Child abuse-tracking tech donated to the world

Friend MTS has donated its digital fingerprint technology to a global effort to tackle child abuse content online.

Netclean and Microsoft have already been working with the International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (ICMEC) to help law enforcement assign digital signatures to illegal photos distributed online.

In March, ICMEC announced it was coordinating the formation of Project Vic, a cloud-based database of these fingerprints that content retrieved in police investigations across the globe can be compared against. The idea is local law enforcement runs the fingerprint software to seek out these markers, saving them time so they can focus on the unidentified material and the victims featured in them.

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