PLDT Inc. and its wireless unit Smart Communications Inc. said Tuesday they blocked access to more than 400,000 URLs that host child sexual abuse and exploitation materials (CSAEM) in August.
“PLDT and Smart recognize children not only as key stakeholders, but the very future of our nation. This drives our concerted effort to closely collaborate with like-minded organizations and employ advanced technology solutions to ensure the protection of children and prevent access to illicit child content online,”said Jojo Gendrano, senior vice president and chief information security officer at PLDT and Smart.
The PLDT Group said it invested significantly to develop its pioneering child protection platform that enables it to block illicit child content on the more difficult content level.
Complementing the technology, the PLDT Group’s membership to the UK-based Internet Watch Foundation and Project Arachnid of the Canadian Centre for Child Protection (C3P) expanded the group’s threat intelligence sources, enabling its CSOG to identify and block more than 1.4 million links to CSAEM by the end of August.
PLDT and Smart also integrated child rights protection into the organization with the pilot of UNICEF’s updated Mobile Operators Child Rights Impact Self-Assessment (MO-CRIA) tool. Darwin G. Amojelar
This enables PLDT and Smart to fully understand and apply to their operations the challenges, opportunities, and impact of child rights to the conduct of business.
