Child pornography

Press release - Parliament adopts temporary rules to detect child sexual abuse online

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Tuesday, July 6, 2021
Sex crimes, Articles, Human rights abuses, Human behavior, Crimes, Abuse, Birgit Sippel, Crime, Child sexual abuse, Internet privacy, Privacy, Child pornography

This legislation will apply for a maximum of three years, or fewer if new permanent rules on tackling child sexual abuse online are agreed in the meantime.

Key Points: 
  • This legislation will apply for a maximum of three years, or fewer if new permanent rules on tackling child sexual abuse online are agreed in the meantime.
  • Child sexual abuse material

    Online material linked to child sexual abuse is detected using specific technologies that scan content, such as images and text, or traffic data.

  • The Rapporteur Birgit SIPPEL (S&D, DE) said after the vote:

    Child sexual abuse is a horrible crime that violates human rights.

  • The agreement is a compromise between detecting child sexual abuse online and protecting users privacy.

Thorn's Automated Tool to Remove Child Abuse Content at Scale Expands to More Platforms through AWS Marketplace

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Monday, May 24, 2021
Computing, Crimes, CSAM, Amazon Web Services, Abuse, Child sexual abuse, Child pornography, Child sexuality, Articles, Crime

LOS ANGELES, May 24, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Thorn announced that Safer a holistic tool to allow platforms to proactively identify, remove, and report child sexual abuse material (CSAM) at scale is now available in AWS Marketplace .

Key Points: 
  • LOS ANGELES, May 24, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Thorn announced that Safer a holistic tool to allow platforms to proactively identify, remove, and report child sexual abuse material (CSAM) at scale is now available in AWS Marketplace .
  • The move makes the leading safety tool widely available and open to any content-hosting platform using Amazon Web Services (AWS).
  • The prevalence of child sexual abuse material, or CSAM, has exploded on the internet, with reports rising by over 15,000% in the last 15 years.
  • "Identifying, removing, and reporting it disrupts the cycle of trauma and can help remove child victims from active abuse."

4 arrested in takedown of dark web child abuse platform with some half a million users

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Monday, May 3, 2021
Sex crimes, Articles, Child sexual abuse, Human sexuality, Crime, Sex offender, Sexual abuse, Abuse, Laws regarding child sexual abuse, Europol, Child pornography

Four have been arrested in a multi-agency operation sparked by a German investigation into one of Europes most prolific child sexual abuse platforms on the dark web.

Key Points: 
  • Four have been arrested in a multi-agency operation sparked by a German investigation into one of Europes most prolific child sexual abuse platforms on the dark web.
  • This site focused on the sexual abuse of children and had 400 000 registered users when it was taken down.
  • Several other chat sites on the dark web used by child sexual offenders were also seized on the same occasion.
  • The case illustrates what Europol is seeing in child sexual abuse offending: online child offender communities on the dark web exhibit considerable resilience in response to law enforcement actions targeting them.

Susman Godfrey Files Proposed Class Action Against PornHub, MindGeek Alleging Underage Sex Trafficking, Child Pornography

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Monday, February 22, 2021
Articles, Pornhub Network, MindGeek, Human sexuality, Youth rights, Pornhub, Pornography, Child pornography, Legality of child pornography, GirlsDoPorn

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --Susman Godfrey LLP filed a proposed class action against PornHub parent company MindGeek on February 19, 2021 alleging MindGeek has violated federal sex trafficking and child pornography laws by knowingly posting, enabling the posting of and profiting from thousands of pornographic videos featuring persons under the age of 18.

Key Points: 
  • LOS ANGELES, Feb. 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --Susman Godfrey LLP filed a proposed class action against PornHub parent company MindGeek on February 19, 2021 alleging MindGeek has violated federal sex trafficking and child pornography laws by knowingly posting, enabling the posting of and profiting from thousands of pornographic videos featuring persons under the age of 18.
  • While PornHub ultimately removed the videos, it warned her that it could not guarantee the videos would not be uploaded again.
  • These individuals are victims of sex trafficking and child pornography, they want to see an end to these harmful practices, and they deserve to be compensated for the damage MindGeek has caused."
  • The Susman Godfrey team is led by partners Arun Subramanian , Krysta Kauble Pachman and Davida Brook .

France arrests 14 suspects in sweep against child sexual abuse online

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Wednesday, January 20, 2021
Articles, Sex crimes, Sexual ethics, Human sexuality, Cybercrime, Sex and the law, Human rights abuses, Sexual abuse, Child grooming, Child pornography, Sextortion

The alleged suspects used social media networks to approach minors aged between 12 and 13 and lured them into sharing intimate images and videos.

