Google, Facebook and Twitter join forces to combat child abuse imagery

Google, Facebook and Twitter have joined forces with the Internet Watch Foundation in a bid to remove potentially millions of child sexual abuse imagery from the web.

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.