Tools in the Database Using Audio AI

Access Data Group

Quin-C is a digital investigation software solution that provides a customizable UI to allow advanced data vizualisation, processing and analysis.

Access Data Group

FTK is a database driven solution that processes and indexes large amounts of data up-front to allow efficient filtering and searching. Users interact with FTK via a web interface which allows them to conduct computer forensic investigations. The product provides file filtering, search functionality and access to remote systems on the network as well as helps law enforcement, corporate security and IT professionals locate, analyze and evaluate the evidentiary value of files, folders and computers

Aiba AI

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.

Amazon

Rekognition Image is an image recognition service that detects objects, scenes, and faces; extracts text; recognizes celebrities; and identifies inappropriate content in images. It also allows you to search and compare faces. Rekognition Image is based on the same deep learning technology developed by Amazon's computer vision scientists to analyze billions of images daily for Prime Photos. This service only requires users to pay for the number of images, or minutes of video, being analyzed and the face data being stored for facial recognition_ There are no minimum fees or upfront commitmenim. Rekognition Video is a video recognition service that extracts motion-based context from stored or live-stream videos and allows them to be analysed. It detects activities; understands the movement of people in frame: and recognizes objects, celebrities, and inappropriate content in videos stored in Amazon S3 and live video streams from Acuity. Rekognition Video also detects persons and tracks them through the video even when their faces are not visible, or as the whole person might go in and out of the scene_ For example r this could be used in an application that sends a real time notification when someone delivers a package to your door. Rekognition Video allows you also to index metadata, like objects, activities, scene, celebrities, and faces to simply video search. With Amazon Rekognition, you only pay for the number of images, or minutes of video, you analyze and the face data you store for facial recognition. There are no minimum fees or upfront commitments.

Belkasoft Evidence Center

Belkasoft Evidence Center is an all-in-one forensic solution for acquiring, locating, extracting, and analyzing digital evidence stored inside computers and mobile devices, RAM and cloud. The tool kit extracts digital evidence from multiple sources by analysing hard drives, drive images, cloud, memory dumps, iOS, Blackberry and Android backups. Graykey, UFED, OFB, Elcomsoft, JTAG md chip-off dumps. Evidence Centre analyses the dat:a source and lays ouc the most forensically important artefacts for an investigator to review.

BlueBear

LACE enables investigators to extract more visual data and efficiently categorize vast amounts of image and video data from confiscated devices using zero false positive visual matching, dramatically reducing (typical 90% case reduction) the time and resources required to bring a case to court. LACE is compatible with international standards for sharing metadata and hash signatures like ICSE, ProjectVic md UK-CAID. LACE Standalone Carver is software used for carving pictures and videos from any digital forensically sound manner. The LACE FORENSIC CARVER recognizes over 180 file types covering image, video, text documents, archive, and database files. Using this light tool, forensic experts will be able to extract evidence and import it using the JSON standard in to all the various tools they choose to use to analyse and review the evidence.

CameraForensics

CameraForensics is an online portal allowing users to search for other images on the internet taken with a particular camera to support victim identification investigations. This tool also supports searching geographically for similar and identical images and for various metadata elements. All with the intent of helping investigators link covert and overt (public) personas on the internet. The tool is available via an online user interface and also via a number of products such as Griffeye Analyze, or as a fully integrated solution for agency or country-level databases (via API).

Child Rescue Coalition

Child Rescue Coalition is a partnership of child exploitation investigators, police officers, digital forensic experts. prosecutors, child welfare agencies, and corporate and private philanthropy who work together to apprehend and convict abusers of children, rescue those in harm's way, and importantly, seek to prevent abuse from happening in the first place. At its core is technology that identifies, monitors, and ranks the online criminal behavior of child predators on peer-to-peer file-sharing and chat networks.

Child Rescue Coalition

Neula provides an automated application for locating deleted child abuse content on digital devices.The recovery of deleted files is one of the greatest challenges to effectively prosecuting the abusers of children, many of whom eliminate evidence by deleting large quantities of contraband over time. Forensic analysts can sometimes locate and reconstruct a small percentage of the offending files, but this process is extremely painstaking and time-consuming. Neula provides better insight into the true extent of an individual's criminal behavior, specifically the extent to which they pose a present or future risk to children

Child Rescue Coalition

Automating the handling of evidence –including chat logs, data and videos – for live streaming abuse cases. Because mobile applications are often used to share CSAM and groom children, this solution will also help collect data against suspects with a sexual interest in children.

