BlueBear is a private Canadian company focused on solutions in the fight against Child Exploitation. Our objective is to design and develop software that gives law enforcement and justice communities the solutions they need to do their jobs effectively, efficiently and successfully.
BlueBear’s technology was created because of demand from Law Enforcement agencies for forensic tools that would automate and assist in the expedient processing of trial cases. With this in mind, BlueBear provides a suite of tools for use by Law Enforcement specific to online Child Exploitation cases and the identification of individuals associated with these and other cases. BlueBear’s flagship product is called LACE (“Law Enforcement Against Child Exploitation”).
LACE is a unique tool designed to assist investigators in the automated categorization of media-evidence files (images & videos) that have been seized during the arrest of a suspected pedophile. This unique tool has been created to significantly reduce the amount of time required, by an investigator, to analyze and categorize seized images found on computer hard drives in child exploitation cases. At times the number of case media-evidence files that require review and categorization can be in the hundreds of thousands which can take a child abuse investigator months to analyze. With the implementation of LACE this process is reduced to days. A face identification tool built into LACE further permits police investigators to instantly locate similar faces across different cases.
The Company’s direction is to design and develop, automated, biometric and images and videos matching solutions, i.e., integrating biometrics and image recognition with information search and sharing technology, to fight online Child Exploitation and to assist in the Criminal identification process.
