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Rakshak - Your internet protector

Rakshak is an all-in-one integrated solution for prevention of cyber-crimes like cyber bullying/harassment consisting of a web-extension, an android application and an admin dashboard website.

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Rakshak - Your internet protector

Rakshak is an all-in-one integrated solution for prevention of cyber-crimes like cyber bullying/harassment consisting of a web-extension, an android application and an admin dashboard website.

The problem Rakshak - Your internet protector solves

36.5% of kids aged between 12 to 17 have had a bully target them at
least once in their lifetime.
42% of LGBT youth have experienced cyberbullying.
33% of teenagers have sent explicit images or text to someone else at
least once.
66% of female victims have feelings of powerlessness because of
cyberbullying.
68% of children that have gone through online harassment have
experienced mental health issues.
Only 38% of cyberbullying victims are willing to admit it to their parents.
Cyberbullying victims are 1.9 times more likely to commit suicide.
We have built a software solution to curb such bullying/harassment in Cyberspace.
Our solution will:

  1. Work on social media such as twitter, facebook, youtube, etc.
  2. Should alarm the authorities.
  3. Provide facility to report such incidents to authority.

Challenges we ran into

We had many problems implementing the web extension. We thought of using APIs to fetch comments or tweets but it became difficult. So we decided to do web scrapping using the extension itself. We also faced many problems for converting the python machine learing code to javascript for our node.js server. Also, the ML code was slow at first so we had to optimize it further.

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