Having received over 3,500 suspect child porn reports in May and reported over 100 mostly non-U.S. sites to authorities the same month, Adult Sites Against Child Pornography is working toward developing software letting it transmit reports to anti-child porn enforcement hotlines around the world.
Executive director Joan Irvine said the group hopes the software "will speed up the process and help the authorities to apprehend these criminals," adding the software should be finished and installed "in a few months."
Irvine said she couldn't disclose most specifics about the intended software nor which developer ASACP was working with to produce it, until final agreements were written and signed later this month.
But she did tell AVNOnline.com the coming software would address both a need for more accurate statistical reporting and for a more accessible information database, especially considering the estimated 80 percent of confirmable child porn sites originating outside the United States - and the need to give the best possible information to international law enforcement agencies.
To date, ASACP has received and reviewed over 80,000 reports of suspected Internet child porn and reported over 16,000 valid child porn sites to the FBI and the U.S. Bureau of Customs, with about 12,500 of the reported sites being shut down.
