Project VIC International

A tech-focused non-profit uniting law enforcement & technology to save children from sexual exploitation and abuse. Victims First!

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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.

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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.

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Come join us as we package up the first donated GPU for an Internet Crimes Against Children task force investigator in Washington State. We discuss the impacts that this GPU will have for the investigator.

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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 https://t.co/s7woSZTO43 for the details about this program and to donate today.

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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 https://t.co/Z8f4PibGRx 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
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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: https://t.co/Rje6fwASgl

Thank you for standing with us as we support the investigators and the children they serve.👮

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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 https://t.co/EYJE54o1o3 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.

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Since 2018, SUMURI Gives Back has equipped law enforcement with TALINO Workstations to help protect and serve communities.

Now it’s your turn to nominate a deserving agency!
Nominations open Nov 3–17, 2025.
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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): https://t.co/EYJE54o1o3
💌 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.

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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: https://t.co/IzqAS8eWNu

Questions: [email protected]

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Thank you to everyone who has helped make Project VIC a worldwide success, especially the thousands of crimes against children investigators who use Project VIC hash intelligence each day in their investigations. We have added over 2000 more investigators to the Project VIC community over the last five years. Thank you to all of the vendors and agencies that have adopted VICS and continue to support it, and to our friends at Kindred Tech who continue to develop and sustain VICS. If you are a digital forensics tool developer and want to join the VICS standard community, reach out to us today so we can help you begin the process.

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Check out the LinkedIn post from @911Cyber_ that talks about the history and work of Project VIC.

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Project VIC's successes were on the backs of so many people who wanted to take a chance to build something special from the ground up to assist them in identifying child abuse, so victims could be rescued quicker. So many leaders in the field contributed and sacrificed thier time to make it a reality. I would be remise not to add a few names to recognise them for thier outstanding contributions:
John Hancock (Hubstream), ICAC investigators, leadership from Tom Kerle, Rob Erdely, Arnold Gurien, Eric Zimmerman, Bill Harmon, Adrian Chandley, Eric Oldenburg, Joseph Versace, Jeff Rich, Jeff Nash, Antoine Normand, Steve Whalen, Cory Hall, J. Christianson, Camille Cooper, Jon Rouse, Peter Pilley, Guillermo Galarza, Ernie Allen, Michael Geraghty and Linda Chong Brown and many others.