EIJC17 & Dataharvest

A journalist and a data engineer were determined to trace those who downloaded child pornography thus creating the market demand for such material. The two were able to trace log-files of downloaders and traced a number of the men in Norway. For months they worked with the material and ended up confronting downloaders individually in different parts of the country. From the beginning they applied a set of ethical guidelines such as never opening any of the suspected files, a close cooperation with law enforcement and careful approach to the downloaders. Following their initial publication in Norway the team shared some of the almost 100.000 data entries of downloads from all over the world with colleagues in Sweden – under a strict agreements on the ethics. ttp://www.vg.no/spesial/2015/nedlasterne/?lang=en