{"id":44568,"date":"2020-07-18T08:47:32","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T13:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=44568"},"modified":"2020-07-18T08:47:32","modified_gmt":"2020-07-18T13:47:32","slug":"nbc-inside-the-surveillance-software-tracking-child-porn-offenders-across-the-globe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=44568","title":{"rendered":"NBC: Inside the surveillance software tracking child porn offenders across the globe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NBC: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/tech\/internet\/inside-surveillance-software-tracking-child-porn-offenders-across-globe-n1234019\">Inside the surveillance software tracking child porn offenders across the globe<\/a> Olivia Solon (\u201cThe Child Protection System helps police triage child pornography cases. But as the system expands, it&#8217;s facing growing privacy concerns.\u201d):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>BOCA RATON, Fla. \u2014 In December 2016, law enforcement agents seized computers and hard drives from the home of Tay Christopher Cooper, a retired high school history teacher, in Carlsbad, California. On the devices, digital forensic experts found more than 11,600 photos and videos depicting child sexual abuse, according to court documents.<\/p><p>. . .<\/p><p>Police were led to Cooper&#8217;s door by a forensic tool called Child Protection System, which scans file-sharing networks and chatrooms to find computers that are downloading photos and videos depicting the sexual abuse of prepubescent children. The software, developed by the Child Rescue Coalition, a Florida-based nonprofit, can help establish the probable cause needed to get a search warrant.<\/p><p>Cooper had used one of the file-sharing programs monitored by the Child Protection System to search for more than 200 terms linked to child sexual abuse, according to the complaint.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBC: Inside the surveillance software tracking child porn offenders across the globe Olivia Solon (\u201cThe Child Protection System helps police triage child pornography cases. But as the system expands, it&#8217;s facing growing privacy concerns.\u201d):<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surveillance-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44569,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44568\/revisions\/44569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}