Internet giants block abuse photos - Aftenposten

The two online giants now block up to 100,000 keywords and phrases that can lead to illegal images, reports the BBC.

measure are welcomed by British Prime Minister David Cameron, who in July demanded that Google and Microsoft’s Bing, which a total of 95 percent of interest web searches are taking place, had to do something to stop access to child abuse.

announcement comes ahead of Monday’s summit on web security, where Google, Microsoft and other Internet companies meet at Cameron’s office at Downing Street.

blockage is expanded

restrictions will initially apply only to English-speaking countries, but within six months of the project expanded to 158 other languages.

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- Although society can never eliminate such corruption, we must do everything in our power to protect children from harm, says Google CEO Eric Schmidt stated that the measure in the British newspaper Daily Mail.

Google had 200 employees who have worked for the last three months to identify the appropriate algorithms

– We have fine-tuned search engine to prevent links to child pornography shows up in our results, says Schmidt.

can track down copies

13,000 different searches will result in warnings from Google or charities comes up on the screen and make the applicant aware that sexual abuse of children is illegal.

In addition, Microsoft has developed technology that delivers images that are laid out a unique fingerprint, and now Google has done the same videos. It will mean that the images and videos that are spread on the internet can be tracked and deleted, even if they are copied versions.

– Computers can not distinguish between innocent bathing images of children and abuse, so a person must look at the pictures to determine if they are illegal. When it is done, each image have their own unique fingerprint, writes Schmidt.