<div>Silicon Valley giants Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and Twitter are working with Britain's Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) to implement a new system that will help detect and block images of child pornography online.<br /><br />IWF, a charitable foundation, has introduced a new technology that enables it to tag images of sexual abuse with distinct hashes -- sort of codes that act like a digital fingerprint, The Verge reported.<br /><br />Once a hash is assigned to an image, it's unique to it, making it easy to identify a specific image. The IWF keeps a record of all the hashes, which it has only shared with the five tech companies so far, but plans to roll out to others soon.<br /><br />Once the system is implemented, any image that is uploaded to Facebook, Twitter or any other participating website is scanned.<br /><br />If the image has previously been tagged by the IWF, the system will detect its hash and automatically prevent it from being uploaded -- and thus from being shared.<br /><br />Google has long scanned the images that pass through Gmail for child pornography. Now, the joint support of the tech giants should help widen the net.<br /><br /></div>
<div>Silicon Valley giants Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and Twitter are working with Britain's Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) to implement a new system that will help detect and block images of child pornography online.<br /><br />IWF, a charitable foundation, has introduced a new technology that enables it to tag images of sexual abuse with distinct hashes -- sort of codes that act like a digital fingerprint, The Verge reported.<br /><br />Once a hash is assigned to an image, it's unique to it, making it easy to identify a specific image. The IWF keeps a record of all the hashes, which it has only shared with the five tech companies so far, but plans to roll out to others soon.<br /><br />Once the system is implemented, any image that is uploaded to Facebook, Twitter or any other participating website is scanned.<br /><br />If the image has previously been tagged by the IWF, the system will detect its hash and automatically prevent it from being uploaded -- and thus from being shared.<br /><br />Google has long scanned the images that pass through Gmail for child pornography. Now, the joint support of the tech giants should help widen the net.<br /><br /></div>