Google to tackle images of child sexual abuse with search and Youtube changes

Chris Engel 11/20/138:31 PM

"Google is targeting 100,000 terms associated with online child sexual abuse in a move hailed by David Cameron, who will announce a series of measures to tackle the problem at a cyber-summit in Downing Street. The prime minister said that Google and Yahoo had "come a long way" after the internet firms announced a series of initiatives to try to block access to images of child sexual abuse.

"Google's executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, has announced that a 200-strong team has cleaned up Google Search to target 100,000 terms that can be used to locate child sexual abuse images. The changes will soon apply to more than 150 languages. The company is also showing warnings at the top of its search results for 13,000 queries...."

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/nov/18/uk-us-dark-web-online-child-abuse-internet

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