Image Recognition
A new tool called Take It Down promises to remove explicit pictures that young people have put on the internet before they were 18 years old. Without uploading any actual images and staying private, users of the site can create a digital “fingerprint” of the image. Technology companies that take part in the program then remove the images from their websites. So far, only Meta’s Facebook and Instagram and another site called Yubo have joined. NCMEC said it has seen a 35 percent increase in the number of reports of internet abuse of children from 2020 to 2021.