Telecommunication companies such as PLDT work to navigate around privacy laws in its efforts to block child abuse content online.
of online child sexual exploitation content in a 2020 study by the International Justice Mission, a US-based non-governmental organization working against sex trafficking and exploitation.
But data privacy laws in the Philippines limit what internet service providers can access – they can see a user’s search activity, but are not allowed to monitor individual users or their communications. “It may surprise you, but Europe is by far and away the worst place for hosting this material,” said the foundation’s press manager, Josh Thomas.
“It’s a line of code which, crucially, cannot be reverse engineered to produce or access abuse imagery,” said Thomas. In the first quarter of this year alone, Globe Telecom blocked more than 65,000 sites carrying child sexual abuse.
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