Grants:Project/TakeDownCrawler

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Project Grants

TakeDownCrawler

summaryWant to build a tool that can help people find the location and number of postings there are of unwanted footage or pictures of themselves.

targetInspire Campaign:Addressing harassment

amount10,000 USD

grantee• jeanieoh

contact• jeanieoh@berkeley.edu

created on04:50, 17 July 2016 (UTC)

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Project idea

What is the problem you're trying to solve?

Explain the problem that you are trying to solve with this project. What is the issue you want to address? Be brief, you can update and add to this later. When victims of harassment realize that somebody took inappropriate footage or pictures of them and posted it on the www, there's no way (as far as I know) for those people to know how many sites are posting it, to what extent the posting has perhaps even gone viral. I'd like to build a tool that helps victims gain some peace by knowing where and how may places those assets are posted and be given an opportunity to request take down to those sites.

What is your solution?

Briefly explain how you will address this problem. I want to program a crawler that is intelligent enough to find the web addresses of all the sites that are posting the offending material.

Project goals

What are the primary goal of your project? Please briefly explain what are you trying to accomplish with this project, or what do you expect will change as a result of this grant To help victims of harassment gain peace by knowing where all the postings of offending materials are located and help write a script to request take down to each of those sites.

Project plan

Activities

We will be building a crawler. We will also be building machine learning algorithms if needed to more accurately and quickly identify specific offending material

Budget

Project manager: 1,000 USD Coder #1 : 2,000 USD Coder #2 : 2,000 USD Film, Photshop, Asset specialist : 2,000 USD 1 Quad Pro Desktop machine : 3,000 USD

Community engagement

We plan to preset to the UC Berkeley School of Information student organizations that are passionate about fighting online harassment.

Sustainability

We are expecting to finish the algorithm with the grant before it runs out.

Measures of success

I would like to test it by tracking certain footages that went viral to see if the algorithm truly works

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