“The information from Facebook was absolutely crucial to this case,” Cook said. Overall, the company made 90 referrals about Wilson to the US National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), a US non-profit organisation that helps find missing children and collects reports of online exploitation and abuse material. Under US law, technology companies have to report child sexual abuse material they find on their platforms to the NCMEC, although they are not obliged to proactively track down illegal content.
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