online child abuse
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 The IWF report has also found a trend for hosting non-commercial images of child abuse on Japanese message boards, as well as growing use of online photo album services posting images and distributing videos online. [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 Either we should ask the IWF to expand the range of activities it covers or else we should create a new one covering the whole spectrum of threats, including online child abuse. The IWF may have done a good job in ridding the UK of child abuse... [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]
UK anti-paedophile centre to be created
News A national organisation to tackle online paedophiles and support child abuse victims is to be set up next year. Police, businesses and charities are to work together in the centre, which will act as a single-point-of-contact for people to report... [15 Jun 2005]
ISPs should report online child abuse, says minister
News Internet service providers should be reporting incidents of online child abuse to the police and the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), a Home Office minister said today. Although BT and a handful of other ISPs are blocking child abuse websites as... [15 Jun 2005]
UK police set up anti-paedophile website
News It also offers a confidential channel for users to report online child abuse. Child protection on the internet is an issue where the UK has consistently led the world in our commitment to tackling the problem, in our readiness to work in... [27 Jan 2005]
150 arrests in online child pornography crackdown
News Some people involved in this type of activity don't see that viewing and disseminating photographs is a crime but every child pornographic image portrays a real victim and records an act of abuse against a child," Phelan added. [01 Oct 2004]
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