Clearview AI

Clearview AI acts as a search engine of publicly available images – now more than ten billion -- to support investigative and identification processes by providing for highly accurate facial recognition across all demographic groups. Similar to other search engines, which pull and compile publicly available data from across the Internet into an easily searchable universe, Clearview AI compiles only publicly available images from across the Internet into a proprietary image database to be used in combination with Clearview AI's facial recognition technology. When a Clearview AI user uploads an image, Clearview AI’s proprietary technology processes the image and returns links to publicly available images that contain faces similar to the person pictured in the uploaded image.

Crisp

Crisp delivers complete intelligence for Trust & Safety and Policy teams on the individuals and groups manipulating social media, video sharing, gaming, dating, review, and other specialty platforms by providing: Crip infiltrates bad actors "from the outside in" across the surface, deep, and dark web to gather intelligence. The AI uses the information to predict what they will do, so platforms have actionable intelligence to prevent child endangerment.

Cybertip Canada

Cleanfeed Canada blocks customer access to known non-Canadian websites that are hosting child pornography to reduce Canadian's exposure to child abuse images and create a disincentive for those who access and distribute child pornography.

Cybertip Canada

Project Arachnid is a platform for reducing the availability of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) which includes crawling the internet for known CSAM using digital fingerprints as well as providing an API for industry members to improve upon and accelerate the detection of this harmful material on their own networks.

Cybertip Canada

Rather than waiting for Project Arachnid to detect material and send a notice, industry can use Shield by Project Arachnid to quickly detect known CSAM on their service, which will, in turn, speed up its removal. Industry members that do not wish to interact directly with Shield by Project Arachnid can register their service/domain with the Canadian Centre to have any notices sent directly to them instead of being sent to their hosting provider. Other industries, such as filtering providers, can download real-time lists of URLs that are believed to currently contain CSAM for filtering purposes.

Dartmouth College

eGlyph is a robust-hashing algorithm that can identify previously tagged images,video, and audio. eGlyph extends photoDNA which operates only on images.

DeafKidz International

Interactive, accessible digital platform to help deaf children stay safe from online abuse and exploitation. Through educational games, children will learn to protect themselves from online risks, e.g. exploring what an inappropriate chat conversation might look like, the warning signs of abusers.

Eckerd Connect

Using a predictive analytics model that builds assessments after amassing historical data, Eckerd used RSF to identify the children who could only be returned to their parents with a heightened level of scrutiny by caseworkers.

EOKM and Web-IQ

HashCheckServer is a tool for hosting providers to prevent the uploading of known child sexual exploitation material. To prevent the uploading of known child sexual exploitation material, hosting parties needed to be part of the solution as they provide one of the gateways to publishing CSAM. Based on this knowledge, EOKM took the initiative to help hosting parties to prevent the uploading of known CSAM and to identify existing material on their servers so that it can be deleted. Following this initiative, EOKM asked Web-IQ to develop software that allows hosting parties to check whether an image appears in the police’s database of known CSAM.

Europol

The Europol Platform for Experts (EPE) is a secure, collaborative web platform for specialists in a variety of law enforcement areas.

Exchange Initiative

TraffickCam allows anyone with a smartphone to fight sex trafficking when they travel by uploading photos of hotel rooms to a law enforcement database. Photos uploaded to the free TraffickCam app are added to an enormous database of hotel room images. Federal, state and local law enforcement securely submit photos of hotel rooms used in the advertisement of sex trafficking victims to TraffickCam. Features such as patterns in the carpeting, furniture, room accessories and window views are matched against the database of traveler images to provide law enforcement with a list of potential hotels where the photo may have been taken to identify location of victims.

Facebook

Camera Vision is a machine learning tool that identifies images that contain both nudity and a child.

Freedom Signal

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.

Global Emancipation Network

Global Emancipation Network is excited to announce the latest counter-trafficking tool in our arsenal: Artemis. We teamed up with our friends at Splunk, Accenture, and Graphistry to produce a first-of-its-kind trafficking content classifier. Artemis is a proactive, automated solution for counter-human trafficking stakeholders to increase efficiency in investigations and disruptions by identifying high-risk establishments, individuals, and content. Our initial pilot focused on the illicit massage industry, categorizing massage businesses based on customer activity, staffing, location, services offered, imagery, and disciplinary actions. Using this data and advanced analytics, we created risk scores and tiers for targeted action.

