child protection

Unmasked: Throughput Is Not Prioritisation

When every file is treated as equally urgent, critical intelligence can get lost in the backlog. See how S21 VisionX helps investigators prioritise what matters most.

How To Use Griffeye Brain – Artificial Intelligence

The Griffeye Brain in Analyze DI Pro version 19.2 brings the power of machine learning and artificial intelligence to help you quickly locate and identify child sex abuse material within your investigations. In addition, the Griffeye Brain now has improved

Industry Roundup: Image Recognition And Categorization

by Christa Miller, Forensic Focus The need for image recognition and categorization has never been more in demand thanks to the spread of extremist propaganda, child sexual abuse material (CSAM), and other illicit activity across the internet. Because of the

Reducing The Mental Stress Of Investigators

by Eric Oldenburg, Griffeye  We recently met up with Eric Oldenburg, Griffeye’s new Law Enforcement Liasion in North America, and heard about his new role. Here, he explains how reducing mental stress for investigators is a driving force for him,

Evaluating Automated Facial Age Estimation Techniques For Digital Forensics

by Felix Anda, David Lillis, Nhien-An Le-Khac & Mark Scanlon Abstract In today’s world, closed circuit television, cellphone photographs and videos, open-source intelligence (i.e., social media/web data mining), and other sources of photographic evidence are commonly used by police forces

The Investigative Challenges Of Live Streamed Child Abuse

Among the challenges facing digital forensic investigators today, the instantaneous nature of online communication is arguably one of the most persistent. Trying to investigate whether a crime has occurred, and if so to bring its perpetrators to justice in a

Operation Endeavour: The Tip of the Iceberg?

In mid January 2014, reports began emerging of a cybersex ring that had recently been under investigation in the Philippines. Crime agencies across the UK, USA, Australia and the Philippines themselves have been working together since 2012 on a case

Forensic Software in Child Protection Cases

According to recently released statistics from ICAC, an agency whose aim is to make the internet safer for children, only 2% of reported child protection cases are investigated in the United States each year. Often the media seize every opportunity

Cyberbullying – a growing concern in a connected society

Megan Meier was just twelve years old when the events began that would ultimately lead to her death. Like many teenagers, Megan had accounts on common social networks, including MySpace, where she first met “Josh Evans”. Ostensibly a sixteen-year old