A Proposal of Webhard Monitoring System against CYBER SEXUAL VIOLENCE

Abstract

Purpose; Cyber sexual violence is a sexual crime deriving from information and communication technology such as the Internet and digital devices including camera and has become a serious social issue. The government has enacted various legislations and eradicative measures, yet the spread of cyber sexual crime images and its re-distribution are not eliminated, but constantly increasing. Hence, this study would propose a Webhard Monitoring System. The proposal Webhard Monitoring system stores extracted features from cyber sexual violence images in database, utilize the stored data for various techniques such as Text-based, Content-based and Semantic-based retrievals. When any image with high index of similarity with the crime image is retrieved, the image is downloaded and checked, and then notify the webhard. The webhard with the retrieval result reception blocks any access to the crime image and transfer the personal information of the image uploader to identification information monitoring system. The system stores and manages the original crime piece and uploader personal information received from the webhard and characteristics of the image for further monitoring processes. This proposes a monitoring system to rapidly and accurately monitor webhards. The proposal webhard monitoring system retrieves and deletes cyber sexual crime image to prevent re-distribution, and even allows tracking the first distributor of the crime image in the webhards. Considering the characteristics of cyber sexual violence – unavailability of victims to recognize their damage and time-consuming cost to recognize the damage – immediate blocking and deleting the cyber sexual violence image is urgently necessary regardless of the request by victims.