Child abuse victims are seeing their identities exposed by the DOJ, which is openly publishing their Facebook identities and initials. In the last month alone, children in the U.S. and the Philippines have been affected as a result.
Share to twitterIdentities of child abuse victims are being publicly disclosed thanks to the publication of their Facebook IDs by U.S. federal agencies.The U.S. government is revealing the identities of global victims of child abuse,Investigators at the FBI and the DHS have failed to conceal minor victims’ identities in court documents where they disclosed a combination of teenagers’ initials and their Facebook identifying numbers—a unique code linked to Facebook accounts.
In one recently unsealed case in Nebraska, an FBI search warrant application not only provided the initials and Facebook ID number, but detailed explicit conversations between a then 14-year-old female minor and a 28-year-old male. In graphic personal private chats, they discussed sexual acts with one another. Facebook had provided the chats in a tip to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children , which then handed the information to the police.
In another search warrant application, a DHS investigator in Wisconsin disclosed three Facebook IDs of girls investigators believed to be targets of grooming in the Philippines. It was alleged that a 63-year-old man used the social media site to find and groom them. The man indicated he planned to visit the Philippines and had “expressed an interest in engaging in sexual activity with minor females.” Again the private Facebook chats of those apparent minors were disclosed in the warrant.
“I am amazed. Allowing anything to go into the public domain that would allow a child victim to be identified is absolutely forbidden. Pretty sure that if anything like that were to happen in the U.K. the persons responsible would find themselves in very hot water,” added John Carr, a consultant who previously worked with Microsoft and the U.K. government on child exploitation and internet safety.
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