Google and Bing will block 100,000 terms linked to abuse ... - The País.com (Spain)

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100,000 Internet terms related to child sexual abuse, according to chairman Eric Schmidt announced the British press. The second reaction is the challenge that British Prime Minister David Cameron, launched before the summer to technology companies to improve their measures to identify sexual crimes on the Web

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receive in his office at Downing Street cable company, to operators and organizations specializing in surveillance of sexual abuse, as BSkyB, TalkTalk, BT, Virgin Media, Google, Microsoft, the National Crime Agency (NSPCC ) and the Internet Watch Foundation to continue in their campaign against sex crimes.

British prime minister’s initiative, taken with skepticism at first, and had a few months ago his first success in getting Facebook withdraw some violent images in their social network and change the Terms of Use of the Web

Google CEO Eric Schmidt explained to Daily Mail that a team of 200 people had been analyzing the form to reach the conclusion that there are 100,000 terms used to locate child pornography. The changes will apply in more than 150 languages.

The initiative begins in English, but will be extended to more than 150 languages ??

Apart from this new initiative, both Google and Bing or Yahoo and warnings displayed on the top of their search results when consultations with any of the 13,000 terms of sexual content, while not illegal.

Google has been working closely with Microsoft to apply the same technology in their search engines, Google and Bing, they have 95% market share in the United States and, more generally, in Europe.

major search engines and technology companies, from Google to Microsoft or Apple always include default image filter programs, but the user can change minor moderate to strict, no problems. These filters have been shown to not solve the problem of acces of children to pornographic material.

“Google and Microsoft have come a long way,” Schmidt said Daily Mail “A recent Google deterrence campaign led to a drop of 20% of people who try to find illegal content, so we know that this kind of action is effective. “

UK hopes that the United States also extend this persecution and to coordinate their police force. Cameron asked the FBI and other U.S. agencies to cooperate with their counterparts in the UK, including the new National Crime Agency.

The British government estimates that 20,000 people are using encrypted and anonymous networks like anonymising service Tor , to communicate. Internet is called hidden, without access to search engines and to that this initiative will not affect at all.

But for now, on the public Internet, when looking at some of those 100,000 terms in Google or Bing, in some of the 150 languages ??that apply, the search engines do not provide results or images.

Previously, Microsoft had developed a technology (PhotoDNA) to embed images of water in pornographic photos, and so trace their distribution. Youtube had done