The Philippines was named the world’s top source of online child sexual exploitation content in a 2020 study. Read more at straitstimes.com.
MANILA – Inside an unmarked building in a Manila business district, a war is being waged 24/7 against dark and mostly hidden crimes – the online sexual abuse and exploitation of children.
The Philippines was named the world’s top source of online child sexual exploitation content in a 2020 study by the International Justice Mission, a United States-based non-governmental organisation working against sex trafficking and exploitation. But data privacy laws in the Philippines limit what Internet service providers can access – they can see a user’s search activity, but are not allowed to monitor individual users or their communications.
The Britain-based Internet Watch Foundation , a technology-led child protection group, said abused children and criminals were often in different parts of the world. The company built its own cybersecurity group, which came up with a method to screen for child sexual abuse material without violating data privacy laws. But it needed a way to detect the offensive material.
Mr Thomas said blocking can “protect the victims of child sexual abuse from further victimisation, protect Internet users from seeing such images and prevent paedophiles from accessing this content online”.
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