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More Europol’s “Stop Child Abuse” Photographs Geolocated - bellingcat
"July 2, 2019
By
Daniel Romein
In
November 2018, Bellingcat wrote about two photographs related to child abuse crimes – photographs which were geolocated to Shenzhen in China.
This investigation was crowdsourced by Europol as part of their
Stop Child Abuse campaign that has been running since 2017. Images are shared on their website with the goal to identify the objects in them, their country of origin, and/or the location where they were taken. Europol also shares these images on their
Twitter and
Facebook accounts. Sites like
Reddit and
Websleuths will also share these images with the purpose of discovering their origin.
Both the campaign and the crowdsourcing efforts around it have not gone unnoticed by the media.
The Guardian, for example, has written about Bellingcat’s involvement in this campaign.
BBC News broadcast an interview with Finnish architect Olli Enne, who geolocated the two photographs from a city in East Asia, originally shared by Europol in
October 2018.
On
1 February 2019, Europol shared
new photos. Two of these photos were shared in a
separate tweet. Just 23 minutes later, a Dutch citizen named
Maarten Kaskens posted a reply with a photograph of the same place and mentioned
the exact location, a cluster of summer homes between Moscow and Dmitrov, in a later tweet."
"What follows below is a recap of how these aforementioned photographs were geolocated."
