“Unless you get help through all of this ... basically from looking at what you’ve had, how your past has been and everything else ... you can’t do it on your own. And I feel like that ... the app is a part of the ... structure you put in place to enable you to stop offending and to basically become a better person…” – Protech pilot participant. This episode discusses the pivotal pilot stage of the Protech project, about how it was rolled out in three sites across Europe, and about who the vo...
"We need technical interventions that can work at scale to prevent or make it harder for people to view and access websites and platforms that are carrying images and videos of child sexual abuse.” – Dan Sexton, Chief Technology Officer at the Internet Watch Foundation. Episode 2 of the Protech podcast gives listeners an understanding of the machine-learning tech that is being employed in the project to place barriers in the way of those seeking to view child sexual abuse material on the inte...
Child sexual abuse material is rampant on the internet and efforts to remove the imagery can seem like a drop in the ocean when faced with the sea of criminal content that is being actively viewed and distributed on the open web. This can be devastating for survivors, who are repeatedly victimised every time images of their abuse are shared online. In Episode 1 of the Intervention podcast, we discuss how stopping people from viewing and distributing videos and images of child sexual abu...