Battling Child Exploitation with digital forensics is a well written article discussing the outrageous growth of child sex trafficking due to the growth of technology and the easy access to speedy communication around the world. The increase in this category of crimes is in a 1,000-percent increase since 2004. Along with that statistic, “The National Consumers League states 56 percent of children between the ages of eight and twelve have a cellphone, with the average age of receiving a first hone being 10-11.” Consequently, not even the growth of our technology fed world is the problem, but the age at which we are allowing technology consumption is as well a figure to be noted.
Predators today use the internet, phones, apps, etc. to commit …show more content…
These tools that are new and slowly being introduced to the field can extract information from mobile devices as well as properly decodes critical app data. Some countries such as Brazil have suspended apps that don’t abide by child exploitation laws. Some more advanced tools allow for the creation of watch list that make up key words, phrases, file types, names, and other identifiers hat can be highlighted and brought to attention if triggered on the device. All these new features can really make a difference as long as they are in the right hands such as law enforcement and forensic technology …show more content…
It asks, “should congress place a greater emphasis on digital forensics within applicable grant programs?” I think the clear answer is yes. As you wake up each morning and the date on your calendar changes so does the world including technology, the economy, people’s views, etc. It’s the twenty-first century and within a matter of time it takes for you to blink the twenty-first century as well as what we know about the world will be long gone because people are learning, growing, and reshaping their views of the world each day and you must move with them. We can’t necessarily keep up with the growth of technology every day, but we can fund the need to educate people on the use of this equipment whether at undergraduate level or graduate as well as fund the law enforcement departments so that they can have the right equipment to perform their job accurately and with better results. With such a large growth of exploitation to our future generation I don’t feel we have any other option than to fund for a safe and better future for
Predators today use the internet, phones, apps, etc. to commit …show more content…
These tools that are new and slowly being introduced to the field can extract information from mobile devices as well as properly decodes critical app data. Some countries such as Brazil have suspended apps that don’t abide by child exploitation laws. Some more advanced tools allow for the creation of watch list that make up key words, phrases, file types, names, and other identifiers hat can be highlighted and brought to attention if triggered on the device. All these new features can really make a difference as long as they are in the right hands such as law enforcement and forensic technology …show more content…
It asks, “should congress place a greater emphasis on digital forensics within applicable grant programs?” I think the clear answer is yes. As you wake up each morning and the date on your calendar changes so does the world including technology, the economy, people’s views, etc. It’s the twenty-first century and within a matter of time it takes for you to blink the twenty-first century as well as what we know about the world will be long gone because people are learning, growing, and reshaping their views of the world each day and you must move with them. We can’t necessarily keep up with the growth of technology every day, but we can fund the need to educate people on the use of this equipment whether at undergraduate level or graduate as well as fund the law enforcement departments so that they can have the right equipment to perform their job accurately and with better results. With such a large growth of exploitation to our future generation I don’t feel we have any other option than to fund for a safe and better future for