Group Technology Coalition, a group of tech companies including Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Twitter, participates in a project to prevent sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children on the Internet. A plan to combat online child sexual abuse) was announced.
The Technology Alliance is a corporate alliance formed in 2006 to prevent sexual exploitation and sexual abuse of children on the Internet. The company is developing technologies to combat child sexual exploitation and abuse. Microsoft, for example, uses a similar image identification technology, PhotoDNA, to help detect images of children’s objects. In addition, the Google Content Safety API was also developed as a tool to find children’s products.
Facebook emphasizes that child sexual exploitation is a problem of the Internet as a whole and is a shared responsibility among technology companies such as social media and messaging services, cloud services, game platforms, device manufacturers, and Internet service providers that will protect children from sexual abuse. It also has five strategies for this.
First is innovation. To promote the development and use of breakthrough technologies that support beyond the industry through the use of a multi-million dollar innovation fund. The second is collective action. Technology companies, governments, and civic groups come together to take a holistic approach to the problem of child sexual abuse and exploitation. For this, an expert forum is held every year.
Third, independent research. Promote online understanding of children’s sexual abuse and exploitation experiences and patterns, and provide funding to End Violence Against Children. Next is information and knowledge sharing. It is necessary to actively share influential information, expertise and knowledge among companies to prevent and curb child sexual abuse and exploitation on the Internet. Lastly, transparency and accountability. It is possible to actively report on child sexual abuse and exploitation across platforms and services, and increase industry-wide accountability and consistency, such as issuing annual status reports.
Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO, said that Project Protect is about bringing together some of the best talent in the technology industry to face serious problems that cannot be solved alone, namely, child exploitation and abuse. He says he is proud to lead this project. Related information can be found here .