WhatsApp Leave Ngos Active Child Pornography Groups Shocked ByNitish Singh-December 26, 2018.1082 Figure 1 Picture Courtesy of Nikkei Asian Review Several WhatsApp chat groups are used to distribute child pornography content. Ngos Screen Savers and Netivei Reshe found out about the classes. In July 2018, child pornography groups were first discovered which led to the investigation of the app. Since July 2018 two Ngos Screen Savers and Netivei Reshe have been investigating the Facebook-owned Messaging app. A guy tipped the two Ngos who uncovered the illegal activity onto one of their hotlines. In October 2018, both organizations cataloged more than 10 categories, and the material available. According to the Ngos and TechCrunch, Facebook should have carried out a manual investigation which also investigated the problem. While Facebook currently commands a moderation workforce of 20000 people, in WhatsApp there are only 300 workers, with the messaging app running almost independently. .1083 Figure 2 Image Courtesy of TechCrunch AntiToxin Technologies sponsored all the work and the company was able to recognize over 1300 videos and images on WhatsApp. Tumblr was recently removed from the App Store following the discovery of child pornography on the site and WhatsApp may suffer a similar fate but Apple has yet to make a decision. Jordana Cutler, Facebook’s head of policy was approached for a meeting in September but such an agreement was not made. WhatsApp got the research findings from the Ngos today, and action is yet to be taken. The Indian government met with a number of tech companies and service providers earlier this month to discuss decryption laws which may soon be enforced in the country. If such problems continue on social media government intervention and control could become the norm on a global scale. The sensors are expected this year to make it into Apple’s new flagship iPhones. Media reports last week reported that Apple is negotiating with Sony, and we can expect camera sensors from the Japanese tech company to be introduced on upcoming iPhones. Sony’s Satoshi Yoshihara, the sensor division’s director, shed some more light on the company’s 3D camera sensors and how they can be used in Ar applications. Some manufacturers currently use face recognition technology to project invisible dots to detect a user’s face in a simulated 3D environment. Sony’s technology, however, varies significantly in that regard and instead produces a depth map that is able to measure the face of a user in a 3D environment by reflecting laser pulses. The company has confirmed the technology will work up to 16 feet away on faces. When it comes to taking images and videos, phone cameras have come a long way, but depth-sensing is something that is missing in current-gen technology on any device. Sony’s new deep-sensing technology is far more advanced than we’ve ever seen, and it can turn it into facial recognition technology but also into robotics for drones self-driving cars and more. Not only can Sony’s latest 3D depth-sensing technology make facial recognition far more accurate than it is, it can also reduce the number of parts that go into mobile camera systems allowing phones to become sleeker than they are already. IOs and Android invest heavily in Augmented Reality, and we can also see Sony’s technology being implemented in Ar devices.