The battle against child pornography is now being fought with new technology and the support of some of Silicon Valley's biggest companies. Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Twitter are working with the UK's Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) to implement a new system that will help detect and block images of child pornography online.
IWF, a charitable foundation, has introduced a new technology that enables it to tag images of sexual abuse with distinct hashes — essentially codes that act like a digital fingerprint. The hash is generated by an algorithm; once assigned to an image, it's unique to it, making it easy to identify a specific image against a list of offending hashes. The IWF keeps a record of all the hashes, which it has...
Source: The Verge - Tech Posts http://ift.tt/1J0jfRt
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