Child Exploitation Tracking System (CETS)
While the Internet offers children unparalleled educational resources and entertainment, it also contains dangers for children in the form of inappropriate and sometimes illegal content and online predators. Cooperation among law enforcement officials, government, and industry is critical to make the Internet a safer place for children. Microsoft believes it has a special responsibility to provide the resources needed to address issues of Internet safety.
Online child exploitation is a particularly serious problem, as Internet crimes — especially those involving children — are increasing at an unprecedented rate. To help address these concerns, Microsoft is continually developing more advanced tools to help provide a safer online environment for children.
The Child Exploitation Tracking System (CETS) is a unique software tool developed by Canadian police, international law enforcement officials, and Microsoft to help battle child exploitation online. Pronounced "kets," this tool helps law enforcement officials collaborate and share information with other police services based on legal agreements in place. When law enforcement officials turned to Microsoft to help solve a significant challenge they faced, CETS was created to increase the effectiveness of investigators and teams by providing them with software to store, search, share, and analyze large volumes of evidence and match cases across police agencies.
CETS already has played a part in several investigations across geographic boundaries, creating links that have helped apprehend online offenders and, most important, lead to the rescue of children in countries around the world.
Key benefits
CETS offers to law enforcement powerful collaboration and analysis.
| • | Collaboration. Agencies can break down borders through collaboration and information sharing. Using standard Web-based technologies, law enforcement agencies can collaborate on investigations into the exploitation of children based on legal agreements in place, using security-enhanced technologies. From a technical perspective, CETS is based on Extensible Markup Language (XML), so investigators can both provide and receive information from almost any computer system that contains relevant data, regardless of the hardware or software. |
| • | Analysis. Agencies can use powerful computer tools to fight computer crime. CETS contains powerful features to permit investigators to easily import, organize, analyze, share and search information from the point of detection right through the investigative phase. |
Eligibility and participation
Microsoft is currently working with governments around the globe to deploy CETS. If you would like to receive more information about CETS, please contact us.
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