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Denton: We focus on crimes across the spectrum on the Internet

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and on the Dark Web with child
exploitation, network intrusions,

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intellectual property rights investigations,

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pretty much anything that is on the Internet

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or the Dark Web, we will investigate it.

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Child Exploitation was what this Cyber
Crime was originally founded to counter;

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child pornographers moving from printed material

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onto material that was on the Internet.

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Cole: So the Victim Identification
Program specifically uses technology,

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coupled with our investigative capabilities to review, analyze

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and process child exploitation images and videos,

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identify and rescue the victims,
identify and apprehend the offenders,

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identify and locate the crime scene.

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Through DHS S&T, we have our

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Child Exploitation Imagery Analytics project or CHEXIA,

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which is about facial recognition,

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object recognition and text, visual textual recognition.

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In 2011, I started the program as just
myself with an iMac and a copy of Photoshop

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and in the first six months was able
to identify and rescue 32 child victims.

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Today, we're five of us working victim identification

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in a really well built-out laboratory

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and we have 26 victim identification
teams spread throughout the country.

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As an agency, we've identified and
rescued over 4400 children, since 2012.

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Bison: Many times because of the nature of the images,

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we don't know where that crime took place,

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we don't know where that child may be.

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But what we've learned over time is if
we focus more on identifying the victim,

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we will, it almost always leads us to the offender,

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and that is one thing that we really strive to do,

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is rescue the victim, but also as law enforcement,

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obviously arrest the offenders in this.

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Cole: The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children

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receives around 750,000 images and videos a week,

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seized by law enforcement and just
domestically here in the United States.

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In those images and videos, we
have visual text, we have faces,

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we've got objects and we've got
all types and manner of things.

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We have to use a lot of different technologies

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in order to find and identify those children.

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Through the funding that S&T
provided, we were able to ground through

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130,000 real-world child exploitation images and videos.

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And what we have seen is a dramatic performance increase.

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Bison: It has just been amazing,

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the work that's getting done
through their research and development

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that they do with us, through
the funding that has been provided.

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Together we've been able to really launch

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and move forward a lot of very, very important projects.

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All of these projects not only benefit
HSI and child exploitation investigations,

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but we see all of these projects also benefiting more and more

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of our programmatic areas within HSI,

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whether it be human trafficking, child
exploitation, drug or financial crimes,

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I think all of the technology
that we're working with S&T today

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on developing and fine-tuning,

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really plays a large part in the future
of HSI and our investigations as a whole.

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Denton: We hope that our
collaboration with Science & Technology

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is going to continue to give us newer
and better technology down the road.

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As the criminals find ways to try
and evade identification and capture,

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we need to use all of the tools at
our disposal to stay ahead of them

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and to be able to stop them from preying on innocent children.

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Cole: And yeah, we have to look at some
really horrific stuff, but at the end,

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we're doing it so that we can impact
a child's life to the greater good.

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