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The BBC reports that the UK-based Internet Watch Foundation is sharing hash lists with Google, Facebook, and Twitter to prevent the upload of child abuse imagery:
Web giants Google, Facebook and Twitter have joined forces with a British charity in a bid to remove millions of indecent child images from the net. In a UK first, anti-abuse organisation Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) has begun sharing lists of indecent images, identified by unique "hash" codes. Wider use of the photo-tagging system could be a "game changer" in the fight against paedophiles, the charity said. Internet security experts said images on the "darknet" would not be detected.
The IWF, which works to take down indecent images of children, allocates to each picture it finds a "hash" - a unique code, sometimes referred to as a digital finger-print. By sharing "hash lists" of indecent pictures of children, Google, Facebook and Twitter will be able to stop those images from being uploaded to their sites.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 11 2015, @05:02AM
Would there be as much real CP if the drawn and animated stuff was allowed?
Loli and shota are allowed in many countries already. Many of the people who like that type of hentai aren't even attracted to real people at all. Maybe actual pedophiles would take that instead, however.
But it's inconsequential. We need to go after the rapists, not people looking at images.