For years, we’ve been concerned about the online proliferation
of what’s called “child pornography.” It’s more accurately
described as “sexual assaults on children.” Photographic and
video evidence of these crimes are uploaded to the Internet, re-
victimizing kids again and again. Unfortunately, the Internet
has increased the demand for these kinds of crimes against kids.
Tens of millions of these files exist online. We’ve written new
laws to reduce crimes against kids, including a 2010 law that
puts stronger penalties in place for posting videos or images of
children being attacked. Attorney General McKenna this week
congratulated Facebook for deploying a powerful new program,
developed by Microsoft, to combat terrible crimes against kids.
The technology is described today on the New York Times
Gagetwise blog: "Microsoft says it has refined a technology it
created called PhotoDNA to identify the worst of these
disturbing images — even if they are cropped or otherwise
altered — and cull through large amounts o