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<p>The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP), now a Command of the National Crime Agency (NCA), published its threat assessment “Threat Assessment of Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse” on 2 July 2013. The assessment made clear that the use of the hidden internet remains a key threat and that use of it by UK offenders as a method of sharing illegal images of children had most likely increased.</p><p>The NCA is committed to disrupting those who seek to sexually abuse children, and create, possess and share these images through any means and through the hidden internet. The Government is committed to this and to take further action, Britain and the US have joined up to target child abuse online through a new UK-US taskforce to work with industry to counter online child sexual exploitation.</p> |