Facebook Coorperates With NY Attorney General To Prevent Child Pornography
Today, New York Attorney General Cuomo announced a new initiative with Facebook to “eliminate thousands of images of child pornography”. Facebook was already blocking child pornography, however this new database aims to increase protection against the issue. Other social networking sites have not effectively protected against child pornography, including Tagged.com who Cuomo claims has had lapses with protection against such images.
So how does this database function? Here’s how the release describes the technology:
This groundbreaking initiative is based on a database of hash values, which are the equivalent of digital fingerprints.
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