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Attention ICAC investigators! This may be one of the most affordable training opportunities available for your team this year. At DFRWS USA 2026, Project VIC International is helping deliver a hands-on training program focused on the real-world needs of investigators working child exploitation, trafficking, and victim identification cases. The training brings together presenters and contributors from: @MSAB_XRY , @MagnetForensics , @_Project_Vic , @DHS Cyber Crime Center, @FoxValleyTech , @AiRigr , @kindredtech , and @GblEmancipation. Day 1 will focus on hands-on training with leading digital forensics tools used in crimes against children investigations, including practical workflows for triage, review, analysis, and investigative decision-making. Day 2 will explore free and low-cost tools, victim identification tradecraft, rescuing children from trafficking, and an introduction to ICACCOPS. Crimes against children investigators can also join online for the entire DFRWS USA 2026 week at a deep discount, making this one of the most affordable ways to access high-quality training, research, and community engagement. You can't beat $25 for a week of online training! We'd love to see you in-person at the workshop too - $25 for in-person at the workshop (Saturday and Sunday July 25-26), then online for the rest of the week. Or get 10% off from us for attending all week in-person. This is practical training for the people doing the work. Agenda, registration, and discount details: projectvic.org/training. You must register through DFRWS to attend virtually or in-person. Please share with ICAC investigators, forensic examiners, analysts, prosecutors, task force commanders, and agency technologists who work to safeguard children from sexual exploitation and abuse.

We are leading a two-day workshop this coming Monday and Tuesday alongside colleagues from @MSAB_XRY @MagnetForensics @webiqnl @ChildRescueCo @SwedishPolice @DFRWS to train nearly 50 people who work in the crimes against children investigation community. This is occuring at the DFRWS-EU conference in Linköping, Sweden. Digital Forensics Research Conference (DFRWS) is a gathering of some of the brightest minds in digital forensics. Thank you to Linköping University for hosting us! Check out the article on our website for details. While you are on the website, can I ask you to become a financial supporter of Project VIC to help us offset our costs for doing things like this. We are a charity. Click the GOLD box on our website to get started. Any amount is helpful. projectvic.org/dfrws-eu-2026…

Our Team Continues To Grow! Project VIC International is proud to welcome John Pizzuro to our Board of Directors. John currently serves as Head of Law Enforcement & Safety Policy at Snapchat and previously served as CEO of Raven. He is also a retired Internet Crimes Against Children Commander with the New Jersey State Police, with decades of experience advancing child protection, online safety, and support for law enforcement professionals working these difficult cases. John’s leadership across law enforcement, policy, and child safety will strengthen Project VIC International as we continue building technology, partnerships, and investigator-centered capabilities and education to help protect children worldwide. Please join us in welcoming John Pizzuro to the Project VIC International Board of Directors.

Happy Holidays! We have had some initial successes with our GPUs for Good initiative. In the first two months we have received seven requests for a GPU from ICAC Investigators around the USA. Our charity needs donations to help offset the cost of shipping these GPUs to the ICAC Investigators in need of them. We test each donated GPU, and then ship it via UPS or Fedex which costs $30-$50 for each box. Your donation today helps put capability directly into the hands of these investigators which in turn leads to rescuing children from exploitation and abuse faster. See our website gpusforgood.org for the details about this program and to donate today.

Today is Giving Tuesday, and I’m asking for your help to financially support a mission that most people never see but that quietly helps rescue children every single day from sexual exploitation. At Project VIC International, we build and maintain important parts of the digital backbone that thousands of child exploitation investigators rely on worldwide. Every year, we equip 400 new police officers with Project VIC hash intelligence, helping them find and identify child sexual abuse material on offenders’ devices faster. Thirty different commercial digital forensics tools let officers import Project VIC hashes to help them rapidly find known child exploitation material on the suspects phone or computer. Officers then can use those same tools to create and share new Project VIC hash intelligence with thousands of other officers. When you hear about arrests of child exploitation offenders on the evening news, there is a very high chance—often cited around 90% in some jurisdictions—that Project VIC hash intelligence played a role behind the scenes. We are intentional about how we use every donated dollar. We receive no government funding. Your one-time or recurring gift can be tied directly to real, concrete needs, including things like: 🫂Say "thank you" by giving $5 monthly in honor of an Internet Crimes Against Children taskforce investigator you know personally. 🚪Give $29 a month to keep projectvic.org online and secure — the front door to our technologies, training, and services for investigators. We don't charge investigators for anything we have. 🛩️Supporting the development of our VICSafer tool, already used by dozens of law enforcement agencies, as we launch the next-generation release this December. Your donation helps support our data labeling and model training efforts. Consider powering the new initiatives we announced in 2025: 🖥️GPUs for Good – raising awareness of the GPU gap in law enforcement and now shipping our first GPU to a police digital forensics lab. Give a $50 one-time donation to help ship a GPU to an investigator in need anywhere in the USA. ♾The Crimes Against Children Ontology (CAC Ontology) – an open, shared language to help investigators connect the dots and find the “needles in the haystack” faster. Consider giving a $20 monthly donation to help us expand the CAC Ontology so that it addresses more language concepts used by investigators. 2025 is a year of transition for Project VIC International. Our founder and CEO is retiring, and our current Chief Technology Officer Cory Hall will be stepping into the role of CEO on January 1st. We have created a steering committee and grown our volunteer team in 2025. Our goal is simple: protect and strengthen what has been built, while expanding our impact to help even more investigators who help children. If you’ve ever wondered how to directly support those on the front lines of these investigations, this is one way to do it. 📷 Please consider making a Giving Tuesday donation (or setting up a monthly gift) to Project VIC International today at secure.givelively.org/donate… We are also listed in Benevity for those of you that want to make matching donations via your corporate giving portal. We also have a Daffy campaign for GPUs for Good if you would like to use a Donor Advised Fund: daffy.org/campaigns/gpus-for… Thank you for standing with us as we support the investigators and the children they serve.👮

