DHS and FBI investigators are using Facebook profile IDs in court records – IDs that are easily used to look up their profile pages.
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YouTube bans kids’ live-streaming without an adult present
In another step to scrape pedophiles off the bottom of its shoe YouTube is banning youngsters from live-streaming without adult supervision.
Dad sues Facebook after 11-year-old shared photos and messages with men
The father of a young girl has sued Facebook for failing to enforce its age restriction policy after claiming his daughter was exposed to sexual predators when she signed up for an account at age 11.
Former US cybersecurity director gets 25 years for online child abuse
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. 
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. 
Facebook predator charged after posing as teenager to stalk girls online
A 22-year-old man from New Jersey has been charged with stalking one teenage girl and soliciting sexually explicit photos from another via Facebook.
Facebook ordered to disclose records on underage users
Facebook says it doesn’t keep them longer than six months, but a court in Belfast is nonetheless ordering it to hand over any records it might have or control about its underage users. The case concerns a girl who, starting at the age of 11, took out four Facebook accounts and used them to post sexually suggestive photos. 
FBI used drive-by downloads to track child porn suspects hidden on Tor
The FBI has been silently installing spyware in its quest to identify and prosecute criminals hiding behind the powerful Tor anonymity system. The technique’s a classic tool in the malware writer’s kit. Do the ends justify the means when it’s the law, using it to capture child abusers? 
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.