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Success Stories
Technology seems to be everywhere, unless you’re in a remote rural town where access to tech tools remains scarce. Insufficient internet connectivity and lack of access to technology devices have left many rurally-located households even further behind on the socioeconomic scale… affecting education and career opportunities. This divide is exponentially felt by the youth in these communities.
Through our STEM coding camps, we’re giving kids a glimpse into how I.T. can be a pathway to self-sufficiency. Technology is the future and we’re thrilled to enable the youth in rural America to develop skills that ensure their future is bright. Here are a few of their stories.
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Investigators face an overwhelming task: they must review massive volumes of images and videos depicting the sexual abuse of children. These files come from CyberTips submitted by social media platforms, dark web activity, and devices seized during law enforcement operations. The core challenge remains the same—sifting through enormous amounts of digital evidence to uncover critical clues that can help identify and rescue child victims. These investigations often take weeks or even months to complete, during which children may continue to suffer active abuse. The faster investigators can identify victims, the sooner they can be removed from harm. The TGB Foundation supports cutting-edge victim identification tools that leverage state-of-the-art machine learning to dramatically accelerate this process. These intelligent solutions analyze files far more quickly than manual review, detect suspected child sexual abuse material (CSAM) with high accuracy, and categorize content so investigators can focus their efforts where it matters most.
Investigators spanning 2 continents recently detected a dark web ring that was exploiting children under the age of 6. The team commented that content was some of the most disturbing they had seen in their decades of work. The technology we support provided the tools necessary to stop this abuse.
Your generous support enables us to equip more law enforcement agencies across the globe with these transformative technologies, helping to build a stronger digital safety net that protects children and fundamentally changes how we fight online child sexual exploitation.
The TGB Foundation funds the incredible work of Thorn to develop software tools like Thorn Detect, that predicts the likelihood that image and video content contains child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Therefore allowing law enforcement to identify victims of abuse faster and move to shut down the circulation of the content on the dark web.
Thorn’s machine learning image and video classification modes were trained in part using trusted data from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) CyberTipline. Collaborative partnerships within the child protection community are essential to the ongoing development of this technology.
