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UK Authorities Launching Massive Child Abuse Database
mrspoonsi sends news that "Data taken from tens of millions of child abuse photos and videos will shortly be used as part of a new police system to aid investigations into suspected pedophiles across the UK." The Child Abuse Image Database (CAID) will be available to authorities starting December 11th. It's been populated with data seized in earlier investigations. The database assigns a hash to each photograph, so when a new drive full of illegal images is confiscated, it can immediately be plugged in and quickly scanned to see if there are any matches. It will also catalog GPS coordinates from Exif data.
The purpose of CAID is to eliminate the duplication of effort when investigating these photos. Often when storage drives are seized, they contain thousands or millions of images, and dozens of different police departments could end up unknowingly investigating the same victims. Law enforcement liaison officer Johann Hofmann said, "We're looking at 70, 80, up to 90% work load reduction. We're seeing investigations being reduced from months to days."
The purpose of CAID is to eliminate the duplication of effort when investigating these photos. Often when storage drives are seized, they contain thousands or millions of images, and dozens of different police departments could end up unknowingly investigating the same victims. Law enforcement liaison officer Johann Hofmann said, "We're looking at 70, 80, up to 90% work load reduction. We're seeing investigations being reduced from months to days."
the Muhammad story has sources.
What's your source for any bride of Jesus, let alone a child?
Anyone who reads UK newspapers will know what the GP is talking about. This isn't Wikipedia, but here you go
The real "Libtards" are the Libertarians!
In the UK, child sexual abuse has been a tabloid-driven panic-issue for many years. The government is very eager to be seen doing something about it. Not because it's any more common here than elsewhere in the world, but because every time someone gets caught after going undetected for years there's a media field day, which in turn means an investigation into why they weren't caught sooner, and someone has to bear the public's wrath.