On his own accord? Perhaps somebody warned him about the following possibility: A Lawyer armed with a cease and desist letter confronts him with the following:: There are probably thousands of people in that data dump who are under the age of 18 who were pretending to be adults. The FBI should put out a public message and advise all those who are publishing this data that there is a possibility that minors might be in data and they have been warned. It seems that After the FBI publically warns these publishers and the public they no longer will have Plausible deniability and could charged with the following if indeed minors are proven to be in the data (it would only take one): Child Trafficking and Pornography Act, 1998 5.—(1) Subject to sections 6 (2) and 6 (3), any person who—

(a) knowingly produces, distributes, prints or publishes any child pornography,

(b) knowingly imports, exports, sells or shows any child pornography,

(c) knowingly publishes or distributes any advertisement likely to be understood as conveying that the advertiser or any other person produces, distributes, prints, publishes, imports, exports, sells or shows any child pornography,

(d) encourages or knowingly causes or facilitates any activity mentioned in paragraph (a), (b) or (c), or

(e) knowingly possesses any child pornography for the purpose of distributing, publishing, exporting, selling or showing it,

shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable—

(i) on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £1,500 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or both, or

(ii) on conviction on indictment to a fine or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 14 years or both