Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 2 October 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion
Mr. Michael Gubbins:
We are starting from scratch. Law enforcement works with various service providers. They give us training, they tell us what is available, they tell us how to understand the information they provide, and they tell us how to get it. They are also involved with bodies such as the Virtual Global Taskforce with regard to images of child abuse. They also report imagery to the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children, NCMEC, which is based in the US, and those cases are then forwarded to various countries for investigation. With regard to this particular phenomenon, we have to tell them about our problems and identify ways to work more closely with them.
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