Global Emancipation Network

Global Emancipation Network grants Minerva access to organizations with valid counter-trafficking missions in order to host and explore millions of trafficking-related data records and use customized search, alerting, geo-location and other platform capabilities. Using Splunk Enterprise and third-party integrated technologies, Minerva protects case-sensitive information and monitors usage patterns to help keep user information private, safe and secure. Leading public, private and nonprofit organizations have already been accepted to the platform as early users. Minerva is equipped with data-processing capabilities to extract and organize information from a variety of data sources. Capabilities include: Advertisement analysis: Analyzes advertisements from the deep and open web, where most trafficking cases originate, and extracts data such as user, location, account and other identifying information. Image processing tools: Processes images of victims to reduce the time users spend analyzing photographs and manually linking them to advertisements. Minerva integrates image analysis tools to tag photographs with characteristics to expedite database search, and reverse image search to identify similar images. Text analysis tools and natural language processing: Extracts text in images from advertisements and flags correlations with missing persons reports and other valuable information. Multi-tenant system informing trend analysis: Allows all Minerva users to store their information securely on the same database at the same time, enabling secure, multi-agency collaboration on shared investigations.

Google

The Content Safety API sorts through many images and prioritizes the most likely child sexual abuse material (CSAM) content for review. The classifier can target content that has not been previously confined as CSAM.

Google/Youtube

CSAI Match is used to surface potential child sexual abuse images (CSAI) for YouTube uploads as well as partner submissions.

Griffeye

Analyze DI allows users to import, process and review complex information as well as pre-categorise known data and correlate metadata with open sources on the internet.

Griffeye

Analyze Collaboration Server is a central repository for storing and sharing information. Analyze Collaboration Server Enterprise enables organizations to store and access all the relevant material they have ever collected. The software facilitates image and video processing via a custom user interface, allowing investigators to work with a central store of case data. The Griffeye AI is made up of two core solutions: The CSA classifier, which has been trained on real CSA case data, and the Object classifier, which can detect various objects and details in images.

Hubstream

Hubstream lntelligence is a customizable web application for understanding and taking appropriate action on investigative data. Data from online and off-line sources becomes integrated with a user's overall intelligence capability. Through smart linking, modern visualization and analytic techniques, as well as actionable dashboards, users can more quickly drive investigative leads through mission-critical workflows. The software helps drive operations and triage process national and international case referrals, victim identification workflows, and automated intelligence gathering from open source and proprietary intelligence.

Hubstream

Hubstream Intelligence Fabric is an automation and data sharing service that powers national and international collaboration and distribution of mission-critical data sets. The service uses scalable and secure cloud technologies to allow massive scale collaboration and fast communication of changes to data sets used by forensics investigators. It is used internationally to track hundreds of millions of data points and is used by tens of thousands of users.

Hunch.ly

Hunchly is a web capture tool that automatically collects, documents, and annotates every web page you visit to create a transparent audit trail for online investigations.

IBM i2

IBM i2 Analyst's Notebook is a visual analysis tool that helps turn data into intelligence. The solution provides features such as connected network visualizations, social network analysis, and geospatial or temporal views to help users uncover hidden connections and patterns in data. These insights aid in identifying and disrupting criminal, cyber and fraudulent threats.

IBM i2

i2 iBridge connects to select enterprise databases with search/query capabilities to return analysis-ready data. i2 information Exchange for Analysis Search for Analyst's Notebook connects to/searches multiple sources at once to retrieve analysis-ready data.

International Association of Internet Hotlines (INHOPE)

The ESCAPE project, funded by End Violence Against Children (EVAC) represents INHOPE's vision to put an eco-system in place ensuring that every industry stakeholder and each member of the public around the globe has the option and awareness to report child sexual abuse material (CSAM) encountered online. Developing automation and intelligence tools for faster classification of CSAM reporting. CSAM will be removed as soon as possible, preventing further circulation and re-victimisation of children.

Internet Watch Foundation (IWF)

The Internet Watch Foundation's URL List is a database of known child sextral abuse material (CSAM) sites to assist with blocking and filtering.

Internet Watch Foundation (IWF)

The Internet Watch Foundation's Hash List is a hash database of known child sexual abuse material (CSAM) available for service providers to automatically match known images before they appear on a service and remove illegal images already on services.