Key Points: 
  • The alleged suspects used social media networks to approach minors aged between 12 and 13 and lured them into sharing intimate images and videos.
  • The arrested suspects are said to have had no links between them and three have already been sentenced.
  • It provides assistance and expertise in combating the distribution of child abuse material through all kinds of online environments and tackles all forms of criminal online behaviour against children, such as grooming, self-generated illicit material, sexual extortion and live-streaming.
  • - A campaign against online sexual coercion and extortion of children

Enough Is Enough Calls On DOJ To Investigate MindGeek For A Trifecta Of Potential U.S. Law Violations: Child Abuse Material, Trafficking Videos And Obscene Content

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Monday, December 21, 2020
Child pornography, Crimes, Pornography, Pornhub, Child sexual abuse, Internet pornography, Behavior, Sex and the law, Legality of child pornography

Child pornography, trafficking, sexual predation and obscenity laws were explicitly listed as key components of both Pledges.

Key Points: 
  • Child pornography, trafficking, sexual predation and obscenity laws were explicitly listed as key components of both Pledges.
  • It monetizes child rapes, revenge pornography, spycam videos of women showering, racist and misogynist content".
  • "Online pornographers, like Pornhub, are blatantly breaking U.S. laws every minute and getting away with it," alleged EIE President Donna Rice Hughes.
  • Research shows this content fuels a vicious cycle of abuse including child sex abuse, sex crimes, sexual exploitation, violence against women, child pornography (a.k.a.

Americans Are Acutely Unaware of the Prevalence of Child Sex Exploitation Online, New Study Finds

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Thursday, December 10, 2020
Sex crimes, Crimes, Crime, Child pornography, Articles, Sexual abuse, Child protection, Child sexual abuse

Those are among the findings of a new, national survey of 1,000 Americans age 18 and older by The NYSPCC, the U.S.s first child protection agency.

Key Points: 
  • Those are among the findings of a new, national survey of 1,000 Americans age 18 and older by The NYSPCC, the U.S.s first child protection agency.
  • Its critical to understand that the risk isnt just that children witness the sex abuse its that they become victims.
  • A big majority of Americans (78%) said they believe creators and viewers of child pornography are equally responsible for the exploitation.
  • The majority of Americans (81%) said if they suspected someone were sexually exploiting a child, they would report the person to enforcement authorities.

Press release - Detecting online child sexual abuse requires strong safeguards

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Tuesday, December 8, 2020
Sex crimes, Articles, Human rights abuses, Crimes, Crime, Abuse, Child sexual abuse, Data retention, Internet privacy, Child pornography, Sexual abuse

MEPs conditions on the use of technologies to detect child sexual abuse online

Key Points: 
  • MEPs conditions on the use of technologies to detect child sexual abuse online

    Online material linked to child sexual abuse is detected through specific technologies that scan the content, such as images and text, or traffic data.

  • Data retention

    When no online child sexual abuse has been detected, all data have to be erased immediately, say MEPs.

  • Parliament therefore wants existing legal scanning practices to continue being used for online child sexual abuse material.
  • The Commission proposed to temporarily amend the e-privacy directive to allow voluntary detection of child sex abuse online to continue, which would otherwise no longer be possible.

Online Safety Advisory: Child Rescue Coalition Finds Increase In Distribution Of Child Sexual Abuse Material In File Sharing Networks During Covid-19

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Thursday, June 4, 2020
Sex crimes, Human sexuality, Child sexual abuse, Human behavior, Child pornography, Abuse, Crime, Sexual abuse, Laws regarding child sexual abuse, Peer-to-peer file sharing, Humans

According to COO Glen Pounder, Child Rescue Coalition initially saw a decrease in the sharing of CSAM material in countries which had gone into lockdown.

Key Points: 
  • According to COO Glen Pounder, Child Rescue Coalition initially saw a decrease in the sharing of CSAM material in countries which had gone into lockdown.
  • CRC expanded the research to include April and May 2020 and now the findings show an increase in the sharing of CSAM on peer-to-peer file sharing networks.
  • "Child Rescue Coalition works with law enforcement all over the world to put a stop to child sexual abuse material which is being shared online but the physical abuse that is also happening to children every single day in the real world."
  • CRC's technology indexes 30 to 50 million reports of online users trading child sexual abuse material every day.

Canadian Centre for Child Protection calls on technology companies to do more to reduce child sexual abuse material online

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Friday, July 12, 2019
Sex crimes, Canadian Centre for Child Protection, Child pornography, Crime, Kik Messenger, Abuse, Articles, Sexual abuse, Human sexuality

WINNIPEG, July 11, 2019 /CNW/ - Every 12 hours the Canadian Centre for Child Protection (Canadian Centre) detects 10,824 new images of child sexual abuse online through Project Arachnid, an automated web crawler and platform designed to detect child sexual abuse images on the internet.

Key Points: 
  • WINNIPEG, July 11, 2019 /CNW/ - Every 12 hours the Canadian Centre for Child Protection (Canadian Centre) detects 10,824 new images of child sexual abuse online through Project Arachnid, an automated web crawler and platform designed to detect child sexual abuse images on the internet.
  • In light of the growing online availability of child sexual abuse imagery, the Canadian Centre is calling on industry to take action against thisglobal, social epidemic.
  • The rapid growth of online platforms that encourage content sharing has made the distribution of child sexual abuse material even easier than ever.
  • "Current practices to tackle the removal of child sexual abuse images are not working - more needs to be done by industry to detect and expeditiously remove child sexual abuse images.