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RSS child benefitWill's Web Watch: Do surfers really love to hate?
Comment Take child pornography as an example. Those who promote homophobia, racism and religious persecution have all found their way online and are finding it the ideal way to voice their opinions from the comparative safety of... [12 May 2004]
Computer Crime: A Joint Report
White Paper Child pornographers and pedophiles entice and exploit children via the Internet. With nominal resources, people and institutions can, via computers, leap state and national boundaries to explore vast stores of... [25 Feb 2004]
Robot child funding sought by Japanese researchers
News Japanese researchers are pressing the government to invest in an ambitious robot development scheme, with the aim of creating a machine with the artificial intelligence of a human child, reported the Japan Times. [27 Aug 2003]
Comet kicks off seminars to make parents web-wise
News A spokeswoman from the NCH said: "The internet is a fantastic resource for parents and children, and with the new term starting, every child of school age will have access to the internet at some point, whether in class... [22 Aug 2003]
'E-baby' on the way thanks to online sperm bank
News Proving there's now very little you can't buy online, a UK couple have conceived a child using an online sperm bank, after their GPs refused to help. Online sperm banks have accelerated the process of finding sperm for... [30 Jun 2003]
Wanted: porn watcher
News Kerr's successor can expect to be paid around £50,000 a year to work with child protection agencies, the Home Office, police and ISPs in their battle to curb the proliferation of illegal material, particularly... [07 Jan 2002]
Thus exorcises its Demon: winning the net monitoring argument?
Comment He wrote: "Thus should quit insulting the ethics of other ISPs with its conceited self-righteousness (assuming this is the cheap PR stunt it appears to be), stop attempting to capitalise on the existence of child porn... [26 Feb 2001]
Lack of funds leave web watchdog 'lame and toothless'
News Industry observers say the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) is desperately under resourced, and cannot hope to make good on its pledge this week, to monitor newsgroups for child pornography. Keith Monserrat, director of... [21 Feb 2001]
Euro crashes French post office system
News The French Embassy said it was only aware of "problems with La Poste savings accounts" and could not confirm whether unemployment benefit, child allowance or income support payments had been affected. [07 Jan 1999]
