"Stop Distribution of Digital Sex Crime Content"…Support Filtering Technology and DB for Internet Service Providers

[Asia Economy Reporter Seulgina Jo] From the 17th, the government will provide standard filtering technology and a public DNA database (DB) for illegal filming materials to support internet service providers' technical measures to prevent the distribution of digital sexual crime materials. Additionally, for private businesses wishing to use their own filtering technology, performance evaluations of the respective technologies will be conducted.

According to the Korea Communications Commission and the Ministry of Science and ICT on the 16th, following amendments to the Telecommunications Business Act and the Information and Communications Network Act last year, webhard operators and value-added telecommunications service providers above a certain scale (businesses obligated to take prior measures) are required to implement technical and managerial measures to prevent the distribution of illegal filming materials. Specifically, these include ▲establishing reporting functions, ▲identification and search restriction measures, ▲identification and posting restriction measures, and ▲prior warning measures.

These technical and managerial obligations will be fully enforced from December 10th after a one-year grace period. Internet service providers requiring illegal filming material filtering software and the public DNA DB can download them for free through the 'Digital Sexual Crime Public DNA DB Technical Support Portal' established by the Korea Communications Standards Commission.

The Korea Communications Commission and the Ministry of Science and ICT have been promoting the development of standard filtering technology, the construction of a public DNA DB for illegal filming materials, and performance evaluations of private technologies to support the obligation of 'identification and posting restriction of illegal filming materials.'

The Korea Communications Commission has overseen related matters including conducting performance evaluations of private technologies through the Telecommunications Technology Association (TTA), building the public DNA DB using filtering technology, drafting and distributing related guidelines, and consulting with businesses obligated to take prior measures. The Ministry of Science and ICT and the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) developed software that extracts feature values (DNA) of videos posted on sites based on deep learning and identifies matches with illegal filming materials managed by the Korea Communications Standards Commission through comparison of feature values, reflecting the technical demands of the Korea Communications Commission.

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