Una herramienta que ayuda a las víctimas a poner fin al ciclo del abuso sexual

2. Proyecto Arachnid, una herramienta que
ayuda a las víctimas a poner fin al ciclo del
abuso sexual
Stephen Sauer
Director Cybertip.ca

3. A world where children
are protected and safe
@CdnChildProtect
Canadian Centre for Child Protection
August 2018
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5. Our History

6. Child Safety and Family
Advocacy Division
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7. REDUCE THE AVAILABILITY OF CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE IMAGES ON THE INTERNET
IDENTIFY MORE VICTIMS AND IMPROVE RESPONSE/SUPPORT SERVICES
Project Arachnid
Victim Identification, Intervention and Support Strategy
Supporting Victims of Child
Sexual Abuse Imagery
Victims’ Voice
Revised
Child Welfare
Intersections
Other
Interventions

8. International Survivors’
Survey
• Survey for now-adult survivors of CSAM
• Launched January 2016
• Goal: Understand unique needs of survivors
and explore policy/legislative/therapeutic
changes
• Developed in consultation with an
international working group
• Outreach through media, law enforcement
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9. Considerations
• Done online – respondent anonymity
• Split into sections explaining the
purpose
• Encouraging participants to take
breaks – access key
• Narratives preferred over categories
• Pre-screening questions to meet
survey criteria
• Survey still open – foreseeable future
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10. Survivors’ Survey: Demographics
• 150 respondents
• Four languages from eight countries
• Consistent responses regardless of country/language
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11. What We Learned from Survivors
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12. Survivors’ Survey: Age Abuse Started/Ended & Duration
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13. Offenders
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16. What We Learned from Survivors
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17. Survivors’ Survey: Organized Abuse
• Defined as “abuse that involves a child or multiple
children being subjected to sexual abuse by
multiple offenders working together to commit the
abuse”
• 49% of respondents were victims of organized
abuse
• The country or continent that the organized sexual
abuse respondents lived in at the time of abuse was
largely consistent with the overall respondent pool
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18. Survivors’ Survey: Organized Abuse – Demographics
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19. What We Learned from Survivors
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20. Uncovering Abuse
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22. What We Learned from Survivors
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23. Survivors’ Survey:
Impact on Education

24. Survivors’ Survey:
Impact on Career

25. Survivor Survey: Lifelong Impacts
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26. Reporting to Law Enforcement
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28. What We Learned from Survivors
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29. Survivors’ Survey:
Recommendations for Change
• Reduce the availability of CSAM on the
internet.
• Improve education and training on issue of
CSA among professionals.
• Strengthen the coordination and
communication between all systems and
entities that intersect
• Develop systems and remedies to properly
recognize the rights and unique needs of
victims whose abuse was recorded.
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30. Meeting with Survivors
• Organized by C3P and NCMEC
• Retreat held in Phoenix in February 2018
• Learn about unique needs
• Trauma experts, attorneys, LEA
• Peer support network – therapeutic approach
• Recording VIS
• Summit held in Winnipeg in July 2018
• Formed tactical agenda…

31. Tactical Agenda
Aim
• Collective, powerful voices of survivors
to make change
Tactics
• Community Impact Statement for
court purposes
• Advocacy Impact Statement
• Governments
• Industry
• Courts

32. Moving Forward
• Promote the Survivor Survey
• Remains open
• Promote the Family Survey (once
available)
• C3P continues to move forward with the
Tactical Advocacy Agenda

33. Project Arachnid
SEP 2018

35. What is Project Arachnid?
• Platform to reduce public availability of CSAM
• Victim focused
• Finds CSAM based on PhotoDNA and human intel
• Sends takedown notices to providers

36. Where do hashes (fingerprints) come from?
• NCMEC
• RCMP
• City/regional police services in Canada
• Interpol (ICSE)
• Cybertip.ca hashes (public reporting)
• 8 million + currently

37. Where does Project Arachnid find CSAM?
• Open websites – links from URLs with known CSAM
• Forums/chatrooms
• Tor hidden services
• Industry proactive submissions

38. How does Arachnid flag CSAM for review?

39. Scraping Tor Hidden Services (Dark Web)
• Larger archives typically encrypted / split / stored on the open web
• Arachnid has index of known passwords as posted in forum
• Arachnid will automatically decrypt and expand archive for analyst
assessment
• Encrypted archives can evade proactive ESP efforts

40. Arachnid Industry API
• Focus on trained analyst assessment vs industry
• Image scanning
• Hash matching / download
• URLs – blocking / intelligence
• 3 Tiers
• Pre-upload blocking (hash filtering)
• Post-upload blocking (notices)
• Content Filtering (URL blocking)
• Media that violates TOS (non-csam)

41. Arachnid Dashboard…

42. How is content removed?

43. Notices – Age verified (Post pubescent)
• Verification directly with LEA
• Associating media
• High compliance rate on notices sent to providers
• High volume of content in “plain view” on adult
pornography sites
• difficulty in hotline assessment
• Works well for self / peer produced material

44. Overall Notice / Takedown success rate
• Top 25% Under 2hrs
• Top 50% Under 12hrs
• Bottom 10% ~ 30days

45. Notice success rate – Good Examples
• Finding correct abuse@ contact is key – CSAM
specific
• Best providers white list Arachnid for auto-
action
• Reporting collateral user content

46. Notice success rate – Room for Improvement…

47. Question…
When do the number of *UNIQUE*
images/videos detected per month start
going down?

48. Unique Images / month (Since Jan 2017)

49. How do Hotlines Participate?
• Agreement / Arachnid Orb
• Assess media – not urls
• Classify irrespective of geographic location
• Notices sent in North America
• Reports sent to ICCAM or ESP / Both
• Branded notices

50. Participating Hotline Benefits
• Removes geographic based assessment shortcomings
• Media intelligence for Analysts:
• Series knowledge
• Victim identified? - Analyst wellness
• Use of resultant data – Sum of our parts
• URLs / Hashes
• Support resource for survivors in tipline country
• Shared platform for attacking Darkweb advertised material

51. How does Arachnid help LEA?
•Submission of hash values into Arachnid where distribution is
not known
• Project Iceberg
• RCMP video example
•Discovery of media that has not been previously seen by LEA
•Pulling hash values from Arachnid API relating to victim impact
statements
•API for Law enforcement (in development)

52. Where do we go from here?
• Focus on rights of child victims vs strict criminal code def’s
• Collaborative classification – international approach
• More analysts reviewing material, focusing in the same
direction
• Increased industry involvement in use of Arachnid API
• Branding notices in the native language of the destination
country/company

53. Thanks!
Stephen Sauer
Director of Cybertip.ca
stephen@protectchildren.ca
https://projectarachnid.ca/

54. Socios y aliados
Apoyan