Jun 12, 2020 14:00:00

Google, Facebook, Microsoft and others announce 5 plans to eradicate child pornography from the Internet in cooperation

A group of technology companies including Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Twitter,

Technology Coalition, is a project to prevent sexual abuse and exploitation of children on the Internet `` Project Protect: A plan to combat online child sexual abuse'' (Plans to combat sexual abuse of children on the Internet) '.

The Technology Coalition Announces Project Protect – Technology Coalition
https://www.technologycoalition.org/2020/05/28/a-plan-to-combat-online-child-sexual-abuse/

Facebook Joins Industry Effort to Fight Child Exploitation Online-About Facebook
https://about.fb.com/news/2020/06/fighting-child-exploitation-online/

Technology Coalition is a corporate coalition formed in 2006 to combat child sexual exploitation and abuse on the Internet.

The company they belong to is developing technology to eradicate child sexual exploitation and sexual abuse. For example, Microsoft is using

PhotoDNA, a similar image identification technology, to detect and report child pornographic images. Google's Content Safety API was also developed as a tool to find child pornography.

Google develops a tool that uses AI to automatically find ``illegal porn content that exploits children'' on the net-GIGAZINE

Facebook said, “Sexual exploitation of children is a problem across the internet, and protecting children from sexual abuse is something we technology companies like social media and messaging services, cloud services, gaming platforms, device makers, internet service providers, and so on. Shared the responsibility, and cites five initiatives called 'Project Protect.'

◆1: Technological innovation
Accelerate the development and use of breakthrough technologies that support cross-industry approaches by leveraging millions of dollars in innovation funds.

◆ 2: Group action
A holistic approach to the issue of sexual abuse and exploitation of children, gathered by technology companies, governments and civil society. To that end, we hold a forum for experts every year.

◆3: Independent research
Fund End Violence Against Children , an organization that conducts research to promote online prevention, prevention and deterrence of children's experiences and patterns of sexual abuse and exploitation.

◆ 4: Sharing information and knowledge
Prevent and deter child sexual abuse and sexual exploitation on the Internet by proactively sharing influential information, expertise and knowledge between companies.

◆5: Transparency and accountability
Actively report content on child sexual abuse/exploitation across platforms and services and publish annual progress reports to increase accountability and consistency across the industry.

Sheryl Sandberg, COO, Facebook, said, “Project Protect is bringing together the best talent in the technology industry to tackle a serious problem that cannot be solved alone: child exploitation and abuse. We are proud to take the lead in this initiative in the hope that it will lead to a real change that protects our people.'