Home Office to fund use of AI to help catch dark web paedophiles
by Jamie Grierson Home affairs correspondent from Technology | The Guardian on (#4QGEC)
Money will go towards testing tools including voice analysis on child abuse image database
Artificial intelligence could be used to help catch paedophiles operating on the dark web, the Home Office has announced.
The government has pledged to spend more money on the child abuse image database, which since 2014 has allowed police and other law enforcement agencies to search seized computers and other devices for indecent images of children quickly, against a record of 14m images, to help identify victims.
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