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  Rise in child abuse online threatens to overwhelm UK police, officers warn

  

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  Exclusive: Sheer quantity of abusive material hindering detection while Facebook move to greater encryption is a further blowThe vast, and growing, volume of child abuse material being created and shared online is threatening to overwhelm police efforts to tackle it, senior officers have told the Guardian.And the situation is likely to worsen, National Crime Agency (NCA) child abuse lead Rob Jones warned, if social media sites such as Facebook press ahead with further encryption of messaging services. Continue reading...

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  Facebook under pressure to resume scanning messages for child abuse in EU

  

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  Half of referrals for child sexual abuse material could be falling under the radar after changes...

  Half of referrals for child sexual abuse material could be falling under the radar after changes to EU e-privacy directiveThe children’s charity NSPCC has called on Facebook to resume a programme that scanned private messages for indications of child abuse, with new data suggesting that almost half of referrals for child sexual abuse material are now falling below the radar.Recent changes to the European...

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  How extreme porn has become a gateway drug into child abuse

  

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  Mainstream pornography sites are ‘changing what is normal’, warns child abuse expert Michael SheathMichael Sheath has...

  Mainstream pornography sites are ‘changing what is normal’, warns child abuse expert Michael SheathMichael Sheath has been counselling people with what he describes as “deviant sexual interests” for a long time.“I have been working with men who abuse children for 33 years. For the first 15 years I worked with child molesters and I still do that, but now I also work with downloaders...

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  Facebook's encryption plans could help child abusers escape justice, NCA warns

  

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  Warning comes as man admits using Messenger to coerce children into sending explicit picturesPolice and a...

  Warning comes as man admits using Messenger to coerce children into sending explicit picturesPolice and a children’s charity have warned that a man who admitted 96 counts of child sexual abuse could have escaped justice if technology giants had already toughened their encryption.David Wilson targeted young boys aged from four to 14, getting them to send compromising pictures and video. Some were so traumatised...

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