User:Mykie0520/Cybersex trafficking

Internet platforms
Cybersex trafficking is partly an internet-based crime. Perpetrators use social media networks, videoconferences, dating pages, online chat rooms, mobile apps, dark web sites, and other pages and domains. They also use Telegram and other cloud-based instant messaging and voice over IP services, as well as peer-to-peer (P2P) platforms, virtual private networks (VPN), and Tor protocols and software, among other applications, to carry out activities anonymously.

Consumers have made payments to traffickers, who are sometimes the victim's family members, using Western Union, PayPal, and other electronic payment systems.

Dark web
Cybersex trafficking occurs commonly on some dark websites, where users are provided sophisticated technical cover against identification.

Social media
Perpetrators use Facebook and other social media technologies.

Videotelephony
Cybersex trafficking occurs on Skype and other videoconferencing applications. Pedophiles direct child sex abuse using its live streaming services.

Service Platforms
Perpetrators use Craigslist and other service platforms to engage in cybersex trafficking.Sex crimes on Craigslist include the involvement of underage girls being sex trafficked through the service platform.

Combating the crime
Authorities, skilled in online forensics, cryptography, and other areas, use data analysis and information sharing to fight cybersex trafficking. Deep learning, algorithms, and facial recognition are also hoped to combat the cybercrime. Flagging or panic buttons on certain videoconferencing software enable users to report suspicious people or acts of live streaming sexual abuse. Investigations are sometimes hindered by privacy laws that make it difficult to monitor and arrest perpetrators. Conviction rates of perpetrators are low.

The International Criminal Police Organization (ICPO-INTERPOL) collects evidence of live streaming sexual abuse and other sex crimes. The Virtual Global Taskforce (VGT) comprises law enforcement agencies across the world who combat the cybercrime. The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) funds training for police to identify and address the cybercrime.

Multinational technology companies, such as Google, Microsoft, and Facebook, collaborate, develop digital tools, and assist law enforcement in combating it.

On April 11, 2018, former president Donald Trump signed the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking of 2017(FOSTA). The legislation was created with the intention for states and prosectors to more easily prosecute sex traffickers and clarifies that S230 immunity does not protect against those who uses their ICSs for participating in sex trafficking activities.

Education
The Ministry of Education Malaysia introduced cybersex trafficking awareness in secondary school syllabuses.

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