During a round of feedback among the users that have AviaTor in production in November 2023, reduction times of 30% have been mentioned by our users. Part of this significant reduction in time might be attributed to AviaTor’s user-friendly interface, as testified by AviaTor users, that helps to streamline workflows and report processing. This considerable time reduction is critical in allowing LEAs to allocate their time to the most important tasks.

Law enforcement worldwide faces the daunting task of processing millions of children sexual abuse material (CSAM) reports sent by industry annually. Industry CSAM reports are sent by companies like social media platforms, hosting providers, and cloud services, when they detect suspicious content on their platforms or servers or whenever this is reported to them by their users. The law in the United States mandates them to report these cases to the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), which in turn forwards the reports to law enforcement in the countries involved.

We need to work smarter

This stream of CSAM reports going from industry to law enforcement has been growing exponentially over the years and is expected to keep growing in the years to come. This calls for smart technological solutions to support law enforcement in the processing of the increasing number of incoming reports while, in most cases, having to work with the same number of officers.

AviaTor helps prioritise reports and focus LEA capacity

AviaTor is a prioritisation tool that functions as a database with tons of extra functionalities that law enforcement can use to prioritise NCMEC reports. Thanks to funding from the European Union, the database became available to LEAs in 2020 and has since been developed further and tested by its LEA users.

By using visual intelligence combined with open-source intelligence and hash matching, the AviaTor database helps investigators identify duplicate reports, duplicate material, new material, crossmatch reports and find additional information on suspects.

When the number of reports is too large to process, it is of utmost importance to prioritise which reports need to be processed first (potential ongoing child abuse for example) and which reports can wait (material that went viral and is reported over and over).

If you are interested in learning more about the AviaTor tool, come see the tool in action during the AviaTor Forum on June 26th in Brussels, or apply for a private demo.