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Police caught one of the web’s most dangerous paedophiles. Then everything went dark – Wired.co.uk

A trail of clues helped police close in on a dangerous predator. Now, a battle over the future of end-to-end encryption could change the rules of engagement

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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…

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