We bet that you have family members and friends that play video games. Most serious gamers own at least one GPU - one that they use, and another older one that they don't use any more because they upgraded. Ask them to consider donating that older GPU to charity via Project VIC International's GPUs for Good initiative at gpusforgood.org so that we can turn it into a tool that helps our law enforcement parterns find and resuce children from sexual abuse. Donations are tax deductible.

We’re excited to share recent progress at Project VIC International! Last week, we welcomed 13 new investigators specializing in crimes against children into the Project VIC hash intelligence ecosystem, and helped two additional law enforcement agencies license PhotoDNA. In the past five years alone, over 2,300 police officers have joined our global network to use Project VIC hash intelligence. Project VIC hash intelligence and PhotoDNA are essential tools for investigators and forensic examiners. Hash intelligence allows law enforcement to quickly identify known child sexual abuse material (CSAM) images and videos in large collections, speeding up investigations and helping officers focus on locating unknown material—where new victims can be found. Best of all, Project VIC hash intelligence is provided free of charge to law enforcement officers investigating crimes against children, and it is supported by most commercial digital forensics tools. PhotoDNA groups visually similar images, making it easier for investigators to work faster and reduce their exposure to harmful content. Learn more about how PhotoDNA works: [projectvic.org/photo-dna](projectvic.org/photo-dna) We’ve also updated our FAQ page for the new GPUs for Good initiative. Check it out here: [gpusforgood.org/frequently-a…](gpusforgood.org/frequently-a…) Thank you to everyone supporting our mission—you’re helping protect children and bring offenders to justice. Project VIC International is a non-profit 501(c)(3), EIN 83-0986212. Financial donations help us fund our mission to help enable thousands of law enforcement officers around the world who work each day to find and rescue children from sexual exploitation and abuse. Consider making a one-time or monthly [donation](secure.givelively.org/donate…) to help us continue our mission

We’ve had an incredible week sharing details about our new pilot initiative "GPUs for Good" at the Northwest ICAC Conference and the INHOPE Summit in Washington, DC. The response has been great: 1. A federal law enforcement agency is looking into the possibility of pulling GPUs from decommissioned machines for donation. This helps get excess federal resources into state and local law enforcement channels. 2. A university digital forensics lab that we gave some training to recently is looking into donating several older GPU cards from decommissioned lab machines. 3. Trust & Safety leaders in tech are now checking their labs and data centers for excess GPUs to contribute. 4. We've had a few individuals commit to donating an older GPU. This is why we launched GPUs for Good: to repurpose excess GPUs so child-exploitation investigators can run AI workflows faster and clear case backlogs. If you upgraded a gaming PC, retired a crypto rig, or turned over GPUs in a video or research workflow—those cards can change lives. ✅ Donate GPUs or funds (tax-deductible): gpusforgood.org 💌 Leads or questions: [email protected] Let’s keep spreading the word. Every donated GPU card helps investigators move faster—so kids can be found and rescued sooner.

Hello Friends! Thank you for supporting Project VIC International over the last decade so that we can help so many law enforcement officers find and rescue children from sexual exploitation. Our new "GPUs for Good" initiative has started and we are getting some good buzz in the first few days. We have the first 10 GPUs already donated and am working to match them up to Internet Crimes Against Children task force investigators who can put them to work. Would you consider financially supporting this initiative today? If so, we would be very grateful. Testing and shipping GPUs to law enforcement around the country costs our charity money. Donations go a long way to offsetting these costs. Here is our EIN if you want to look us up: EIN # 83-0986212. Check out our fundraising platform on Give Lively to make a donation today: secure.givelively.org/donate… Join the mission and become a hero today!

Big news: Project VIC International and Sumuri are launching "GPUs for Good"! Many child-protection investigators don’t have the GPUs needed to run today’s AI tools. Our pilot initiative "GPUs for Good" repurposes donated graphics cards and funding to equip ICAC task forces—helping them process evidence faster and rescue children sooner. Here’s how you can help: • Donate a GPU (NVIDIA 20-series or newer is ideal) • Donate funds to cover testing and shipping • Share this post to spread the word This pilot runs through March 2026. Huge thanks to Sumuri for donating their excess GPUs to kick things off. Learn more or donate: gpusforgood.org Questions: [email protected]