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RSS child abuseThe mobile industry in its own words
News In order to protect the positive sides of communication we have to fight the abuse. Viviane Reding, European commission for information society and media, giving her support for an alliance against child sexual exploitation on mobile devices. [22 Feb 2008]
Are UK data laws fit for purpose?
News He said: "This is about achieving strong governance in organisations that have such critical data and about limiting the scope for abuse in the first place. In what is now emerging as the UK's biggest ever data security breach HMRC admitted this... [23 Nov 2007]
Can biometrics secure the public's data?
Comment Abuse of this nature makes it really difficult to trace exactly who has accessed the data and it is a system that will inevitably be prone to security breaches. With the furore over 25 million missing child benefit records, the public sector's use... [23 Nov 2007]
Nonprofit Organization Increases Productivity and Operational Efficiency
White Paper Its award-winning classroom programs focused on youth violence, bullying, child abuse, and personal safety reach millions of children and educators every year. Committee for Children (CfC) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping keep... [28 Sep 2007]
UK leads fight against online child abuse
News The UK has been praised for leading the fight against online child abuse but Home office minister Vernon Coaker said more can still be done. Coaker said the work of the UK should be an example to governments in countries such as Russia and the US... [24 Oct 2006]
Banks to cancel paedophile credit cards
News Banks and building societies have been given new powers to find out if their customers have been using credit cards to access child abuse images on the internet. New figures from the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) show that half of all child abuse... [20 Jul 2006]
Consumer protection a DIY job on the net
News Self-regulatory bodies in the UK include TrustUK for ecommerce vendors, the Internet Service Providers Association (Ispa), the Internet Crime Forum and the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) which cracks down on child abuse images and criminally... [21 Jun 2006]
Websites told: Label smut or face prison
News It covers sexual intercourse of all types: bestiality, masturbation, sadistic or masochistic abuse, or lascivious exhibition of the genitals or pubic area of any person. Caving in to earlier demands from the US Department of Justice, the 24-page... [15 Jun 2006]
US heading for online data retention law?
News In a speech last month at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Gonzales said ISPs must retain records to help investigations of criminals "abusing kids and sending images of the abuse around the world through the internet". [31 May 2006]
Dedicated unit to tackle web paedophiles
News Among the new facilities housed by the unit will be a 24-hour resource to report online child abuse images and systems to track paedophiles across the world. The agency, which will be known as the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (Ceop... [24 Apr 2006]
Yahoo!: 'We need new cybercrime laws'
News has called for "effective" legislation combined with industry self-regulation to deal with online fraud, child abuse and other cybercrime. One example is 'child abuse' content, which has a different definition in the US than in the UK. [03 Apr 2006]
Opinion: Time to teach the internet watchdog some new tricks?
Comment The IWF may have done a good job in ridding the UK of child abuse websites. When it started, detecting child abuse sites and stopping paedophiles was the only threat. Either we should ask the IWF to expand the range of activities it covers or else... [13 Mar 2006]
Online child abuse - a decade on and the IWF reports progress
News The UK can be proud of its approach to tackling images of child abuse online as well as other criminally obscene and racist material, according to DTI minister Alun Michael, speaking at the launch of the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) 2005 annual... [09 Mar 2006]
We need UN body to combat cyber crime, says MP
News Police forces are already co-operating against offences such as online child abuse with initiatives such as the Virtual Global Taskforce, a "one-stop shop" website for children to report online paedophilia, launched by police from Australia... [24 Oct 2005]
Child porn: ISP regulations set for Commons debate
News The spokesman said: "Anything that's a step towards child safety and reducing the number of child abuse images on the internet is by-and-large a good thing. This technology, called Cleanfeed, prevents BT Retail customers from accessing a list of... [26 Jul 2005]
