An Indecent Risk
The alarming increase in children's access to pornography on the internet
Every year, the police receive thousands of reports of child pornography found on the internet. They must identify which of these are being used by predators, amid an increasing trend of exchanging nudes amongst young people.
One fourteen-year-old boy has been brought into the station for soliciting nudes from girls his age on Instagram. ‘We can’t rule out that an adult posing as a minor might be using this account to obtain pictures of children’, says Daniel Favre, an investigator. ‘We see children from the age of 3, 4, 5 years old filming themselves’, says Yanis Callendret, from the Swiss Federal Police. NCMEC is an organisation responsible for detecting child pornography online from around the world. In 2020, they sent 7,852 reports for the Swiss police to investigate. ‘We use video matching and other technologies to detect this kind of content’, says Rebecca Steinbach.
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