Google and Microsoft will block searches for child abuse

 

Google and Microsoft have agreed to lock in their browsers up to 100 thousand terms related to child abuse with the goal of making it more difficult to find this kind of illegal content on the Internet, as reported by the British press.

In a newspaper article, the CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, confirmed that a dedicated team of 200 people has introduced new algorithms in search engines to ensure that the terms do not introduce these key results are obtained. “These changes have cleaned 100 thousand results for search queries that may be related to the sexual abuse of children, “says Schmidt.

Responsible for Google anticipates that, after being tested in the UK, the locking system will spread to other English-speaking countries and in the next six months, will be translated into other languages 158 Microsoft, Yahoo and Bing operates, has also blocked outcome in their search engines.

Meanwhile, about 13,000 terms related to sexual abuse of children throw warnings about the illegality of this activity and offer users contact support centers. Speaking to the British Prime Minister, David Cameron, called “advance significant “measure taken by Google and Microsoft, which first had refused to censor content, and reminded that if these companies” breached its commitments, “introduce legislation to force. Last July, Cameron asked the two U.S. giants,

Those dominate 95% of the search traffic on the Internet, to redouble their efforts to prevent child pornography and will make sure to invalidate the terms “unequivocally” designed to obtain images and unlawful child. It is expected that representatives from Google and Microsoft, as well as other Internet companies, meet with Cameron in Downing Street to discuss the matter, call Summit for internet security.

organizations child protection have warned however that most abuse images Children are not obtained through internet searches but are in hidden networks of pedophiles. In this sense, Google and Microsoft have agreed to collaborate with the National Agency against the British crime to identify networks that contain this type of illicit images. This agency has also announced it will work with the U.S. FBI to dismantle pedophile networks that communicate with each other and exchange material through encrypted codes.

Google and Microsoft will block searches for child abuse