Google is going to start using a database of thousands of pornographic images and videos of children to block people from searching them.
The BBC reports that "digital fingerprints" of known child sex abuse photographs, identified and compiled by a UK charity called the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), will be used to generate flags that prevent browsers from accessing them.
The IWF has the sole purpose of tackling child sexual abuse online and its team has manually identified the pictures and flagged them as harmful. The organisation says it "uses intelligence to actively seek out child sexual abuse content", and also researches and analyses trends in the area. A further measure is a national hotline service for the public to report alarming imagery, while it also provides the "Online Child Sexual Abuse Reporting Portal" to countries without such a mechanism.
On Wednesday and Thursday UK Prime Minister David Cameron announced Google's technology at the "We Protect Children Online" global summit. The technology is set to be rolled out to other internet search engines: Microsoft and Mozilla are apparently also going to apply restrictions into their web browsers.
The UK government has also created a new offence to stop paedophiles soliciting explicit material from children, in the form of selfies, for instance. The law change in England and Wales, the BBC explains, will close a loophole that has allowed people to escape prosecution. ..Continued.. by Joshua Barrie
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