Landmark case against Twitter could help Peel Police’s ICE unit fight onslaught of online child exploitation

The force’s Internet Child Exploitation Unit has seen its workload grow exponentially over the last five years with reports of potential child sexual abuse material almost doubling every year since 2018. The volume of harmful images and videos uploaded every second is humanly impossible to analyze. 

Tech companies have taken little responsibility for their role in these criminal acts, but this could change as companies like Twitter and MindGeek find themselves before the courts. 

Published in The Pointer Brampton and The Pointer Mississauga August 25, 2021