material more effectively," said Baluja.
NCMEC said in a statement the group and law enforcement agent partners have reviewed over 13 million images and videos to help rescue victims and identify criminals.
"Criminals are using cutting edge technology to commit their crimes of child sexual exploitation, and in fighting to solve those crimes and keep children safe, we must do the same," said Ernie Allen, president and CEO of NCMEC.
The tools come from Google's ongoing work in video and image search. This research-stage technology helped NCMEC handle the multitude of such content arriving at their CyberTipline and from police agencies.
"We hope the tools we've built for NCMEC will help its analysts make the important and often time-sensitive work of investigating child predators faster and more efficient," Baluja said.
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David Utter is a business and technology writer for SecurityProNews and WebProNews.
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