Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter and Yahoo have officially announced that they will use an automated system to detect and block child pornography images.
The five companies are working with the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), which will provide access to the child pornography images database it has collected.
Using a technology που αναπτύχθηκε από τεχνικούς της Google, σε συνεργασία με τη Microsoft, οι εταιρείες θα πρέπει θα σκανάρουν το ψηφιακό αποτύπωμα κάθε image και να συγκρίνουν τα αποτελέσματα με την βάση δεδομένων της IWF.
So they will be able to prevent users from uploading and sharing such photos.
The digital footprint, commonly referred to as hash or hash value, is unique to each image and has also been previously used by the aforementioned companies to allow copyright owners to report misuse of their content on the Web.
Now, the same technology used by RIAA and MPAA will be utilized to better combat users who daily flood the Web with images of battered children.
At the moment, only five companies have expressed their interest in it application of the system in question, but soon others will probably join.
Along with the five companies we mentioned as members of the Internet Watch Foundation are Apple, AOL, Cisco, Dropbox, GoDaddy, OpenDNS, Sophos, Symantec, Tumblr, and many more.
It should be noted, however, that this technique will only show results on the surface web, rather than on Dark Net, which is the place where the problem starts.
So one could say that this move by the big online companies is probably an act of impressing to get the credit, as the problem will not be solved.
