Facebook and Microsoft team up to fight child exploitation
Facebook and Microsoft has teamed up with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) in implementing Microsoft’s PhotoDNA software to track down and remove known child pornographic images from the internet.
Today marks a significant milestone in the ongoing fight against the abuse of Internet technology for the heinous sexual victimization of the most innocent in our society. As you may have read in the New York Times, Facebook is joining Microsoft in the National Center for Missing and Exploited Childrens PhotoDNA program to combat child pornography. NCMECs program, using image-matching technology created by Microsoft Research in collaboration with Dartmouth College, gives online service providers an effective tool to take more proactive action to stop the distribution of known images of child sexual abuse online.
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