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Comment Online chatrooms don't have a great image right now. If the UK press and Countdown Queen Carol Vorderman are to be believed, paedophile monsters lurk in every one of them, disguised and offering young children pocketfuls of cyber candy. [11 Apr 2001]
CIA checks out chatrooms
News The CIA is quietly funding federal research into surveillance of internet chatrooms as part of an effort to identify possible terrorists, newly released documents reveal. The proposed system could aid the intelligence community to discover hidden... [25 Nov 2004]
MSN calls time on chatrooms
News Microsoft has officially shut down its MSN chatrooms in 24 countries - to cheers from child protection groups, sneers from rivals and an ambivalent reaction from its users. Microsoft touted the closures - which will affect British chatrooms, but... [15 Oct 2003]
Behind the Headlines: Site owners should pay to police child chatrooms
News Most of the chatrooms visited are run off individual sites and it's up to the brand that owns the website, chat room or forum whether they are prepared to invest in moderation. The claim came from Robert Marcus of chatmoderators.com in this week's... [23 Mar 2001]
Motley Fool charging for chatrooms
News Personal finance site The Motley Fool is advising web users of a new way to invest their hard-earned cash - subscribing to the site's discussion boards. From 14 February US chat room users will be charged an annual fee of $30 to discuss investment... [31 Jan 2002]
Child abuse cases prompt sweeping changes to chat rooms
News The report - which isn't due to be published until next week - calls for the creation of a kitemarking programme for chatrooms by the end of this year, as well as a major marketing campaign to educate parents and children of the dangers of using... [15 Mar 2001]
Is MSN hiding behind social responsibility?
Comment MSN has announced it is to scrap its chatrooms over concerns about child safety in the wake of a number of high profile scares and incidents involving children who have been contacted by paedophiles online. [24 Sep 2003]
Parents and kids educated on the threat of web paedophiles
News The UK government has launched a new initiative to better educate parents and children on the risks of internet chatrooms and the paedophiles who prey upon them. It is hoped the new initiative will crackdown on the practice of 'grooming' whereby... [06 Jan 2003]
One in five kids hit by 'digital bullying'
News One in five youngsters has suffered from 'digital bullying' either by text messages, email or in internet chatrooms. Other forms of digital bullying experienced included abuse in internet chatrooms (five per cent) and via email (four per cent). [07 Jun 2005]
Blair pumps £1.5m into 'safe surfing for kids' campaign
News The UK government will launch a £1.5m national newspaper and magazine advertising campaign later today in a bid to improve child safety in internet chatrooms. Paedophiles are dangerous - not internet chatrooms," Hughes will say. [02 Dec 2001]
Will kitemarks keep your child's chatroom safe?
News In response to growing fears that children are vulnerable to paedophiles on the internet, the UK Home Office last week published a report advocating that chatrooms for children be moderated by a responsible adult and stamped with a kitemark to... [21 Mar 2001]
'Grooming' will land paedophiles five years in prison
News Grooming typically involves paedophiles befriending children in internet chatrooms, often pretending to be of the same age, or to have similar interests. The law is divided into two areas, one to tackle people who simply use chatrooms to befriend... [29 Jan 2003]
Schools do battle with cyber bullies
News Cyber bullying can range from abusive text messages, emails and phone calls, to bullying in internet chatrooms or on social networking sites. The new guidelines recommend: school anti-bullying policies should include strategies to deal with... [25 Jul 2006]
AOL accused of failing to halt racist slander
News Forty-three year old Saad Noah from Crest Hill Illinois is taking the action on behalf of the many Muslim users of the "Koran" and "Beliefs Islam" chatrooms who he says have been subjected to harassment for years. [31 Aug 2001]
Campaign aims to protect kids from online dangers
News The aim of the campaign is to make parents aware of the potential for paedophiles to use the internet to 'groom' victims, as well as advising young web users how to keep themselves safe on the internet and reiterating the message that they shouldn... [08 Jan 2004]
