Law enforcement in modern culture is greatly enhanced by technology; criminals seem to have no chance. Unfortunately, the same technology that dazzles the business world has a dark side … it can be used just as successfully to do harm.
Parents are aware of the dangers that lurk near or around their children. Parents have security systems installed in their homes, children are almost always in sight, many practically conduct background checks on families inviting their children to play for even an hour, and although a parent may consider leaving a group of teenagers in a shopping mall, they wouldn’t dream of letting their child wander around a mall alone; These are just a few of the precautions the nation has grown accustomed to. Surprisingly, after taking all these precautions, parents unknowingly allow the criminal element to creep into their home.
“An estimated 10 million children are using the Internet unsupervised. By 2015, approximately 77 million children will be online. With so many children online, today’s predators can easily find and exploit them. For predators, the Internet is one way effective and more anonymous search and grooming of children for criminal purposes, such as producing and distributing child pornography, contacting and stalking children for the purpose of engaging in sexual acts, and exploiting children for personal and commercial sex tourism. industry “.
Human trafficking refers to the transportation of people for forced labor, sexual exploitation, or other illicit activities. It is estimated that more than 1 million people are trafficked annually around the world; some experts say it could be twice as long.
Human trafficking has become a global business that generates huge profits for traffickers and organized criminal groups. Because everything is secret, obtaining reliable statistics is a challenge.
But even so, it remains true that many women and children, especially those from abroad, are lured into trafficking, pornography or prostitution with the false promise of economic opportunity: a job, an income, a role in a movie or even a spouse or babysitting position. Job postings are very easy to post online. People desperately seeking employment or even temporary income are vulnerable; parents have sometimes fixed the situation thinking that they are leading their child away from a bad situation in which the child can excel. Many of those who accept these offers from what appear to be legitimate sources find themselves in situations where their documents are destroyed, they or their families are threatened, or they are tied up by a debt that they cannot pay.
Now, online predators increase their actions with less effort while remaining hidden. Traditionally, people who set their sites on children as prey would have to search for susceptible children in public areas: parks, schoolyards, libraries, or shopping malls. It took a lot of time to “win over” these potential victims. This can be achieved much faster and easier on the web. Children generally know to stay away from a stranger (and they have a concept of what a stranger will look like); But the Internet allows predators to hide their identity in such a way that children struggling for independence from Mom and Dad find it attractive. Children cannot see that the perpetrator is not another child, and many children are naturally confident, curious, or independent. These traits have always contributed to the success of the predator; but the information is easier to collect anonymously. Despite lectures at home AND at school, kids provide personal information in a chat room or instant messenger that they don’t realize can be quickly and easily traced back to their city … and eventually to them. Physical contact may never occur, but perpetrators have learned to attract children to service in many ways.
Advances in home furnishing make every home a target and anyone a predator. A predator doesn’t have to be a seedy rat hiding in a dark room with a computer. Anyone can start an online business. College students across the country do it every day. A minimal amount of technology is required; the school often provides the rest.
Most porn SPAM is sent regardless of who can open the file. A survey completed by the University of New Hampshire specifically for the Crimes Against Children Research Center showed that “one in five youth received a sexual approach or solicitation over the Internet in the past year … [and that] one in four young people had unwanted exposure in the past year to images of naked people or people having sex. “The goal is to hook children to pornography, accustom them to the images, and then entice them to pose as themselves. To sell Child pornography leads to another set of Internet-related businesses. Many aspects of technology contribute to the success of internet crimes, some of them include:
Encrypted websites. Anonymous browsing allows you to search without a trace from your browser, your computer system, your country, IP address, etc. You can achieve this by entering the address (URL) of the site you want to go to in the free anonymous browsing proxy site, and that site will retrieve the page and present it to you. The site you visit will not receive any information because the proxy will not have transmitted anything to it. People who want to buy pornography can dress up.
Web-enabled video streaming: With streaming video or streaming media, a web user does not have to wait to download a large file before watching the video or hearing the sound. Instead, the media is sent in a continuous stream and played as it arrives.
Deceptive domain names: Such domain names are designed to trick minors into visiting an obscene website. Some examples include whitehouse.com (instead of gov) and hummer.com; These sites explode with pornography when children accidentally click.
Email address lists: SPAMers frequent chat rooms specifically to collect users’ email addresses (and an advantage is that they can know specific interests). Many can legitimately or illegally buy lists, collect them from online profiles or yellow pages. Sexual or obscene SPAM is sent to minors and adults … but minors are less likely to check their email before opening and be surprised or intrigued by the images.
The issue is sensitive to both sides of the trafficking and smuggling problem: the countries of both the victims and the perpetrators. No country wants either party to be published. This secrecy contributes to the lack of stored data and the inability of law enforcement agencies to register patterns and capture criminals. The criminal aspect does not care about this stigma, they share information easily within their circle … making great strides on the good ones.