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Fighting illegal content

One of the main aims of the Safer Internet Programme is fighting illegal content. Therefore the INHOPE network was established with hotlines being part of the Safer Internet Centres in 26 European countries to receive reports from members of the public who come across illegal content online. In certain situations the hotlines co-operate with law enforcement bodies in order to achieve their objectives.

For increasing the effectiveness of the fight against illegal content the Safer Internet Programme is currently also funding three other projects which aim at helping law enforcement bodies to handle situations related to illegal content online.

INTERPOL - International Child Sexual Exploitation Image Database (ICSEDB)

This new INTERPOL database is operational since March 2009. The aim of the project is the prevention and detection of offences of sexual abuse against children through the identification of victims and abusers. The system can be directly and securely accessed by accredited investigators regardless of their geographical location. Having direct simultaneous access to the database from multiple dedicated cybercrime units around the world will greatly increase the number of images available for analysis, resulting in more victims being identified, a reduction in the number of duplicate investigations and a greater worldwide sharing of information.

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CIRCAMP (COSPOL Internet Related Child Abusive Material Project)

The goal of this project is to establish a thematic network within the European Law Enforcement community in order to facilitate the exchange of information and best practice between countries in Europe, and thereby increase the effectiveness of international police cooperation.
Through these efforts we would be able to reduce duplication within agencies and increase cross border liaison.

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MAPAP

It is widely acknowledged that a huge amount of child abuse material and other harmful contents are distributed using peer-to-peer (p2p) systems. The fact that users choose the files they download on the basis of their names, and that many harmful contents are given innocent names (fakes), makes the risk of facing such content a key issue.

The core objective of this project is to change this situation by providing an accurate content rating and fake detection system usable for user empowerment and content filtering in p2p systems.

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I-Dash

Police forces worldwide are struggling with the ever increasing amount of video collections with child sexual abuse material because of the lack of tools to handle the huge amounts of video data efficiently.

The objectives are the development of an operational system capable of handling thousands of hours of videos potentially containing child sexual abuse images. Furthermore, it aims to establish a model allowing for multi-nation exchange of information on known child sexual abuse video.
It is meant to demonstrate the feasibility of a European database with known child sexual abuse material and a standard for efficient data exchange between the various national police forces.

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FIVES

Police investigations of child sexual abuse cases often face the problem of handling large amounts of seized equipment.

The objective of the FIVES project is to develop novel investigative tools specifically tailored for investigations involving images and videos of child sexual abuse.

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This page was last updated: 03 July 2009