This is the kind of tech we’ve been thinking should have been active for years. Justin Taylor says Canopy has “the most effective technology on the planet to block pornography.“

Canopy’s CEO says, “One of the big challenges of navigating the digital world is that explicit content no longer is limited to pornography websites. It can appear anywhere and everywhere, which renders many of the traditional safeguards ineffective.”

Canopy, an expansion of an Israeli tech developer, has developed a smart filter that “can detect sexually explicit content in real time and seamlessly remove it.” They also fight sexting by scanning images stored on the filtered device, flagging them, and offering the user to either delete them or send them to their parents for review.