The former acting director of cybersecurity for the US Department of Health and Human Services is one of 6 so far to be convicted in an ongoing FBI investigation that used drive-by malware to track the online activities of child abusers. 
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GCHQ and police team up to hunt down child abusers on the darknet
A major crackdown on child-abuse imagery includes a new law making it illegal for an adult to send a sexual communication to a child. 
US Attorney General urges tech companies to leave back doors open on gadgets for police
Don’t lock police out of popular consumer gadgets, lest law enforcement’s efforts to nab kidnappers or child predators be stymied, the US AG said, becoming the latest of a string of government officials to speak out since Google and Apple announced they were changing encryption on their mobile operating systems.
Child abuser sues Facebook and page admin over allegedly posting his address
The administrator of the paedophile-monitoring site admitted in High Court to “naming and shaming” 400 sex offenders on the Facebook page but denied posting the address. As of Thursday, the case had been continued as un-redacted evidence was sought. 
Mother tracks down Facebook predator who lured son away from home
The child predator persuaded the boy to meet him by threatening suicide. Even after his mother told Adam Brown to block contact with her son, he persisted in messaging the young teenager. 
Facial recognition software leads to arrest after 14-year manhunt
A former US resident from New Mexico was captured in Nepal after 14 years on the run. The fugitive’s passport photo matched up with a newly issued wanted poster. Does the capture of a suspected child abuser justify the use of a technology that hasn’t yet had privacy implications ironed out?
Microsoft scans email for child porn images, leads to arrest
Microsoft detected two illicit images of a young girl when they were uploaded to a Pennsylvanian man’s OneDrive cloud storage account. Before anybody starts worrying about snooping, be assured that humans weren’t involved in looking at the email; rather, Microsoft’s own PhotoDNA matched the images to those of known child abuse images. 
Google tips off cops after spotting child abuse images in email
A 41-year-old resident of Houston, Texas has been arrested after Google tipped off police that they had spotted child abuse images in his emails.
Child abuse images dragnet snares 660 suspected paedophiles
Doctors, teachers, scout leaders, care workers and former police officers – all professions that entail unsupervised access to children – were among 660 who’ve been arrested in an unprecedented child abuse image dragnet in the UK. 
Police dog catches paedophiles by sniffing out their hidden hard drives
Police detection dogs are the latest tool in investigators’ arsenal when it comes to finding gadgets that might contain illegal images of child abuse, sometimes hidden in metal tins four layers deep inside a filing cabinet.