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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."

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  1. This is a complete farce by Idimmu+Xul · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If they wanted to prosecute peadophiles theye'd open and release the dossier from the 80s.

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  2. She's a witch! by pigsycyberbully · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The U.K. is a child abuse state. In the 70s they were sending children to known paedophiles in what they called "children's homes" they were taking children away from their parents for no other reason than being absent from school only the pretty ones of course. You can find pictures on the Internet of Edward Heath, on his boat with children and another politician and a well-known policeman. There are also pictures of Edward Heath naked on his boat with children. Cyril Smith MP would invite himself into these "children's homes" to abuse children. The British government set up a child abuse ring in Northern Ireland in "children's homes" to entrap dissidents. They created child abuse on an industrial scale in Wales, and one in Cornwall and two in Devon.
    Paedophilia in the U.K. establishment makes the Internet look like small time in comparison. The U.K. media love hysteria and the spy agencies love using it to spy on everybody.
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