Purpose of the tool database

The tools database aims to compile, as far as possible, the digital tools used in the fight against child sexual abuse, in order to aid in the development of new tools, and increase usage of existing tools.

Criteria:

In order for the database to have a clear delineation of which tools should be included, the criteria below were created.

• The tool should be able to be used to prevent or combat child sexual abuse, or alternatively provide support after abuse has occurred.
  • Tools that can facilitate actors, but are not linked to child abuse, should not be included. For example, the translation tool DeepL should not be included, as it is not linked to child abuse, although investigators may use it during investigations.
• The tool should be of a digital nature, such as an application, platform or database.
• The tool should contain a reasonably advanced technical component, which should add something to the tool.
  • Examples of reasonably advanced or advanced technical components: AI classifying images, search engines, simple prioritisation algorithms, databases with hash lists, a chatbot whose responses are generated by machine learning models.
  • Examples of non-advanced technical components: a website with articles, a chatbot with pre-written answers and conversation flows, an app with information texts sorted into categories.