Google's new Content Safety API will fight child abuse images with AI

Google has announced the release of a new Content Safety API with the aim of helping to combat child sexual abuse material (CSAM) online. The announcement comes as UK home secretary Sajid Javid called on technology companies to do more to tackle the problem of child abuse imagery on the internet, and the API has two main aims. The first is to make it quicker and easier to detect and remove CSAM, while the second is to do so without having to expose human content-checkers to so much abuse content. See also: Unless you upgrade to Android Pie, a vulnerability… [Continue Reading]