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hashing
Child Abuse ImageryPartnersTechnology For Good
April 12, 2016

Introduction to Hashing: A Powerful Tool to Detect Child Sex Abuse Imagery Online

Last month, Thorn Digital Defender Del Harvey wrote about Twitter’s use of PhotoDNA, a technology developed by Microsoft that computes hash values of child sexual abuse material (CSAM). The tool applies a unique fingerprint to identify an individual photo to…
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women in tech
PartnersTechnology For Good
March 31, 2016

Women in Tech Are Powerful Digital Defenders of Children

In recognition of International Women’s Day on March 8, 2016, we kicked off the month of March with a focus on the powerful, inspirational and dedicated women in tech who work with Thorn as Digital Defenders to protect children. (more…)
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protecting children online
PartnersTechnology For Good
March 29, 2016

Women in Tech: How a Summer Job Led to a Career Protecting Children Online

As VP of Trust & Safety at Twitter, Del Harvey leads an international team that works to define policy and to ensure user safety and security in the challenging realm of modern social media. She is also a member of…
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machine learning
PartnersTechnology For Good
March 24, 2016

Women in Tech: Applying Machine Learning to Stop Abuse on the Dark Web

The following post was submitted by Rebecca Portnoff, who is a Thorn Research Fellow. Rebecca is also a PhD student at UC Berkeley in Computer Science, specializing in Security and Machine Learning. Her dissertation focuses on using Machine Learning and…
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child safety
PartnersTechnology For Good
March 15, 2016

Women in Tech: Dedicating a Career to Online Child Safety

Einat Clarke is a Senior Counsel at Google, the President of the Technology Coalition, Inc., an industry trade association dedicated to eradicating online child sexual exploitation, and a contributor to Thorn’s Tech Task Force. Her blog post is part of…
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digital defenders
PartnersTechnology For Good
March 8, 2016

Women in Tech Join Digital Defenders to Protect Children

When I graduated from college, I was set on becoming a CMO of a Fortune 100 company.  I believed the private sector had the opportunity to create positive change in the world and that was where I wanted to invest…
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trafficking-and-tech
Child Sex TraffickingPartnersSuccess In the Field
March 3, 2016

Trafficking and Technology: A Cross-Sector Approach

In the fall of 2014, our team went to Phoenix to present to the Arizona Human Trafficking Council. We shared a new tool we had just developed called Spotlight, that leverages machine learning algorithms and insight from officers in the…
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collaborative-tech
Child Sex TraffickingNewsPartnersSuccess In the Field
February 22, 2016

Collaborative Technology Aids Super Bowl Trafficking Sting

On February 4th, I flew out to the San Francisco Bay Area to support our law enforcement partners in Super Bowl sting operations. In addition to other methods, officers used the anti-human trafficking tool we developed with Digital Reasoning, called…
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PartnersSuccess In the FieldTechnology For Good
February 6, 2016

Fighting Child Exploitation Through Intelligent Technology

The following post was submitted by Tim Estes, CEO and Founder of Digital Reasoning, one of our technology partners. Digital Reasoning employs a machine-learning platform that automates the understanding of human communications. In 2000, everyone was starting a business. The…
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Partners
November 18, 2015

Coming Together as a Global Community to Protect Children from Sexual Exploitation

This week, I was honored to join over a hundred guests from more than 41 nations in the United Arab Emirates for the second #WePROTECT Children Online Global Summit.  #WePROTECT was started in 2014 by UK Prime Minister, David Cameron,…
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