Two minutes to anti-grooming protection

1. Go to
   https://tiscali.crispthinking.com/signup/
2. Once Crisp is installed (a quick, simple download), it will upload instant messaging conversations from supported IM clients on your computer to Crisp's Anti-Grooming Engine.
3. AGE will monitor and protect a young person's instant message accounts 24/7, by looking for grooming patterns as conversations develop.
4. When AGE detects a potential grooming conversation, it will alert both parent and young person by email or text message
5. Only the parts of conversations Crisp identifies as potentially dangerous can be seen by the parent, thus protecting the young person's privacy.

How does Crisp spot grooming?

Online child protection based on blocks, locks and word filters does not work. These technologies have been in place for years, but the grooming problem just keeps on growing. The UK government's Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) now gets over 3,000 grooming reports a year. CEOP says one in four of today's children will eventually meet up with someone they first contacted online, compared with one in 12 just four years ago.

Crisp takes a completely different approach. It detects grooming by recognizing the ways groomers behave. It looks at how they manipulate online relationships, what they say and how they say it. It looks at sexual content and punctuation, aggression levels and sentence length, typing speed and vocabulary. And it compares all these elements with dynamic, minutely detailed profiles of real-life groomers and real-life boys and girls.

Crisp works from a huge, constantly updated database, learning as it goes along, rather than matching pre-set patterns. If the paedophiles change their tactics and behaviour, this is reflected straight away in adjustments to the way Crisp assesses its threat ratings. If youngsters start visiting new social networking sites or using different slang, these changes will quickly modify the Anti-Grooming Engine's idea of what a typical 10-year-old boy or a 14-year-old girl might be like. Groomers can't beat the system or outwit the algorithms, as that would be like trying to dodge their own shadows. Over the years, the more relationships Crisp analyses, the smarter it gets at detecting the bad ones. Just using Crisp means you are fighting the abusers.