Google and Microsoft: stop research in child pornography on the web - RaiNews24

The CEO of the giant web Eric Schmidt announced a new technology that will block a large number of investigations of child pornography on the Internet

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The internal Google data centers

Rome, November 18, 2013

computer giants Google and Microsoft will block over 100,000 commonly used terms to search for images of child pornography on the internet.

In an article published in the British newspaper “The Daily Mail”, the managing director of Google, Erich Schmidt, said that a team of 200 experts has developed new algorithms in search engines that guarantee with the introduction of these keywords, not to get results for this type of research.

“These changes have made it possible to block 100,000 research that can be connected to the sexual abuse of minors,” said Schmidt.

The system, having been tested in the Rhine Kingdom, will be extended in the countries of English and, in the next six months, will be available in 158 languages. Also, if a user searches for any of these terms, in addition to being locked, you are warned of the illegality of such requests and will be advised to contact the service centers.

Speaking to the newspaper, the British Prime Minister, David Cameron, said that the control measures taken by Google and Microsoft (which initially had refused to censor this kind of content) are a significant step forward in the fight against child abuse.

Only last July, Cameron had asked the two corporations that handle 95% of internet traffic, to redouble their efforts to prevent the spread of images of child abuse. Today, representatives of Microsoft, Google and other search engines, will meet with British Prime Minister at Downing Street, to discuss the issue in the Summit on Security for the Internet.

protection organizations for children, however, have warned that most of the images of violence against children are not on the internet, but in the hidden networks created and used by pedophiles. To combat trafficking, the two U.S. giants have decided to work with the Agency for the British crime that, in turn, will work with the FBI to dismantle pornographic sites, including those protected by encrypted codes.