Niel’s internet provider Free is popular with its French customers—and those “hosting and sharing” illegal CSAM images and videos, according to a new report.
, is not doing enough to tackle child sexual abuse imagery on its servers, according to The Canadian Centre for Child Protection. The nonprofit group alleges that nearly half of the Child sexual abuse material discovered during a two-year investigation it conducted was “physically hosted” and downloaded using Free’s telecom services.
In the report, titled Project Arachnid, the Canadian Centre for Child Protection says that those intent on distributing CSAM “have taken advantage of Free’s hosting service to anonymously store media online, and then disseminate the direct download link on forums across the internet.” Specifically, the report found that by using Tor-based chat forums and direct downloads rather than traditional webpages, “an unknown number of anonymous users are able to view the direct download links and passwords required to unlock and access the content,” the report says. “The total known availability of CSAM and harmful-abusive images or videos accessible through Free’s hosting service triggered more than 2.7 million flags, according to the report.
Xavier Niel founded the business in 1996, three years after starting France’s first internet provider, WorldNet.The results of this investigation do not come entirely out of the blue for Niel and Iliad’s leadership team who have been alerted to problematic content–although not CSAM–on their service in the past. In October 2007, Free’s file hosting service–dl.free.
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