Editors:
- Cutting-edge research on the use of artificial intelligence to fight online sexual abuse
- Survey of criminal law regarding online sexual child abuse in various jurisdictions
- Provides information on the potential of using new technologies in criminal investigations
Part of the book series: Information Technology and Law Series (ITLS, volume 31)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
Terre des Hommes set out to actively tackle webcam child sex tourism by employing a virtual 10-year old Philippine girl named Sweetie, a so-called chatbot, to identify offenders in chatrooms. Sweetie 1.0 could bedeployed only if police officers participated in chats, and thus was limited in dealing with the large number of offenders. With this in mind, a more pro-active and preventive approach was adopted to tackle the issue. Sweetie 2.0 was developed with an automated chat function to track, identify and deter individuals using the internet to sexually abuse children. Using chatbots allows the monitoring of larger parts of the internet to locate and identify (potential) offenders, and to send them messages to warn of the legal consequences should they proceed further.
But using artificial intelligence raises serious legal questions. For instance, is sexually interacting with a virtual child actually a criminal offence? How do rules of criminal procedure apply to Sweetie as investigative software? Does using Sweetie 2.0 constitute entrapment? This book, the outcome of a comparative law research initiative by Leiden University’s Center for Law and Digital Technologies(eLaw) and the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT), addresses the application of substantive criminal law and criminal procedure to Sweetie 2.0 within various jurisdictions around the world.
This book is especially relevant for legislators and policy-makers, legal practitioners in criminal law, and all lawyers and academics interested in internet-related sexual offences and in Artificial Intelligence and law.
Professor Simone van der Hof is General Director of Research at t he Center for Law and Digital Technologies (eLaw) of the Leiden Law School at Leiden University, The Netherlands. Ilina Georgieva, LL.M., is a PhD researcher at the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs at Leiden University, Bart Schermer is an associate professor at the Center for Law and Digital Technologies (eLaw) of the Leiden Law School, and Professor Bert-Jaap Koops is Professor of Regulation and Technology at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT), Tilburg University, The Netherlands.
Editors and Affiliations
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Center for Law and Digital Technologies (eLaw), Leiden Law School, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
Simone van der Hof, Bart Schermer
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Faculty Governance and Global Affairs, Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA), Leiden University, The Hague, The Netherlands
Ilina Georgieva
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Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT), Tilburg Law School, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Bert-Jaap Koops
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sweetie 2.0
Book Subtitle: Using Artificial Intelligence to Fight Webcam Child Sex Tourism
Editors: Simone van der Hof, Ilina Georgieva, Bart Schermer, Bert-Jaap Koops
Series Title: Information Technology and Law Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6265-288-0
Publisher: T.M.C. Asser Press The Hague
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: T.M.C. Asser press and the authors 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-6265-287-3Published: 16 July 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-94-6265-288-0Published: 06 July 2019
Series ISSN: 1570-2782
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1966
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 542
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: International Criminal Law , Cybercrime, Big Data/Analytics, Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet)