Artificial Intelligence is a large branch of computer science that deals with the creation of smart machines capable of performing tasks that usually require human intelligence. AI is an interdisciplinary science with different approaches, but in nearly every field of the tech industry, developments in machine learning and deep learning are causing a paradigm change.

As a human, teenagers are still evolving, but they don’t know what their full identity is. It is very easy for the world to let them know what they should be and how they should behave as an individual, without researching it and forming their own opinion on it, adolescents are likely to adopt ideas. It is easy for a person to put ideas in the head of a child, since they may lack assertiveness that helps them to understand what they should say no to and yes to, making it very difficult to interpret mind games. That’s the main reason behind teenagers being this paper’s target.

According to EEOC, Sexual Harassment can be defined as unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature when:

Submission to such conduct is made either explicitly or implicitly a term or condition of an individual›s employment.

Unwelcome Behaviour is the critical word. Unwelcome does not mean “involuntary.” A victim may consent or agree to certain conduct and actively participate in it even though it is offensive and objectionable. Therefore, sexual conduct is unwelcome whenever the person subjected to it considers it unwelcome. Whether the person, in fact, welcomed a request for a date, sex-oriented comment, or joke depends on all the circumstances.

How to cite this article: Gandhi, R. (2020). Termination of Cyber-SexualHarassment and Abuse with Teenagers using Artificial Intelligence. Educational Quest: An Int. J. Edu. Appl. Soc. Sci., 11(4): 169-174.

Source of Support: None; Conflict of Interest: None

Sexual Harassment can be categorized into various forms, one of which and the main focus of this paper is Cyber Sexual Harassment. When the victim of Sexual Harassment is targeted through the means of any Online Social Platform such as Facebook, Instagram, Telegram, E-Mails, etc case falls under the umbrella of Cyber Sexual Harassment. Means of harassment through the internet could be:

Abusive Texts

Being harassed sexually can impact an individual in several ways, affecting physical well-being as well as causing mental traumas and breakdown.

Some of the consequential reactions are listed below [2]:

Physiological Reactions

Psychological Reactions

In the 2016 Annual Report from the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF),18 whose remit is to remove Child Sexual Abuse Material hosted anywhere in the world, including non-photographic content hosted in the United Kingdom, of the 105,420 reports processed in 2016, 57,162 were received from public sources withthe remainder identified through analysts actively searching the open Internet using a combination of analyst searching and bespoke web crawlers. Of these, 57,335 URLs contained Child Sexual Abuse Content, twenty- eight percent of these reports were confirmed as containing serious cases regarding the same.

INHOPE (a global network of hotlines from 49 members whose remit is to deal with illegal content online and remove Child Sexual Abuse Material from the Internet),20 reported that they received 9,357,240 reports in 2016, with 8,474,713 confirmed as containing Child Sexual Abuse Material. Cybertip. ca, the hotline hosted by the Canadian Centre for Child Protection processed 40,251 reports in 2016-17, 49% of which were forwarded to law enforcement, child welfare, and (or) INHOPE, or notice was sent to an Electronic Service Provider to report Child Sexual Abuse Material hosted by a service provider in Canada or the United States.

During 2015, in addition to receiving reports of online Child Sexual Abuse, 85% of hotlines in 2015 also accepted other types of reports, which included for example racism/hate speech (69%), adult pornography (64%), bullying (62%) and selfharm/suicide (44%).

However, in this global study of hotlines, approximately one-third of those surveyed indicated that Child Sexual Abusereports made up the majority of their workload. The National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), serves as the United States of America’s clearinghouse for Child Sexual Abuse Material through the Cyber Tip-line. This provides an online mechanism for members of the public and electronic service providers (ESPs) to report incidents of suspected child sexual exploitation. This includes Child Sexual Abuse Material,sexual exploitation of children in travel and tourism, online enticement, trafficking of children for sexual purposes, child sexual molestation, misleading domain names or words, and unsolicited obscene material sent to a child. In the report to the United States House of Representatives Subcommittee in March 2017, it was noted that over recent years, the volume of Cyber Tip-line reports received by NCMEC had increased from over 1.1 million reports in 2014 to more than 4.4 million reports in 2015, to more than 8.2 million reports in 2016.

The above reports show that 20% of all teenagers experience Cyber Sexual Harassment through social media before reaching 18, and this number might be much bigger in absence of proper resources to detect such crimes. We live in a world where everyone is free to share their views through social media, but some lawbreakers take advantage of the liberty provided by these platforms to reach out to anyone, they start targeting innocent children. My proposed architecture focuses on tackling and monitoring of textual messages often received by children by unknown/known people who tend to harm children because of their sexual urges.

Since the user data in criminal cases like sexual harassment is very sensitive, hence as a developer of this application I’m bound to keep the total privacy of user’s data. I know that if I failed to do so it will have disastrous consequences for my application from both legal and PR standpoint. I will take few necessary steps to safeguard my application against security breaches:

No Access to Sensitive Data: No one from the team of developers/executives (if any) should’ve access to the client’s data without being reported for any technical issue by the user and only if the user agrees to share data with the helping executives. There should be a centralized system only through which executives would be able to help the user.

Dedicated Server: Using shared servers to cutdown the costs is normal practice among running businesses, however, this comes with a security risk, as these servers share risk with other websites. While dedicated servers are expensive, they also provide an additional layer of protection for both you and your client.

Proper Firewalls and Antivirus Protection: Basic security measures to safeguard data include the installation of firewalls and antivirus protection. While firewalls would help to prevent unauthorized access, antivirus software helps prevent, detect, and remove harmful programs from your computer and hence reducing the vulnerabilities of the whole system.

Periodic Security Updates: Security hacks do exploit known security holes, so in order to prevent exploitation of security holes, developers should provide regular updates covering those holes and pushing them to users.

The proposed NLP based Emotion Recognition using Natural Language Processing approach works to recognize sexual harassment and abuse efficiently and effectively. Algorithms used in learning techniques gave an aggregate accuracy of 90.25% even with a limited amount of data available. Also,I believe that with the expansion of the training dataset provided for learning techniques, accuracy will improve substantially.