Baidu released, 2020 Annual Report on Comprehensive Management of Information Security

Today, Baidu released the ‘Annual Report on Comprehensive Management of Information Security in 2020’, announcing its special actions and related data on handling false and harmful online information and protecting the rights and interests of netizens in 2020.

According to the report, Baidu Content Security Center will use artificial intelligence (AI) technology to mine more than 51.54 billion pieces of harmful information in 2020, a crackdown on more than 80 million pieces of relevant harmful information through manual and autonomous inspections, and receive various external feedbacks.

A sum of more than 3.95 million pieces of harmful information of various types were processed in the complaints and reports. In terms of hundreds of accounts, over 1.129 million illegal and low-quality content were offline last year. Over 115,000 accounts were permanently blocked, including over 93,000 accounts for malicious marketing, 2,917 accounts for plagiarism, and fake accounts.

In 2020, Baidu Encyclopedia will continue to comprehensively control all kinds of black product information mainly compiled by third-party fees, and use technical means such as strategic determination, manual inspections, and user reporting to expand the coverage of black product cracking.

A total of 38,967 black product accounts were blocked throughout the year. , Cracking down on 1,521 related gray and black products on various trading platforms. By looking at the online marketing, Baidu rejected 284.2 million illegal medical advertisements in 2020 and 2.42242 million non-compliant advertisements.

Among them, Baidu rejected 7.66 million illegal medical advertisements in December, and the number of non-compliant advertisements was 444.9 million. Baidu stated that the ‘Kimuyu’ hosting page released in 2019 played a significant role in cracking down on illegal advertising.

Baidu also launched a special campaign called “Net Net 2020” in 2020 to severely crackdown on pornography, drug gambling, gun violence, counterfeiting, fraudulent rumors, infringement of citizens’ personal information, feudal superstition, title party, etc. information.

The report shows that, in the special operation, Baidu used targeted pornographic granularity filtering, vulgar mass delineation, and violent terror model learning and other technical interventions to crackdown on hundreds of millions of harmful information.

In 2020, Baidu has reported thousands of cybercrime clues to local police, and cooperated with the police to successfully uncover more than 220 criminal cases involving Internet crimes, cyber fraud, homicides, etc.,

And assisted the public security organs in arresting more than 300 criminals, and the total involved The amount exceeds 73 million yuan. Baidu declared that in the process of using Baidu products if netizens encounter any illegal, false or harmful information.

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