The Philippines was named the world’s top source of online child sexual exploitation content in a 2020 study by the International Justice Mission, a US-based nongovernmental organization working against sex trafficking and exploitation.
According to the study, endemic poverty is helping drive a surge in abuse in the Philippines, where about 20 million of the 115 million population live below the poverty line.
The International Justice Mission said online child sexual exploitation was a “fast-growing, borderless crime” and that perpetrators in Western countries lured Filipinos to sexually abuse children and offer images or videos of the exploitation online. “We thought that to be able to block on a content level, we would violate privacy-related laws by sniffing through the traffic of our subscribers,” Redoble said.
“It’s a line of code which, crucially, cannot be reverse engineered to produce or access abuse imagery,” said Thomas.
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