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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."
Torrent plox?
Just add all Muslim men by default. they seem to treat women like cattle, including little girls.
For the protection of the children you see, they should have a huge government database of file hashes they deem illegal. This year it's for the children, next year it's for enemy's of the state. You wait, you will see...
Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.
I thought the USA already did this and shared the hashes with companies so they can automatically flag things. De we actually not share our list of hashes? Have we finally uncovered something privacy related the government doesn't share?
Let's throw a fucking parade, everyone. The police have discovered a use for technology that makes their work easier and doesn't sound like it will erode any of our civil liberties.
They're worried about DUPLICATION of effort?!? How about putting in some damn effort first. More than a decade and over 1000 girls in just one damn city. All the software tools in the world won't help if you turn them away at the station or refuse to do any of the work for fear of hurting feelings. Spend less on computers and more on prosecutions for those cops who let those girls suffer.
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Maybe they should, you know, NOT launch massive amounts of child abuse, inflicted by database. That sounds pretty bad.
Wait, maybe I parsed this wrong.
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I have a small problem with the phrasing "suspected pedophile". It propagates the view that being a pedophile is a crime, not that child abuse is a crime.
Would they have a database of people "suspected of having high testosterone levels" too?
The risk of innocents being caught in a dragnet is, in my opinion, not justified by the heinousness of abuse. A pedophile (or a father, a much higher risk group) who is innocent is just as innocent as a child. And someone who is guilty is just as guilty whether they're a pedophile or not.
A child, by the way, is a suspected future drug criminal with a quite high risk. Better register all children as suspects too.
Anyhow, there's a technical solution to every technical problem. In this case, a viewer that changes one pixel subtly every time an image is viewed would make hashes like this useless.
Some of the files in question may have been subject to change as they were moved from host to host, an analog to mutations in virii. By analyzing the 'mutations' in the image files, it may be possible to gain some insight into the paths the various iterations of the same image took before being found by law enforcement.
are they gonna put all these members of this cult in it.
the prime minister of canada is a member of it as well.....
The London MET declared the whole of London a possible terrorist zone so that it can use random stop and search powers to stop and search anyone it likes. Trouble is, they don't catch terrorists, mostly they search blacks and don't find an excuse to arrest them.
In Surrey its so bad now, coppers take your fingerprints in the street under threat that if you disobey they'll arrest you for something.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2m0T9zQW0Q
This is just a way they can justify doing a search on any media you have. In practise this box will catalogue everything, not just the pedo images they claim, and will be used for the every expanding police state.
"UK Authorities Assembling World's Largest Collection of Child Porn"
Hopefully they're being at least somewhat smart computing multiple hashes and recording size and resolution of each image.
Because a single hash does not uniquely identify a file, hashes were never designed to perform this role. I imagine this may lead to a few problems due to lazy police running the tool over innocent images then over-reacting on a hash collision.
I'm more worried about the potential abuse this could cause. Someone takes a child abuse photo, attaches some EXIF data to it pointing to a person they don't like, then uploads it anonymously somewhere. Pretty soon the police are beating someone's door down, stealing all of their computers, and otherwise making their life a living hell.
My first thought was "Good, they seem to have a problem with it in the authorities."
My second thought "Crap, they mean a local databse of all that stuff. What are they going to do, copy it off an MP's hard drive?"
Awkward!!!
OK call me old-fashioned, but I totally misread the headline.
I thought this was about general child abuse, not just the sexual subset, which could be a just a small part of overall child abuse. What I was thinking of was things like poor treatment by parents, such as receiving beatings or insufficient food or having to live in a terribly dirty home, all that kind of abuses. The kind of abuse children have to be removed from their home for, placed with foster parents, etc.
In other countries, mostly eliminated in the UK, there are of course also issues such as child labour (children forced to work long hours in dangerous or hazardous conditions), depriving children of access to education (particularly girls in Muslim countries), and other serious and highly widespread forms of abuse.
Not to gloss over sexual abuse, which can be pretty bad as well of course, there's a lot more to "child abuse" than just "sexual child abuse". However equating "child abuse" to "sexual child abuse" makes us forget the other forms of abuse, which I strongly believe are far more widespread than sexual abuse. But maybe those are simply not as sexy, politically.
If they wanted to prosecute peadophiles theye'd open and release the dossier from the 80s.
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"next year it's for enemy's of the state."
Just as well its not France, they would want a database of enemies of the language.
Fortunately for you this website is american, and freedom to mangle the language is implied in the first amendment.
Translation: Child abuse == sexual assault (pedophilia)
The police used to be very big on names and identities. This duplication means either poor administration, or the police don't have the name of the victim.
Headline should read: VIP Paedophile Ring Given Boost With Stolen Data
I would like to post survivors' inputs into this story, but the ones I know personally and have already contacted are still in open-mouthed shock at the audacity of it.
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And, once again, it's not a crime to be a pedophile.
I really wish the British would stop synonymizing pedophile, child molester and a possessor of abuse videos and photos as the same fucking thing, when they're all very different.
Having an attraction isn't a crime, acting on it is.
Of a closet pedophile cop...How long until this DB is hacked too? The UK has been brilliant managing governmental IT projects.
In the UK, the police can arrest you at will.
Having done so, they then have full access to everything - your computer, your phone, your diary, everything.
You get six months in jail if you refuse to hand over any encryption keys.
The police in the UK also for example have been in the practise of filming whoever is entering or leaving the Greenpeace building. Actual police, with actual cameras, recording.
There also recently were scandals where the police were planting long term agents into law-abiding civil protest organizations. As an aside, in a few cases, these men, beng human, were also having relaitonships *and children* with those partners, all of whom then later found out.
This database of images - the software being paid for now to build it can and will be used with a wide range of other photos. Having been wrongfully arrested, because you are a person of interest to such police forces, your hard disks will be scanned. Is this a photo of the head of Greenpeace? a known member of a civil protest organization? and those photos you have will of course all then be added to the database.
Any tool is meaningless in and of itself. What matter is how it is used, and the police forces in the UK are not trustworthy. Any new capabilities they acquire are used to further their current conduct, and it is that conduct which is problematic.
... listing all priests in Britain?
They should create a child abuser database, from which the public has access.
Most importantly it should highlight prominent pedophiles.
For a list of names, The Franklin Cover-Up would be a good place to start.
Political correctness is really just herd psychology pushed by insecure people who desperately seek social conformity.
Deuteronomy 22 28-29 (hebrew).
Old Testament Allows Child Marraige of girls to men.
Feminist cuntries oppose this and have bombed any culture that still is pro-men and anti-feminist.
Feminists NEED to be killed.
Young girls are often very pretty and very nice. Unlike many women.
The FBI's DaLAS System has been doing this for several years now, but with things in addition to child abuse imagery. Since we shared the system with the UK they presumably just copied the relevant parts/ideas.
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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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That they include cases from the Catholic Church in it and clearly designate that employees of the church committed those acts.
UK Authorities making a child abuse database when it's likely that at least a quarter of the people in power are child abusers.
Absolutely fucking stunning!
As I've always said, those that 'think of the children' are usually the ones you need to be wary of.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
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Probably it's emerging that the best predictor for pedophelia is the perps vehemence in proclaiming his religious convictions.
Good! There were some people - even back then - who took the effort to think and adopt wildly unpopular positions like abolitionism and women's rights. They deserve positive recognition, and people who (for example) oppose LGBT rights today deserve to be judged by future generations too.
If you don't like this, then hit the philosophy books and make some difficult decisions. You can't be both right and popular.
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