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Sep262017Anna Borgström
Police officers are becoming better equipped to handle child sexual abuse investigations
Read moreIn the NetClean Report 2016, 91.8 per cent of police officers surveyed said that they feel better prepared to handle child sexual abuse investigations this year, compared to the previous year.
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Sep132017Anna Borgström
Darknet or the open web – where is child sexual abuse material shared?
Read moreWhen asked the question ‘which methods are most commonly used to share and distribute child sexual abuse material?’ ninety per cent of the police officers who responded to the survey that formed the NetClean Report 2016, answered P2P/file sharing. File sharing was followed by darknet/TOR, social media, cloud based services and instant messaging.
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Aug072017Anna Borgström
Investigations with terabytes of data and millions of images
Read moreThe amount of material that law enforcement has to deal with continues to increase. Exactly how large the investigations and cases have become is difficult to say, but the NetClean Report 2016 included some examples. At the most extreme end, police officers reported that the largest cases are an astounding 100 TB, 100 million images and over 100,000 hours of video material.
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Jul252017Anna Borgström
Increased awareness of the female offender
Read moreFemale offenders are rare, but they do exist. Nearly half of the respondents in the NetClean 2016 Report, 47.5 per cent, said that they worked on cases involving female offenders during 2015. However, the vast majority of the police officers reported that it only makes up a very small number of investigations.
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Jul152017Anna Borgström
Child Sexual Abuse can be found everywhere on the net – social media is no exception
Read moreWhen looking at Social Media, the increasing number of platforms have also led to an increase in child sexual abuse material being shared using these spaces.
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Jun292017Anna Borgström
Can a growing problem be positive?
Read moreNetClean’s recent research showed that law enforcement across the world is dealing with an increasing volume of child sexual abuse…
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Jun082017Anna Borgström
The myth of child sexual abuse happening ‘somewhere else’
Read moreThere is a common misconception that the children in child sexual abuse material are primarily from Asia. However, our recent survey (NetClean Report 2016) show that the material that the police handle in their investigations primarily feature children from Europe and North America.
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Apr272017Anna Borgström
The myth of the harmless hands-off offender
Read more60-85 per cent of those who look at child sexual abuse material also commit hands-on sexual offences against children. It is a myth that there is a large group of hands-off offenders that are no danger to children.
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Apr092017Anna Borgström
Efforts to stop child sexual abuse material – a hygiene factor
in BusinessRead moreSeveral Internet Service Providers have committed to blocking websites on the open internet that are known to contain child sexual abuse material. In Sweden, there is a collaboration between the Internet Service Providers and the Swedish Police to reinforce this.
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Mar132017Anna Borgström
New report highlights importance of fighting child sexual abuse material
Read moreNew report highlights how important the fight against the dissemination of child sexual abuse material really is.
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