Several Twitter accounts disabled over child abuse contentDecember 24, 2012 - 17:20 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Several private Twitter accounts have been disabled after they were revealed to contain indecent images of children, according to BBC News. Some hacking groups are claiming to have unmasked them, the NSPCC said. Members of the public have reported the accounts to Greater Manchester Police and North Yorkshire Police, while Ceop - the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre - says it is "aware". The NSPCC asked people to "be vigilant" and report such suspicious activity. Ceop - the policing unit dedicated to eradicating the sexual abuse of children - said it had had 25 to 30 reports of these accounts. A Ceop spokesman said Twitter had disabled the accounts and would be reporting the find to the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) - Ceop's U.S. equivalent - which as an American company it was legally required to. "NCMEC will forward the account details to law enforcement in the countries where the individual concerned is," he said. It is unclear whether the images were uploaded by a UK user, or a user based abroad. The NSPCC said the accounts were made public in the early hours of Monday, Dec 24. "To be honest, it's not a massive surprise. In our experience sex offenders will use whichever mean they can to connect with each other. They are usually quite devious," a spokesman said. He asked people to be vigilant. "It you see something, or are aware of something, you should report it." As for those people storing such content, Professor Alan Woodward, of the University of Surrey's department of computing, said they were increasingly using social media rather than computers. "If they use the web to keep any pictures then they will be able to claim it wasn't them. The weight of evidence isn't the same." Twitter is yet to comment. Top stories Yerevan will host the 2024 edition of the World Congress On Information Technology (WCIT). Rustam Badasyan said due to the lack of such regulation, the state budget is deprived of VAT revenues. Krisp’s smart noise suppression tech silences ambient sounds and isolates your voice for calls. Gurgen Khachatryan claimed that the "illegalities have been taking place in 2020." Partner news Most popular in the section | Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. Aliyev says no need for mediators in Armenia-Azerbaijan process Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that Baku and Yerevan do not mediators in the process of normalizing relations. Aram I supports Karekin II’s “patriotic position” Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia Aram I has expressed support for the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. |