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Nov222017Anna Borgström
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.
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Nov202017Anna Borgström
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.
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Oct272017Anna Borgström
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.
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Sep262017Anna Borgström
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.
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Sep132017Anna Borgström
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.
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Aug072017Anna Borgström
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.
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Jul252017Anna Borgström
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.
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Jul152017Anna Borgström
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.
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Jun292017Anna Borgström
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…
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Jun082017Anna Borgström
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.
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