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Dec052019Anna Borgström
NetClean Report 2019
The NetClean Report 2019, the fifth of its kind is now available. This year the report is based on two different enquiries – one with law enforcement and one with businesses. The results, summarised in the report, help us understand the nature of child sexual abuse crime, how it is developing and what we must do to further ensure that we fight it as well as we can.
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Oct082019Anna Borgström
Children and the digital world – a meeting at the UN
Last week I was invited to speak at the UN Headquarters in New York, where the Working Group for Child Online Safety met for the launch of the new Broadband Commission report. The launch was hosted by Permanent Mission of Sweden, Childhood Foundation USA, Broadband Commission and End Violence Against Children.
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Jul092019Anna Borgström
The Interpol World Conference
Last week I attended the third edition of the Interpol World conference in Singapore. It’s an event that brings together private and public sectors to foster collaboration to counter future security and policing challenges.
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May142019Christian Berg
Christian Berg: The main challenge is victim identification
in Business, TechnologyIn the NetClean Report 2018 we looked at a relatively new technology called Deepfakes; AI technology, which is used to swap one face for another in moving imagery. Here, Christian Berg, founder of NetClean, elaborates on challenges that this technology presents, and what might prevent it from being widely used in the production of child sexual abuse material.
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May032019Anna Borgström
Notes about the Broadband Commission Working Group
in Business, TechnologyLast week I was invited as a member of the Working Group for Child Online Safety, to attend the ITU/UNESCO Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development annual Spring meeting in Silicon Valley.
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Feb112019NetClean
Using crawling and hashing technologies to find child sexual abuse material – The Internet Watch Foundation
In our series on technologies that are used to stop child sexual abuse, we have written about how they work and what they are used for. Following our blogs on web crawlers and hash matching, this post looks at how the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) uses these technologies.
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Jan232019NetClean
New index makes it possible to measure responses to SDG 16.2 – but detection of child sexual abuse material is missing
This new benchmarking index, developed by The Economist’s Intelligence Unit, scores 40 different countries across the world.
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Jan112019NetClean
Benchmarking Index on the response to child sexual abuse and exploitation
in BusinessNext week, Wednesday 16 January, a Benchmarking Index designed to identify best practices towards bringing child sexual abuse to an end will be launched. NetClean CEO Anna Borgström welcomed this initiative at the pre-launch at UN Headquarters…
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Sep282018NetClean
The power of technology – report from the Microsoft INHOPE conference
in Business, TechnologyOver the past two days NetClean has been on location at the Microsoft Head Quarters outside Seattle, to participate in an INHOPE Fundraising and Awareness-raising summit.
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Sep112018Anna Borgström
Business engagement is key to meeting UN’s goal to end exploitation of children
In 2015, world leaders signed up to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The targets also specifically look at the welfare of children: End abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all forms of violence and torture against children (16.2).
This is how businesses are key to meeting those goals.
