The article focuses on the new proposition made by health secretary Jeremy Hunt. He proposed that underage sexting and cyber bulling should be banned. It was proposed that there is technology already present that can be used in order to prevent illicit messages and content being recognised by computers and automatically removing it from the internet. However it is currently being strongly argued against as computers yet aren't able to differentiate images between abusive and non abusive.
- An analyst at the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) might look at 1,000 images of child sexual abuse in a single day
- Peter – one of 13 analysts at the IWF – dutifully clicks through the daily queue of images and videos, marking the difference.
- Each photo he hashes as abusive – from Category C (indecent) to Category A (penetrative) – can swiftly be blocked wherever it appears on the public internet.
Personally, I think Jeremy Hunt is proposing something that is difficult to do. In fact, I strongly believe that the health secretary does not understand the way technology works at all. In terms of computerised recognition of images, this is a technology that is being worked on and has been in development for several years. Recently, a group of developers attempted to make a computer that could differentiate and categorise images but in order to do that the computer had to be fed a bank of over 5 million images made by users across the world. This is something that would obviously impossible to do and is something that Jeremy Hunt should consider before trying to solve a problem that isn't a priority.
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