CANADIAN CENTRE FOR CHILD PROTECTION

Canadian Centre for Child Protection calls on technology companies to do more to reduce child sexual abuse material online

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Friday, July 12, 2019
Sex crimes, Canadian Centre for Child Protection, Child pornography, Crime, Kik Messenger, Abuse, Articles, Sexual abuse, Human sexuality

WINNIPEG, July 11, 2019 /CNW/ - Every 12 hours the Canadian Centre for Child Protection (Canadian Centre) detects 10,824 new images of child sexual abuse online through Project Arachnid, an automated web crawler and platform designed to detect child sexual abuse images on the internet.

Key Points: 
  • WINNIPEG, July 11, 2019 /CNW/ - Every 12 hours the Canadian Centre for Child Protection (Canadian Centre) detects 10,824 new images of child sexual abuse online through Project Arachnid, an automated web crawler and platform designed to detect child sexual abuse images on the internet.
  • In light of the growing online availability of child sexual abuse imagery, the Canadian Centre is calling on industry to take action against thisglobal, social epidemic.
  • The rapid growth of online platforms that encourage content sharing has made the distribution of child sexual abuse material even easier than ever.
  • "Current practices to tackle the removal of child sexual abuse images are not working - more needs to be done by industry to detect and expeditiously remove child sexual abuse images.

Canadian Centre for Child Protection calls on technology companies to do more to reduce child sexual abuse material online

Retrieved on: 
Thursday, July 11, 2019
Sex crimes, Canadian Centre for Child Protection, Child pornography, Crime, Kik Messenger, Abuse, Articles, Sexual abuse, Human sexuality

WINNIPEG, July 11, 2019 /CNW/ - Every 12 hours the Canadian Centre for Child Protection (Canadian Centre) detects 10,824 new images of child sexual abuse online through Project Arachnid, an automated web crawler and platform designed to detect child sexual abuse images on the internet.

Key Points: 
  • WINNIPEG, July 11, 2019 /CNW/ - Every 12 hours the Canadian Centre for Child Protection (Canadian Centre) detects 10,824 new images of child sexual abuse online through Project Arachnid, an automated web crawler and platform designed to detect child sexual abuse images on the internet.
  • In light of the growing online availability of child sexual abuse imagery, the Canadian Centre is calling on industry to take action against thisglobal, social epidemic.
  • The rapid growth of online platforms that encourage content sharing has made the distribution of child sexual abuse material even easier than ever.
  • "Current practices to tackle the removal of child sexual abuse images are not working - more needs to be done by industry to detect and expeditiously remove child sexual abuse images.