- Sep242018NetClean
How web crawlers can help find child sexual abuse material
In our series on the Technical Model National Response and technologies that are used to find online child sexual abuse material, we now look at web crawlers and how they can be built to look for this illegal material.
- Sep172018NetClean
Can filter technologies help to stop child sexual abuse material?
There are different types of filtering options, but in the most basic of explanations all filter technologies look at web traffic that passes in and out from the company and decides what is allowed to pass through.
- Sep112018Anna Borgström
Business engagement is key to meeting UN’s goal to end exploitation of children
In 2015, world leaders signed up to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The targets also specifically look at the welfare of children: End abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all forms of violence and torture against children (16.2).
This is how businesses are key to meeting those goals. - Aug292018Guest Writer
We need to teach kids safe internet behaviour
Australian Taskforce Argos tracks offenders behaviour online and comments on the findings in the 2017 NetClean report, highlighting that the best thing we can do for children is to teach them to be safe online.
- Aug212018Guest Writer
The problem is not increasing — we’re getting better
Police officers say year on year that they are getting busier fighting online child sexual abuse crime. in the NetClean 2017 report two new factors were mentioned as reasons – the wider use of the internet and increased number of reports from industry. We asked Europol’s Steven Wilson to comment.
- Aug142018Guest Writer
We can only speculate as to what the real numbers are
Even though we have an understanding of where child sexual abuse happens, we cannot say for sure how frequently it occurs and how much abuse is shared on the internet. Björn Sellström from Interpol comments on the findings from the NetClean 2017 report.
- Jul172018Guest Writer
The correlation between viewing child sexual abuse material and hands-on abuse – Two points of view (2)
Following on from the last blog post, our next expert, Reg. Psychologist Hanna Harnesk Hjortsberg, argues that the correlation between the two crimes can be viewed differently.
- Jul132018Guest Writer
The correlation between viewing child sexual abuse material and hands-on abuse – Two points of view (1)
Michael Bourke from the United States Marshall Service, comments on the finding from the NetClean 2017 report that showed that there is a correlation between viewing online child abuse material and hands-on sexual abuse.
- Jul062018Guest Writer
It shouldn’t be a numbers game
There is much talk about increasing sizes of caseloads and number of child sexual abuse images in circulation – something we sought to contextualize in the NetClean 2017 report by finding out how big a “normal” case is. We asked Taskforce Argos to comment on the findings.
- Jun272018NetClean
Blocking as a way of stopping child sexual abuse material
We’re running a series of blog posts that look at some of the technologies available to tackle child sexual abuse material. First out is blocking.
- Jun192018Guest Writer
Technological development means positive change
In the NetClean 2017 report we found that anonymization technologies, encryption and cloud storage are increasingly being used to share online child sexual abuse material. However, it is important to also realise that technology is advancing detection and collaboration, which aids us in fighting this crime. Arnold Guerin elaborates.
- May312018Guest Writer
It’s important not to believe in the stereotype
In the NetClean 2017 report, we asked whether there is such a thing as a typical offender who consumes child sexual abuse material. Hanna Harnesk Hjortsberg, a Registered Psychologist working at the Swedish Prison and Probation Service, commented on the findings.
- May172018NetClean
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.
- May162018Guest Writer
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.
- May152018Anna Borgström
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.
- May032018NetClean
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.
- Apr252018Guest Writer
Ulrika Rogland: “Ensuring that the police receive the right resources is the biggest challenge”
Ulrika Rogland: “It is the Police that are struggling to find sufficient resources and build an organisational structure that suits the crime.”
- Apr162018Guest Writer
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.
- Apr112018Guest Writer
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.
- Apr102018Anna Borgström
A Europe that protects children
The EU Commission recently put out a statement highlighting concrete ideas for how to tackle illegal content online…
- Apr042018Guest Writer
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.
- Mar282018Guest Writer
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.
- Mar202018Guest Writer
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.
- Mar082018Guest Writer
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.
- Mar072018Guest Writer
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.
