As it continues fast-track development of new child porn site reporting technology, Adult Sites Against Child Pornography has named its first chief technology officer, Brandon Shalton.
ASACP executive director Joan Irvine said Shalton has worked with adult and mainstream businesses in the past, giving him an understanding of both worlds that makes him a perfect fit for ASACP, which is trying to improve its ways of reporting and confirming actual child porn sites that can be closed down by the proper authorities.
Shalton, for his part, approached his new appointment philosophically. "I create applications and services that assist people in their lives using technology," he said. "ASACP’s charter is focused on a great cause and I wanted to be able to contribute to that cause, with my skills and experiences. Technology is never the solution, but the means for enabling people to achieve their goals."
"(We) needed a person who could evaluate its current procedures, develop systems to automate these, and position ASACP for the future," Irvine said, announcing Shalton's appointment. "Brandon will provide ASACP with new technology tools like web spidering programs and image processing applications, in addition to building a new Intranet."
Those, she added, will free up their compliance and site review manager to get into further child porn site research and more detailed statistical reporting. The spidering will also verify all ASACP approved members and affiliates comply with the ASACP code of ethics, Irvine said.
The new Intranet technology, moreover, will be able to cent child porn reports to agencies around the world, law enforcement and child protection alike, Irvine added.
"With all the work that Alec Helmy…has done since he established ASACP in 1996, the supporters of ASACP, and the new energy that Joan has contributed, all that was missing was some additional tools to continue the pro-active efforts of eliminating child pornography sites from the web,” Shalton said.
For more information or to join the fight against child porn, visit ASACP on the Web or contact [email protected].
