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Facebook shouldn’t be considered more mysterious to inform police when there is clear evidence regarding a crime. But, its recent action has had issues on a much bigger scale. More than 1,000 (under 18 years) young people were charged by Danish police when Facebook informed authorities that messenger users were frequently sharing a video of 2 girls (under 15 years) having sex. It was violating laws against the sharing or distribution of offensive and shameless images or videos of children. Police said that most of them shared the video a few times and others shared it hundreds of times. Police also said that they knew what they were doing, even if they didn’t realize it was illegal.

Everyone found involved in this act would face at least 20 days in prison. It is important that they’d also be listed to an offender registry for the next 10 years. Police said that the actions of charges are now taking place, but the last messages were shared or distributed in the fall of 2017. It was due to it has been considered a very large and complex case. The 4 Danish police agencies are participating in this investigation and came after US authorities relayed Facebook’s warning to Europol. It might be tricky to catch ad hoc sharing of illegal videos on messaging services like this. It is due to the private nature of the messages and because some specific users were involved using end-to-end encryption.