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rising profile of the Hotline. Figure 3.2 shows the trends in reports of suspected child abuse material
in the two main places where such material is found that were received 235 by the Hotline in the period
2005-2010. 236
Figure 3.2 Annual reports – including content reported in duplicate – according to place where found
Amount
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2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
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E-mail
Website
[In the time-scale shown, the majority of all suspected child abuse material reported was found on websites
or received by e-mail – between 84% in 2006 and 95% in 2009. The proportion of suspected material
received by e-mail was greatest up to and including 2005 237 . However, since 2006, e-mail has only
played a small role (which is still declining) – from 12% in 2006 to 1% in 2010. It is possible that e-mail
is being used less and less as a means of distributing child abuse material. However, the introduction of
the new report form on the Hotline website could (partially) account for this fall in the trend. 238 Other
places where material has been found include newsgroups, chat rooms and peer-to-peer programs, for
example.
Figure 3.3 shows the proportion of unique reports that actually involve child abuse material (according to
the Hotline Combating <strong>Child</strong> <strong>Pornography</strong> on the Internet) compared with the total number of unique
reports, i.e. not including content reported in duplicate, shown for the years 2007 to 2010 inclusive. 239
This information was not available for previous years.
235 Including content reported in duplicate.
236 Please refer to Appendix 4, Table B4.2 for the table with a complete and detailed overview of these
data.
237 This in fact also includes the years 2001-2004 not shown here (Meldpunt Kinderporno op Internet, 2003,
2004, 2005 (annual reports 2002 to 2004 inclusive)).
238 Information supplied verbally by Meldpunt Kinderporno op Internet, 12 April 2011.
239 Please refer to Appendix 4, Table B4.2 for the table with a complete and detailed overview of these
data.