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| 23.08.2022 | Killeen Couple Each Sentenced to 60 Years in Prison for Sexual Assault of Children and Infants | Attorney General Ken Paxton today announced that Christopher Almaguer, 27, and Sarah Rashelle Almaguer, 27, were each sentenced to 60 years in federal prison for sexually assaulting potentially 25 minors, including multiple infants, as well... |
| 07.06.2022 | Maryland State Police Warn Public Of Online Scam Involving The Sexual Extortion Of Minors | June 7, 2022
(Easton, MD) Maryland State Police remind parents of online safety and to be aware of online scams involving the sexual extortion of minors.
The Maryland State Police have received numerous reports of minors being contacted by ... |
| 07.06.2022 | Maryland State Police Warn Public Of Online Scam Involving The Sexual Extortion Of Minors | June 7, 2022
(Easton, MD) — Maryland State Police remind parents of online safety and to be aware of online scams involving the sexual extortion of minors.
The Maryland State Police have received numerous reports of minors being contacted b... |
| 18.05.2022 | Provincial Resources for Internet Child Exploitation Unit | CANADA, May 18 - Released on May 18, 2022
The Ministry of Corrections, Policing and Public Safety continues to invest in the Internet Child Exploitation (ICE) unit with funding for two additional ICE investigator positions, one in Saskatoon... |
| 13.01.2020 | Microsoft, The Meet Group partner on ‘grooming detection technique’ for messaging apps | Tech giant Microsoft last week announced a new initiative called Project Artemis, a grooming detection technique it developed along with a handful of companies — including New Hope-based The Meet Group, known for gaming and dating apps such... |
| 23.10.2019 | Encryption and Combating Child Exploitation Imagery | Child exploitation images are a horrific problem. Even the most clinical descriptions (such as the 23 sites described in the Freedom Hosting NIT warrant application) turn the stomach and chill the soul. Many individuals and companies, such ... |
| 19.03.2019 | New Data on Sextortion: 124 Additional Public Cases | Content warning: This post contains content that may be upsetting for some readers. Additional warnings are located throughout the document to signal the introduction of disturbing content. Resources for those affected by sextortion are lin... |
| 21.02.2019 | YouTube loses advertisers over “wormhole into pedophilia ring” | Enlarge
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| 08.02.2018 | Commercial Content Moderation And Worker Wellness: Challenges & Opportunities | Last week, Santa Clara University hosted a gathering of tech platform companies to discuss how they actually handle content moderation questions. Many of the participants in the event have written essays about the questions that were discus... |
| 29.01.2018 | Uber Fights Human Trafficking by Training Drivers, Ditches Tabloid Past | Uber is doing its part to prevent human trafficking. Quique Garcia/AFP/Getty Images
Can Uber drivers stop human trafficking?
That’s the idea behind a new initiative announced today by the ride-sharing company. Uber has partnered with the Po... |
| 27.11.2017 | Big Brands Pull Plug on YouTube Over Paedophilia Fears | Two of the world’s best-known brands, Mars and Adidas, are pulling their adverts from YouTube and parent company Google over fears that they were featured on ‘inappropriate’ and ‘exploitative’ content featuring children.
The news comes alon... |
| 08.11.2017 | MPs Increase Pressure on Social Media Firms | This weekend saw MPs amplify their calls for tech firms to become more accountable for online abuse.
The offensive began on Friday 3rd November when a committee from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport announced that they h... |
| 23.10.2017 | Is Hollywood 'Exploiting' Anti-Trafficking Organization To Support SESTA? | We’ve been a bit perplexed about how much momentum SESTA has. As explained, it’s a bill that is called the “Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act” but it has many serious problems that could impact just about any online service, even if they ha... |
| 21.03.2017 | How AI startups and tech giants collaborate to do good deeds | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
AI startups have discovered there’s value to part... |
| 23.11.2016 | Didi Chuxing, the Uber of China, signs up to help find missing children | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing (Didi) is the latest company to embrace AMBER alerts for missing children, following the launch... |
| 23.11.2016 | Didi Chuxing, the Uber of China, signs up to help find missing children | Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing (Didi) is the latest company to embrace AMBER alerts for missing children, following the launch of the system in China back in May with internet behemoth Alibaba.
Above: Didi Chuxing: AMBER Alerts
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| 08.11.2016 | A conversation with 3 local members of hacktivist network Anonymous | Hacktivist network Anonymous threw a party following a blockchain meetup on Friday. Naturally, we showed up.
