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In January 2014, a man was arrested as part of a major investigation into online child sexual exploitation. The individual had more than 80 social networking profiles, email addresses, and video chat accounts to sexually abuse children via webcams on compute

Once victims had sent him an indecent image or video of themselves, he started threatening them and involving them in far more serious abuse.

The youngest child was an eight-year-old girl she was forced to involve other children in the abuse. The suspect pretended to be a 13-year-old boy.

His case was one of a number highlighted in a report on sexual exploitation of children online, published by Europol, the EU police agency.

The suspect also coerced adult men into performing a sexual act via webcam which was recorded and used against them unless they paid money.

The report said it was not known if the indecent materials provided by the children were commercially distributed online, but added: Bearing in mind the profile of the suspect, this possibility cannot be excluded.

In a second case, a 17-year-old girl was a victim of extortion which started when her boyfriend took a photo of her breasts with his mobile phone, and shared it with his 17-year-old friend.

The latter sent the photo via a social media platform to the victim to inform her he had it, demanding money and threatening her with publishing her photo elsewhere if she refused to pay.

Verbal blackmailing also took place at school. The girl gradually began to give him 10 or 20 over the course of a few months, totalling about 600.

In a third case, a 17-year-old boy in Edinburgh took his own life in July 2013. He had been targeted online by an offender who posed as a teenage girl and with whom he had shared indecent images of himself. The victim was then blackmailed by the offender, demanding money. He was told that if he failed to pay he would post the victims naked images on social networking sites.

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New York, NY (PRWEB) February 25, 2015

The Social Networking Sites(SNS) industry is benefiting from an increasing consumer base, as more Americans conduct services online. Additionally, SNS are attracting a growing share of advertising revenue, as they measure the effectiveness of advertising and leverage significant consumer information to accurately target such advertising and boost its effectiveness. As the industry leverages its consumer information, revenue is expected to grow in 2015, due to increasing disposable income, which is expected to boost consumer spending on discretionary services like subscriptions or add-ons.

Five years ago, SNS were much smaller and unable to monetize their services. During this time, the industry invested significantly in targeted advertising services and consumer controls. As the number of subscribers has grown, the amount of revenue per subscriber increased and costs per subscriber contracted. Industry profit, as measured by earnings before interest and taxes, is expected to expand in 2015, with major and smaller companies having a wide range of margins.

Despite high merger and acquisition activity, the number of enterprises is expected to grow, as opportunities for growth present themselves on new platforms and devices. As more SNS develop ways to leverage their consumer base, they will generate higher consumer and advertising revenue. Growing advertising spending and rising disposable income levels are expected to benefit the industry. However, the industry will be growing from a higher base in the next five years, and SNS are expected to focus on expansion in Asia and Latin America. Consequently, revenue is projected to grow at a slower average in 2020.

The vast amount of personal information shared on SNS has generated privacy concerns, which have been worsened by revelations that the government has been tracking personal information on these networks. The growing practice of data licensing, through which operators make their data available to industry partners, is triggering concerns among users. This growing crisis of confidence is expected to compel industry players to strengthen their privacy protection regulations in the coming years.

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The Social Networking Sites (SNS) industry includes social networking website publishers and developers. The industry does not include general publishers of internet content, online dating websites, online forums, online video games or other social game developers.

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Reddit, the social networking and news site, has joined Google in announcing a clampdown on the publication of explicit photographs and videos.

The move marks a shift for the company, which until now has had a hands-off approach to privacy, largely allowing its 160 million users to police their own forums within certain guidelines such as no child pornography or spam.

The change comes six months after hackers obtained nude photos of Jennifer Lawrence and other celebrities and posted them to social media sites including Twitter and Reddit. Lawrence likened the unauthorised use of photographs of her body as a "sex crime."

Reddit executives including CEO Ellen Pao, issued a statement saying that the shift was an attempt to "help grow Reddit for the next 10 years and beyond."

From March 10, any photograph, video or digital image of a person who is nude or engaged in a sexual act will be prohibited if the subject has not given permission for it to be used and anyone who wants an image of themselves removed from the site can email the company.

Google announced this week that it would be banning most nude photos and video from publicly accessible sites on its popular Blogger service.

In an update to its adult content policy, it said that any blog created before 23 March that contains sexually explicit content will now automatically be made private.

"No content will be deleted, but private content can only be seen by the owner or admins of the blog and the people who the owner has shared the blog with," said Google.

Users can choose whether to remove the explicit images in order to make it public again, or keep their blog private, which means it will also not appear in Google search results.

Social media sites have varying policies on nudity. Facebook prohibits images containing nudity altogether. Twitter does not mediate legal content but recommends that content with nudity or violence be marked as sensitive. It also lets users flag questionable content for review.

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