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| Child Advocacy: Now, a spy software to identify online Pedophiles | Posted on Thursday, May 28 @ 19:02:26 CEST 
A computer program that can identify
paedophiles, who pretend to be children on the Internet, is being
developed by scientists at Lancaster University.
By analysing language and syntax used online, the new technology can
reveal if an adult is masquerading as a child as part of the victim
“grooming” process.
The scheme, known as Project Isis, will also be able to keep track
of secret code words used by pedophiles as file names for child
pornography.
“The main technique is something called authorship attribution.
Research has been done which indicates that there are differences in
how people of a particular age group write, the Telegraph quoted
Professor Awais Rashid, of Lancaster University, as saying.
“You can distinguish when someone is 25 when they are claiming to be 14, for example.
“The project uses a lot of artificial intelligence and a lot of
algorithms. We are using language analysis tools to identify someone
who is masquerading as a child, and therefore identify people who may
be a risk to children.
“We are looking at being able to monitor traffic in file-sharing
networks to try to identify core distributors, who are of interest to
law enforcement agencies because they have access to children and are
preparing photographs of these children in abusive situations.
“Pedophiles use very specific ways of marking these files and searching for them.
“To the untrained eye they can look like innocent searches but with
our analysis you can isolate them and study how they change,” Rashid
added.
A first prototype system has already being devised and is being tested on non-sensitive data.
The next step of the three-year project will be to use the software
on real-life pedophile material provided by police and other agencies.
If it proves effective, Project Isis could raise Internet privacy
concerns. For it to work in practice, it would require a wide range of
Internet sites such as chat rooms and peer-to-peer networks to be
monitored for tell-tale paedophile language.
“We are setting up a stakeholder ethics group of internet service
providers, users and other groups who may have concerns about the
ethics of monitoring,” Rashid said. (ANI) |
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