Strategic move? Google, Facebook, Microsoft pledge to improve and standardise annual disclosures around online child exploitation

Strategic move? Google, Facebook, Microsoft pledge to improve and standardise annual disclosures around online child exploitation
Depressing stats sees social network remove 11.6 million pieces of child abuse content in three month period
The United States, UK, and Australia sign open letter to Facebook saying encryption helps child abuse, as they demand an encryption ‘backdoor’
Huge number of fake accounts disabled by Facebook over a six month enforcement period
Criminals increasingly utilising encrypted apps, rather than the dark web, to trade child abuse images
Sajid Javid pledges more cash, and demands tech giants tackle online child sexual abuse, or face legislation
Companies meeting in London to discuss ways to tackle online child sexual exploitation
Google reports a Gmail user to the police after discovering illegal images in his email
Investigation into online streaming of child abuse leads to 29 arrests
Evidence suggests hackers employed by the FBI managed to track some Tor users
More cooperation between child protection agencies should lead to a ‘cleaner’ Internet
A report claims there is a link between viewing indecent images of children and real-life abuse
Things have moved on since CEOP’s Facebook campaign, but child protection in social media still needs careful thought, says Peter Judge