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There have been a couple of interesting stories recently. The first one is Jess Philips claim that the govt has developed technology to stop children sharing nude images of themselves.
Looking into it, the tech does exist and there is one smartphone called an HMD Fuse, that has it installed by default. Other phones do not have it installed as a default, but they could do, if the govt ordered them to do so. Jess Phillips argument is that the govt is too scared to tell the manufacturers to do this.
For any parents out there, this should be good news, because these self generated images are the most commonly shared form of iioc. Unfortunately you cannot just purchase the technology as an app, because it has to be built into the phones operating system, so it can not be added to existing phones. That is a big drawback.
Second is the Project Intercept campaign that has been run by LFF. Apparently, it has issued 70 million warnings for searching or trying to access iioc over the last two years.
Apart from highlighting the huge scale of the problem, what really caught my eye was the claim that it can deter people from having conversations with children online. However it not clear how it does this, because many chats are encrypted.
It would be interesting to know more about how this works, because in theory it could stop someone from talking to a police decoy at a very early stage, for example as soon as the decoy mentioned their age.
Looking into it, the tech does exist and there is one smartphone called an HMD Fuse, that has it installed by default. Other phones do not have it installed as a default, but they could do, if the govt ordered them to do so. Jess Phillips argument is that the govt is too scared to tell the manufacturers to do this.
For any parents out there, this should be good news, because these self generated images are the most commonly shared form of iioc. Unfortunately you cannot just purchase the technology as an app, because it has to be built into the phones operating system, so it can not be added to existing phones. That is a big drawback.
Second is the Project Intercept campaign that has been run by LFF. Apparently, it has issued 70 million warnings for searching or trying to access iioc over the last two years.
Apart from highlighting the huge scale of the problem, what really caught my eye was the claim that it can deter people from having conversations with children online. However it not clear how it does this, because many chats are encrypted.
It would be interesting to know more about how this works, because in theory it could stop someone from talking to a police decoy at a very early stage, for example as soon as the decoy mentioned their age.
