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May142019Christian Berg
Christian Berg: The main challenge is victim identification
inIn 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
inLast 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
inIn 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
inThis 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
inNext 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
inOver 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
inIn 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).
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May152018Anna Borgström
Become a frontrunner in the next phase of digitalisation
inNetClean’s Anna Borgström attended an event hosted by Telia Company, where business representatives and academics shared their thoughts on how to become a frontrunner in the next phase of digitalisation.
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Apr112018Guest Writer
Mats Odell, Financial Coalition: “Technical developments give hope”
inTrafficking, which includes child sexual abuse material, is the world’s third largest and most profitable organised crime. Financial coalitions across the world have however managed to ensure that the ability to pay for this crime through legitimate transaction channels has in the main ceased.
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Mar282018Guest Writer
Mats Granryd, GSMA: “Blocking child sexual abuse content is common sense”
inMats Granryd, GSMA: All organisations and businesses within the telecoms industry are aware of the problem of child sexual abuse content, and the industry is addressing it in many different ways.