Statistics obtained by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and recent court documents show that Amazon's chat app Wickr is the top destination for child sexual abuse and Wickr needs to do more in regards to identifying and taking steps to prevent child sexual abuse material being traded on their platform.
According to court records, online forums, law enforcement, and anti-exploitation activists, Wickr Me, an encrypted messaging software owned by Amazon Web Services, has become a go-to location for people to share images of child sexual abuse.
According to statistics acquired by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, or NCMEC, it's not the only internet platform that needs to crack down on illegal content.
Experts and law enforcement officials say Amazon is doing comparatively little to aggressively combat the problem, luring people who wish to trade such content because there is less danger of detection than in the brighter parts ...