| Purpose | Organization | Tool/project (Click to open) 👆 | Country of Origin | Target group/intended user | Crime Phase | Website | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) | Potential perpetrators | An automated device that detects potential offenders and refers them to support (e.g. self-help programmes) through the Lucy Faithfull Foundation. | |||||
Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) | Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) platforms | IWF has a project to develop chatbot technology to engage with individuals searching for CSAM, encouraging them to seek help to change. IWF’s chatbot will be deployed in a targeted manner on platforms known by IWF to be used by individuals seeking or at risk of accessing CSAM and engage with them in order to signpost to LFF resources. | |||||
Thorn | Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) platforms | Thorn runs the country’s most extensive online deterrence program, communicating directly with people searching for CSAM, disrupting their sense of anonymity and encouraging them to seek help. By suggesting help resources, we aim to change behavior and increase accountability. We are constantly testing messaging, identifying the best tactics to reach and persuade specific sub-groups, and capturing aggregate data to inform future research. | |||||
Aiba AI | Social mediaChildren | Amanda is a proactive safety platform designed to protect children in social environments by detecting grooming and making accurate profiling of age and gender. Amanda uses key stroke dynamics and metadata from chats to determine the gender and age group of users. By analyzing writing style, Amanda can identify if users are who they claim to be. Amanda also analyzes messages using methods such as stylometry, behavioral patterns, text, and image to continuously assess the risk of the conversation. This analysis results in a continuous risk score that enables real-time prioritization of potentially dangerous conversations. | |||||
Population Foundation of India | Children | Equipping adolescents with tools, information, and resources to identify and report online CSEA in India, using an artificially intelligent chatbot. | |||||
SafeToNet | Children | SafeToNet is pioneering technology that educates children “in-the-moment” as they use their device. It is a safeguarding assistant that helps them become responsible and safe digital citizens. Its power lies in a smart keyboard that detects risks in real-time. It steers children away from trouble by filtering harmful outgoing messages before they can be sent and any damage can be done. SafeToNet helps prevent sexting, bullying, abuse and aggression. | |||||
Swansea University | Law enforcement | Tools based on integrating AI/Linguistics that enable law enforcement to spot online grooming content in real-time. The project will impart specialist knowledge through a learning portal and chatbot to strengthen professionals’ abilities to shield children from online grooming. | |||||
Thorn | Social media | What you should know about this new anti-grooming technique Technology is a powerful tool—one we can decide to use to keep children safe online. At Thorn, we believe in building a world where children can interact with technology and remain safe, curious, and happy. Building that world will take a variety of solutions, and working together with partners like Microsoft, Roblox, and The Meet Group we’ve recently taken another step forward. You may have heard it called Project Artemis. While this is a term often associated with the tool, it was actually originally intended to only be used as a codename for internal purposes. To avoid confusion we won’t refer to this new anti-grooming tool as Project Artemis moving forward. But that certainly doesn’t make it any less significant: This is a first-of-its-kind technique that can detect the online grooming of children, helping organizations to disrupt and report it when and where it happens. | |||||
Freedom Signal | Law enforcement | Freedom Signal is an online platform to help advocates develop ongoing relationships with through texting. We enable direct service organizations to send targeted text-based outreach to potential victims identified through web scraping. When a potential victim replies, it enables advocates to build trust with vulnerable populations in acute crisis. Freedom Signal’s outreach technology was designed by software engineers and survivors of online sex trafficking to address the specific needs of this population, while ensuring a safe, direct channel of communication. |
