A new software program from Google promises to help in the fight against child pornography. It is designed to track child sex predators by searching for patterns in images of abuse on the net.
Created for the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), this is a program that was originally designed to block copyrighted videos but is being used to help in the much needed protection of children.
Pattern recognition will be used to assist analysts to sift out the abusers and their aim is to make it much more difficult, if not impossible, for them to use the internet for these purposes. This is a mammoth task. In just six years, NCMEC have had over 13 million child sex images and videos to search through in their bid to identify and rescue these children in danger.
The incidence is increasing too, as the last year alone has seen 5 million pictures that have come to light, but it is hoped the new use of this technology will make their job quicker and easier. Pattern recognition will pick up on regular images throughout the bank of pictures and make it quicker and easier to find these children and bring their abusers to justice.
Paedophiles are abusing this technology to further their vile trade and justify what they do – it is only right that they are fought with better, more advanced technology to wipe this trade out completely and protect future generations of children from this abuse.
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