Over a third of indecent images of children reported to police taken on Snapchat

OVER a third of indecent images of children reported to police are taken on Snapchat, according to shocking stats. The social media network is terrible at reporting the abuse on its platforms, with less than one per cent of the abuse reported to cops from the tech giant. 2More than a third of indecent images of children reported to police are taken on Snapchat, according to shocking statsCredit: Getty – Contributor Freedom Of Information stats from the NSPCC show that, 37 per cent of images reported to police between 2019 and 2020 were on the app. The charity are calling for great powers for regulators to step in. According to National Center for Missing & Exploited Children the global clearing house for online child abuse reports, Snapchat only made 0.67 per cent of reports of Child Sexual Abuse Material. Andy Burrows, NSPCC Head of Child Safety Online Policy, said: “These figures are staggering. “For far too long it’s been up to tech firms’ good will to stop abusers from targeting kids and preventing child sexual abuse images from being pedalled on their sites. “The massive gap between the harm taking place on Snapchat and the amount of abuse they’re detecting…
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