Sexual abuse among the children and child pornography are rampant across several global countries and to fight this menace, world’s leading IT giant, Microsoft has revamped PhotoDNA, a free intelligent software that helps in detecting and removing explicit images of sexually abused children on the internet.
According to Microsoft, nearly 720,000 photographs of child pornography are being uploaded everyday. PhotoDNA will help the social networking sites and internet service providers (ISP) to block all the sexually abusive pictures. Even though the PhotoDNA was launched a couple of years ago, Microsoft had been facing several technical glitches, leading to the temporary withdrawal of its services.
PhotoDNA is a cloud service that converts each image passing through it into numerical values. This let’s the software to detect any image that has been altered to bypass the detection. Social networking giants like Facebook and Twitter too have been using such softwares for the last few years but this software from Microsoft will now be available even for smaller firms and websites.
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