{"id":723,"date":"2021-03-02T11:27:49","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T10:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/02\/its-an-arms-race-the-tech-teams-trying-to-outpace-paedophiles-online\/"},"modified":"2021-03-02T11:27:49","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T10:27:49","slug":"its-an-arms-race-the-tech-teams-trying-to-outpace-paedophiles-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/02\/its-an-arms-race-the-tech-teams-trying-to-outpace-paedophiles-online\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It\u2019s an arms race\u2019: the tech teams trying to outpace paedophiles online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As platforms pivot towards greater encryption, analysts are rushing to finesse child abuse prevention technology<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPredators are often early adopters of technology,\u201d says Sarah Smith, chief technology officer at the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), a UK child abuse hotline. \u201cIt\u2019s an arms race, we have to be constantly horizon-scanning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Smith and her team, based in an unassuming office in Cambridge, are a key link in a chain of experts around the world developing and finessing technology that tracks down paedophiles and removes child abuse images found online.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/mar\/02\/its-an-arms-race-the-tech-teams-trying-to-outpace-paedophiles-online\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/124492e71b93062b80750b9ac7a53e631a5942c3\/0_0_3500_2101\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=0e1cceb07daf83b7feb3473c5f6d2fe4\" title=\"'It\u2019s an arms race\u2019: the tech teams trying to outpace paedophiles online\" \/>As platforms pivot towards greater encryption, analysts are rushing to finesse child abuse prevention technology<br \/>\n\u201cPredators are often early adopters of technology,\u201d says Sarah Smith, chief technology officer at the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), a UK child abuse hotline. \u201cIt\u2019s an arms race, we have to be constantly horizon-scanning.\u201d<br \/>\nSmith and her team, based in an unassuming office in Cambridge, are a key link in a chain of experts around the world developing and finessing technology that tracks down paedophiles and removes child abuse images found online. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As platforms pivot towards greater encryption, analysts are rushing to finesse child abuse prevention technology \u201cPredators are often early adopters of technology,\u201d says Sarah Smith, chief technology officer at the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), a UK child abuse hotline. \u201cIt\u2019s an arms race, we have to be constantly horizon-scanning.\u201d Smith and her team, based in &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/02\/its-an-arms-race-the-tech-teams-trying-to-outpace-paedophiles-online\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;It\u2019s an arms race\u2019: the tech teams trying to outpace paedophiles online<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}