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 developed by Google technicians, in collaboration with Microsoft, companies will have to scan the digital footprint of each image and compare the results with the IWF database.
This way they can prevent users from uploading and sharing such photos.
The digital fingerprint, commonly referred to as a hash, is unique to each image and has also been used in the past by the aforementioned companies to allow copyright owners to report misuse of content.menu them 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.
Μαζί με τις πέντε εταιρείες που αναφέραμε σαν μέλη της Internet Watch Foundation, είναι και η Apple, η AOL, η Cisco, η Dropbox, η GoDaddy, η OpenDNS, η Sophos, η Symantec, η Tumblr, και πολλές άλλες.
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.