The party was held at Zeba, a shisha bar in Columbia Heights. Members of Anonymous – many sporting Guy Fawkes masks on their heads ... |
| 23.08.2016 | Why Homeland Security Unleashed an 'Alien Virus' on Silicon Valley | At 5 PM on 25 April 2015, dozens of cell phone users in Mountain View were warned of a bizarre road accident. A satellite had crashed to Earth on the busy Moffett Boulevard, three miles from Google's headquarters, causing gridlock.
Half an ... |
| 09.08.2016 | Court Says Child Porn Clearinghouse Acts As A Government Entity, Cannot Perform 'Private Searches' | A recent decision by the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals reaches two conclusions: one obvious, and one not quite so obvious. |
| 08.06.2016 | France launches terror alert app ahead of Euro 2016 soccer tournament | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
With one of the world’s biggest soccer tournaments about to get underway in France, the French government has launched a new mobile app... |
| 02.02.2016 | This Teddy Bear Could Have Exposed Your Child’s Identity | Are smart toys worth the risk? That’s a question parents are asking themselves these days as they weigh the usefulness and delight that comes from cloud-connected toys, with the potential for them to be turned into spying devices, as was th... |
| 14.10.2015 | Uber drivers to receive AMBER alerts for missing children across the U.S. | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Uber is the latest tech company to introduce AMBE... |
| 14.10.2015 | Uber drivers to receive AMBER alerts for missing children across the U.S. | Uber is the latest tech company to introduce AMBER alerts to help find missing children.
A product of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), AMBER alerts, which have been used in the U.S. since 1996, is a system e... |
| 13.01.2015 | Facebook Will Start Showing Mobile AMBER Alerts To Help Find Missing Kids | Your phone probably already receives AMBER alerts when a kid goes missing in your area. Most smartphones are configured to allow it right out of the box.
But Facebook thinks they can help make the system better — and starting today, they’re... |
| 06.01.2015 | Baroness Joanna Shields: Technology companies must work across borders to protect children from online predators | This article was originally posted on the Tech City UK website.
Everyone agrees that stopping the rise of online child abuse and exploitation is an urgent priority. The big question is: are there more innovative ways to go about it? Coming... |
| 06.01.2015 | Working Across Borders for our Children’s Digital Safety – Baroness Joanna Shields | This article was originally posted on the Tech City UK website.
Baroness Joanna Shields: Technology Companies Must Work Across Borders to Protect Children From Online Predators
Everyone agrees that stopping the rise of online child abuse ... |
| 19.12.2014 | Microsoft adds AMBER missing children alerts to Bing search queries | Google has integrated AMBER alerts into a number of its products, including Search, for a while already. Now, Microsoft has revealed it is integrating the child abduction broadcasts into its Bing search engine.
AMBER alerts have been used i... |
| 06.08.2013 | Where the Emergency Alerts on Your Phone Come From | Screenshots courtesy Lex Berko
Around 10 PM last night, California residents were scared shitless by a never before heard screech that emanated from their cell phones. The culprit? An Amber Alert sent to their phone, notifying them of a kid... |
| 16.06.2013 | Google Pledges $5M To Fight Online Child Exploitation | The Internet has plenty of dark corners, but one of the darkest is surely the growing number of sites that traffic in child pornography. Google, which has no interest in surfacing any of these sites and images, has long worked with numerous... |
| 31.10.2012 | Google Launches Integrated AMBER Alerts Service With The National Center For Missing And Exploited Children | Google has continued its focus on “public service” projects today by announcing a new AMBER alerts project in conjunction with The National Center For Missing And Exploited Children. This comes after the company set up a “Crisis Page” for t... |
| 06.10.2012 | Sex Trafficking On Backpage.com: Much Ado About (Statistically) Nothing | Editor’s note: Julie Ruvolo is a freelance writer and digital editor for the New York Museum of Sex. You can follow her on Twitter.
According to a growing list of religious groups, feminists, celebrities and policy makers, adult classifieds... |
| 13.02.2012 | Reddit: “Jailbait is bad, but pics of dead kids are OK” | In an unexpected watershed moment, one of the last remaining bastions of free speech, Reddit, has banned the posting of “suggestive or sexual content featuring minors.” In one fell swoop Reddit has asserted that it retains moral control ove... |
| 14.01.2011 | Amber Alerts Come to Facebook | Social media presents both challenges and opportunity for those concerned with getting the word out about disasters and crime. The Emergency Broadcast System, for instance, has recently made the leap into mobile. Now, the latest innovation ... |
| 29.10.2008 | Court rules hash analysis is a Fourth Amendment “search” | reader comments 0 with 0 posters participating
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