Google's Brazilian subsidiary announced Thursday the creation of special access passwords to allow local non-governmental organizations (NGO) to report pedophilia and child pornography on its social networking service Orkut.
Cooperating with the Brazilian E-Commerce Chamber, the U.S.-based internet company aims to identify and report Orkut users who post illegal content on their personal profile pages or on community pages.
The service, called "privileged user," was first created to help law enforcement authorities, such as the police and the Public Prosecution Office, detect crimes and collect evidence against suspects on the network.
According to Google Brazil's Director General Alexandre Hohagen, among its 65 million registered users, Orkut has about 20 million from Brazil, who access an average of 1.5 billion pages on the website every day.
Hohagen said that Orkut's ordinary users make an average of 20,000 reports on child pornography every day, but only 5 percent of them lead to the final removal of a profile or community from Orkut.
Reports from "privileged users" will be treated as priority by the website's hosts. The reported pages will be removed within 24 hours and the contents will be stored for 90 days in order to support any subsequent police investigation, Hohagen said.
He added that, up to now, the most frequent reports on illicit acts on Orkut mainly involved nude photos, violence and spam, while pedophilia and child pornography occupy the last positions on the ranking of ordinary users' reports.
Source: Xinhua
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