How Habbo Hotel Proves That Human Moderators Cannot Stop Online Sex Predators

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How Habbo Hotel Proves That Human

Moderators Cannot Stop Online Sex Predators

PR Newswire

LONDON, June 13, 2012

LONDON

,

June 13, 2012

/PRNewswire/ --

Last night's Channel 4 News programme highlighted

how human moderation techniques are not working,

especially for Habbo Hotel, an online game with

10,000,000 monthly unique users.

The Met Police and many other online games for kids have already

realised the problems of relying solely on human moderators and

have instead opted to employ intelligent technology that has proven

to be 98.4% accurate in identifying online predators looking for

victims, as well as harassment and spamming (Independent tests by

Cambridge University).

Only last month this new technology, known as Crisp

'Kids & Teens technology' saved the Met police

hundreds of man hours searching through chat logs to

identify vulnerable targets.

Going further than simple keyword filtering, the technology is able to

analyse the behaviour of users. Crisp technology intelligently finds

the chat that humans need to read and take action on, crucially

saving huge amounts of time.

Crisp clients already include: Sony, Ubisoft,

Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, LEGO, EA, Binweevils,

Moshimonsters.

Web safety expert, Adam Hildreth, CEO Crisp Thinking, explains, "How

do you protect Kids Online whilst still letting them chat?"

Online environments for kids and teenagers rely on chat. But with millions of chat

messages sent each day, how do you make sure that kids aren't being bullied or

groomed by an online predator? Even if you could employ 1000's of people to look

through chat messages, there are now so many that they would miss the vast majority of

serious issues.

Crisp Thinking, a UK technology company, was setup in 2005 to look at a way to solve

this problem. Crisp created a new solution that wouldn't try to block every potentially

bad word said but instead take a completely new approach that would profile the

behavior of a person and be able to tell the difference between innocent children, cyber

bullyies, online predators and other dangerous behaviors.

Today Crisp's technology is integrated into 100's of the biggest Online Spaces for Kids

and aims to offer the safest possible online experience possible without restricting chat

too much for the well-behaved kids.

Crisp has developed a new kind of profiling technology that looks at what every user

says and does in real-time, to identify the users that pose a risk to children in online

games and virtual worlds. Users that exert dangerous or negative behavior are flagged

up immediately to expert Human Moderators, so that they can review the user profile,

what has been said and then take appropriate action such as banning the account and

reporting them to law enforcement.

Crisp's technology uses data from Law Enforcement and Online Experts to learn about

the latest vocabulary and tactics that are used by Children, Online Predators and Cyber

Bullies; by using real world examples Crisp technology is always up-to-date.

Crisp's technology is now used by Law Enforcement such as the Metropolitan Police to

help them analyse the Chat Logs of suspected peadophiles. Crisp can look through

1000's of chat messages a second to quickly identify and prioritise all risks.

Crisp's work with the Met Police

A groundbreaking partnership between law enforcers and Crisp, last month,

saved the Metropolitan police hundreds of man hours by sifting through a

dangerous paedophile's 5,000 web chats and identifying his vulnerable young

targets.

The pilot project used Crisp's 'predator detection' software, its Kids & Teens

program, which usually monitors live web chats, to quickly process six years'

worth of online grooming history, police found on a 46-year-old sex

offender's computer and flag up the girls - some as young as 10-years-old - he

had targeted.

Acting Detective Chief Inspector Noel McHugh, from the Met's Paedophile Unit,

said: "The message is clear, we will use all lawful methods to capture

paedophiles, and we are constantly looking for technological solutions to

apprehend the most dangerous offenders and to safeguard the most

vulnerable.

"We faced a mammoth task in reading through over 5,000 logs, some running

to pages. For an officer to manually read every page would have taken a

considerable amount of time."

Adam Hildreth invented Crisp's behaviour analysis technology in 2005 as an

antidote to simple keyword filtering, which frequently blocks innocent online

interactions and consequently drives young users to less restrictive websites

that potentially put them in danger.

More information on this

case:

http://content.met.police.uk/News/Paedophile-jailed-for-online-

grooming/1400008079797/1257246741786

Notes to Editor:

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Independent tests by Cambridge University found Crisp technology to be

98.4% accurate in identifying online predators looking for victims, as well as

harassment and spamming.

About Crisp

Crisp Thinking is a UK based privately held company, established in 2005

Crisp technology is 98.4% accurate in identifying online predators looking for victims,

harassment and spamming, according to independent tests by Cambridge University

Crisp currently analyses over 600 million pieces of data for clients each month

Crisp operates in multiple languages