Canada's Liberal government has announced millions of dollars for a national centre that uses artificial intelligence to crawl the internet for images of child pornography and report it. Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale said Wednesday the government is giving the Winnipeg-based Canadian Centre for Child Protection $4.1 million over five years, and $857,000 a year ongoing. The new funding will allow the protection centre to develop and maintaining Arachnid, an automated crawler that detects online child sexual abuse images and videos. If child sexual abuse is detected, the program sends a notice to the host service provider to have it removed. Child porn on the riseThe funding will also help support Cybertip.ca, the centre's national tip line for reporting online sexual abuse and exploitation of children.

Source: CBC News February 07, 2018 12:41 UTC