- May172018
Searching for the Holy Grail
We are looking at the many different technologies that are available to tackle child sexual abuse material and the role that these technologies play in safeguarding devices and the Internet.
- May162018
Cybercrime and online child sexual abuse – In conversation with Neil J Walsh
We were recently fortunate enough to have a conversation with Neil J Walsh from the UNODC (UN Office on Drugs and Crime) about the UN’s work combatting online child sexual abuse.
- May152018
Become a frontrunner in the next phase of digitalisation
in Business, TechnologyNetClean’s Anna Borgström attended an event hosted by Telia Company, where business representatives and academics shared their thoughts on how to become a frontrunner in the next phase of digitalisation.
- May032018
Technical Model National Response
The model focuses solely on the different technologies and methodologies that need to be in place to effectively fight the spread of child sexual abuse material on a national level.
- Apr162018
Improving current responses: the need for evidence-based decisions
Researcher and lecturer Maggie Brennan, about how academia can contribute to efforts to fight online child sexual abuse.
- Apr112018
Mats Odell, Financial Coalition: “Technical developments give hope”
Trafficking, which includes child sexual abuse material, is the world’s third largest and most profitable organised crime. Financial coalitions across the world have however managed to ensure that the ability to pay for this crime through legitimate transaction channels has in the main ceased.
- Apr102018
A Europe that protects children
The EU Commission recently put out a statement highlighting concrete ideas for how to tackle illegal content online…
- Apr042018
Maggie Brennan: “We need better research for better intervention”
Maggie Brennan: Academic research is central to better, evidence-led decision making in the fight against online child sexual exploitation.
- Mar282018
Mats Granryd, GSMA: “Blocking child sexual abuse content is common sense”
Mats Granryd, GSMA: All organisations and businesses within the telecoms industry are aware of the problem of child sexual abuse content, and the industry is addressing it in many different ways.
- Mar202018
Susie Hargreaves, IWF: “Embracing partnerships is essential”
Susie Hargreaves, Internet Watch Foundation: There is a widespread perception that the business world doesn’t do enough to fight the dissemination of child sexual abuse material, so we spend a lot of time highlighting the good work that they do.
- Mar082018
Åsa Kastbom: “I feel privileged working with the children we have rescued”
Åsa Kastbom, Senior Doctor at the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, talks about how she has the greatest job in the world.
- Mar072018
Steven Wilson, Europol: “There has been significant improvement”
Steven Wilson, Head of European Cybercrime Centre, Europol: The problem of child sexual exploitation needs to be tackled on a global level. If we try to tackle it on a national level we will only have partial success. As a pan-European organisation, Europol has a position that enables a larger overview than a more limited national perspective.
- Mar062018
Collaboration – hearing from invested sectors and businesses
In The NetClean Report 2017, Part 2 of the report, we highlight what I believe is one of the main components of tackling online child sexual abuse crime – collaboration.
- Feb202018
It’s time to step up – and for businesses to lead the way
The first End Violence Against Children Summit sought to demonstrate leadership, build political will and increase knowledge on how to prevent, detect and treat violence against children – a global priority set out in 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
- Feb072018
Preparing for the End Violence Solutions Summit
in EventsThe coming Agenda 2030 for Children: End Violence Solutions Summit in Stockholm on 14-15 February promises two days of interesting and high level thinking and debate about how to end violence against children.
- Feb062018
Caroline Engvall: “A complicated crime that needs more resources”
Caroline Engvall, journalist and author who writes and campaigns on the issue of children in Swedish sex-trade and on child sexual abuse, about the need of more resources in the fight against online
- Jan312018
More than 3,100 children rescued
We are very proud of the fact that Ernie Allen agreed to write the keynote to the 2017 report. Allen is an adviser to governments, law enforcement and technology companies. He was appointed by the then Prime Minister David Cameron to chair the Global Initiative WePROTECT, which has the task of combating online child abuse and exploitation.
- Nov292017
Putting the offender in focus – The NetClean Report 2017
I am proud this week to announce the release of NetClean’s third report on child sexual abuse crime. Like previous years the report consists of data gathered from police officers across the world, with additional comments by expert professionals working to combat child sexual crime.
- Nov222017
The newest trends in child sexual abuse investigations – from encryption to live-streaming
The police officers who participated in the survey which formed the NetClean 2016 Report, highlighted a number of the challenges they face whilst working on child sexual abuse cases. Encryption, anonymisation technologies, live-streaming and “deleters” are the four areas that were most frequently mentioned.
- Nov202017
Illegal images of child sexual abuse can be found on any device
It can be surprising to learn that more than two thirds, 70 per cent, of the police officers that responded to the NetClean 2016 Report, reported working on cases that involved child sexual abuse material found on work computers during the last year.
- Oct312017
Collaboration and innovative technology make real change – #skillnadpåriktigt 2017
in EventsWe are very proud of the fact that Ernie Allen agreed to write the keynote to the 2017 report. Allen is an adviser to governments, law enforcement and technology companies. He was appointed by the then Prime Minister David Cameron to chair the Global Initiative WePROTECT, which has the task of combating online child abuse and exploitation.
- Oct272017
Putting Victim Identification first
In the survey which served as the basis for the NetClean 2016 Report, eighty per cent of the police officers questioned said that they or their department work with victim identification.
- Sep262017
Police officers are becoming better equipped to handle child sexual abuse investigations
In 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.
- Sep132017
Darknet or the open web – where is child sexual abuse material shared?
When 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.
- Aug072017
Investigations with terabytes of data and millions of images
The 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.
- Jul252017
Increased awareness of the female offender
Female 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.
- Jul152017
Child Sexual Abuse can be found everywhere on the net – social media is no exception
When 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.
- Jun292017
Can a growing problem be positive?
NetClean’s recent research showed that law enforcement across the world is dealing with an increasing volume of child sexual abuse…
- Jun082017
The myth of child sexual abuse happening ‘somewhere else’
There 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.
- Apr272017
The myth of the harmless hands-off offender
60-85 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.
- Apr092017
Efforts to stop child sexual abuse material – a hygiene factor
in BusinessSeveral 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.
- Apr052017
The future is here — The Internet of Things
in Events, TechnologyThe first End Violence Against Children Summit sought to demonstrate leadership, build political will and increase knowledge on how to prevent, detect and treat violence against children – a global priority set out in 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
- Mar132017
New report highlights importance of fighting child sexual abuse material
New report highlights how important the fight against the dissemination of child sexual abuse material really is.
- Feb032017
Doing business the right way
In January, Interpol announced that they have identified 10,000 child victims of online sexual abuse in their International Child Sexual Exploitation (ICSE) image database.
- Jan172017
How can businesses help prevent the sexual exploitation of children online?
That will be discussed at World Economic Forum in Davos, starting today. Ericsson is one of the driving forces behind the issue, co-hosting an event on the subject together with the UN Foundation.
- Dec202016
The NetClean Report 2016 – a unique insight into the fight against online Child Sexual Abuse.
In this, my last blog for NetClean, I want to highlight the recent NetClean report (2016). It is a unique report involving 360 police officers from 26 countries who answered questions and shared insights into their work…
