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These worrying findings come from a recent study conducted by experts atSurfshark.

There were about 83 million between 2020 and 2022, with EU countries accounting for 3.1 million reports.

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The company developed a new AI-powered tool able to scrape the web to effectively identify illegal content.

It analyzes image metadata and determines if there are any matches in the police database.

These images then pass through a machine-learning model capable of detecting pornographic material.

Thepro bono projectlasted two months and scanned about 300 thousand Lithuanian websites.

The tool managed to identify 19 local websites violating national or EU laws.

This brought to eight police reports and two pre-trial investigations.

Reiterating privacy as a fundamental right, the decision comes to safeguard online security and encryption.

However, it’s now the time for each EU Member State to agree on their own position.

Ministers expect to find an agreement by March.

Still, he still thinks it’s crucial to discuss tech-powered alternatives in more detail.

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