At the Microsoft HQ in Seattle, Bill Harmon, associate general counsel, Microsoft digital crimes unit, presented at the TwC International Media Campus Tour on child sexual exploitation online. While he assessed that the problems we have today with child safety is so much greater than thirty years ago due to technology, he concluded that we “can win this war.”

In 2009, Microsoft — working with Dartmouth College — developed PhotoDNA, a technology that aids in searching, finding, and removing some of the worst images of child sexual exploitations available on the internet. “PhotoDNA is a substitute for the eyeballs that saw photos going through the photoshop printing machines in the 70s”, explained Harmon.

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Source: InfoSecurity