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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 four 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.

More about ICSEDB

Completed projects

The Safer Internet Programme has also funded in the past projects such as CIRCAMP that aimed 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. MAPAP was also a project funded in the past, aiming to provide an accurate content rating and fake detection system usable for user empowerment and content filtering in p2p systems. i-Dash aimed to support the development of an operational system capable of handling thousands of hours of videos potentially containing child sexual abuse images.

See full list of completed projects