Interpol turns to technology to fight child porn
A Reuters newswire article by Mark Trevelyan, via Yahoo! News, reports that:
Interpol will launch a big push to identify child sex victims and prosecute abusers with the help of special software that can minutely analyze pornographic images, many from the Internet, and spot vital background clues.
Hamish McCulloch, a British investigator at Interpol who specializes in child porn, said police around the world will get access to the technology via a 3.2 million euro image database to be funded by the Group of Eight (G8) leading nations.
He said it should lead to a big rise in the number of countries submitting child porn images to Interpol -- currently fewer than 20 -- and in the number of victims found and rescued.
"Currently investigations tend to focus on trying to seize computers, forensically examine the hard drive and obtain the evidence to prosecute for possession or distribution (of child pornography)," McCulloch told Reuters in an interview.
posted by Fergie @ 9/21/2005 07:13:00 AM
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