encryption and privacy --- Where data encryption is used to hide or disguise a criminal act, this becomes a challenge to law enforcement and threats to the child. Since encryption is usually permitted to protect one's data, it is perceived to be within one's personal domain and any violation is seen as a breach of personal privacy. Exceptions can be made where the origin of the encrypted data may be electronically tracked and designated as "suspicious sexual content" in the same way that triggers are used to track money laundering activities; once designated as such, the suspected data can be redirected to some other data repository for further analysis and legal action or even erased after use as evidence.

Source author: Bennette Thomas thomasb@dominica.gov.dm