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Oct232020Guest Writer
Accessibility to technologies has changed the playing field
This is the conundrum that we are dealing with – technology is making our jobs more difficult and informing us at the same time. The law enforcement community needs to adopt to these challenges, and we need to be willing to try to learn new technology.
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Jul282020Guest Writer
Easy production and sharing drives the spread of child sexual abuse material
Child sexual abuse material is today stored on all possible devices and shared in all sorts of fora on the internet. The nature of sharing information follows the development of technology which throws up new challenges for law enforcement.
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Jun122020Guest Writer
Artificial Intelligence will be a major game changer
The technological development that is having the single most impact on child sexual abuse investigations is Artificial Intelligence (AI). I have used AI for many years now and in the past two or three years there have been some incredible developments.
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Mar012019NetClean
Only six countries comprehensively address online child sexual abuse
In a recent interview conducted at the #skillnadpåriktigt conference, Björn Sellström from INTERPOL mentioned that only six countries comprehensively address online child sexual abuse.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