Internet Watch Foundation (IWF)

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) and NetSweeper

The Internet Watch Foundation and Netsweeper Hash List is a collaboration between the two organisations to block and filter child sexual abuse material (CSAM) on the internet. No primary market. Nesweeper is taking hashes and sending suspected URLs to IWF.

Interpol

Our International Child Sexual Exploitation (ICSE) image and video database is an intelligence and investigative tool, which allows specialized investigators to share data on cases of child sexual abuse. Using image and video comparison software, investigators are instantly able to make connections between victims, abusers and places. The database avoids duplication of effort and saves precious time by letting investigators know whether a series of images has already been discovered or identified in another country, or whether it has similar features to other images. It also allows specialized investigators from more than 64 countries to exchange information and share data with their colleagues across the world. By analysing the digital, visual and audio content of photographs and videos, victim identification experts can retrieve clues, identify any overlap in cases and combine their efforts to locate victims of child sexual abuse.

Interpol

INTERPOL will bring the most advanced technology to investigators of online CSEA through its new DevOps Group Project. The initiative will facilitate research and development by an expert group of investigators, non-governmental organisations, academia, and information technology companies, and extend solutions to specialised officers worldwide via INTERPOL’s secure channels. Headquartered in France, this project has a global reach.

Interpol, Inspectoratul General AL Politiei, ZiuZ Visual Intelligence, NCIS Norway

Project CPORT is funded by the European Union. It is a 2-year project that started in Jan 2023. The CPORT portal allows law enforcement agencies to access ICCAM – a database used by national hotlines to process and exchange reports of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) submitted by the public worldwide. The ICCAM platform is hosted by INTERPOL and is an important channel into INTERPOL’s international child sexual exploitation database and list of known domains disseminating severe abuse material (IWOL).

Krunam

Krunam provides breakthrough technology that identifies and classifies previously unknown CSAM images and video at scale. Our CSAM classifier protects your online community, your employees, your brand’s reputation, and, last but not least, millions of children around the world.

Luxan

Luxand's technology detects facial features quickly and reliably. The SOK processes an image, detect-s human faces within it, and returns the coordinates of 70 facial feature points including eyes, eye contours, eyebrows, Iip contours, nose tip, and so on.

Magnet Forensics

Magnet Forensic's AXIOM tool set uses Al, automation, advanced searching techniques, modern data visualization and more to help investigative teams find digital evidence and understand the story it is telling.

Maltego

Maltego is an interactive data mining tool that renders directed graphs for link analysis. The tool is used in online investigations for finding relationships between pieces of information from various sources located on the Internet.

MICRO SYSTEMATION

XRY is a purpose built software based solution set complete with all the necessary tools for recovering data from mobile devices in a forensically secure manner. The software is delivered through four primary platforms: MSAB Office, MSAB Field, MSAB Kiosk and MSAB Tablet. MSAB Office is the all-purpose forensic system from MSAB, offering the entire XRY product solution in a single package. With MSAB Office you can go deeper into a mobile device to recover vital data with a choice of Logical, Physical, Cloud, PinPoint and Drone recovery tools for all supported devices. The Office kit works on a PC to produce a secure forensic report containing dat extractions from mobile handsets. MSAB Office allows investigators to access alI possible methods to recover data from a mobile device through XAMN Spotlight, or perform deeper analysis which can be done with XAMI\ Horizon. For organisations who wish to perform digital forensics out of the office environment MSAB Field is a field kit that utilises XRY software, XAMN Spotlight for laptops with deeper analysis performed using XAMN Horizon. For a turnkey forensic solution MSAB Kiosk and MSAB Tablet (touch screen version) are all inclusive hardware and software solutions designed for first responders where mobile data recovery is only one part of the job. These products utilise custom built XRY software and are co1nplete hard\vare solutions with all the tools necessary for recovering data from mobile devices in a forensically secure manner.

Microsoft

PhotoDNA for Video builds on PhotoDNA technology, bringing all the benefits of PhotoDNA to the video environment.

Microsoft

PhotoDNA Cloud Service enables businesses to protect their assets, interests, and customers by autornaticuliy detecting and reporting the distribution of child sexual exploitation and abuse images.

NetClean

NetClein ProActive works similarly to an anti-virus program but instead of detecting a virus, ProActive detects images and videos that law enforcement agencies have classified as child sexual abuse material.