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Police swoop on Internet paedophiles
News Police arrested 30 people in a series of arrests across Britain on Monday morning as part of a crackdown into Internet child pornography. See the Net Crime News Section for the latest on fraud, crime, child protection and related issues.
[May 20, 2002, 16:56]
News Burst: Thus becomes first ISP to patrol for child porn
News ISP Thus has taken the unprecedented step of promising to remove known child pornography newsgroups from its servers amid growing concerns in the UK that the Internet is teeming with predatory paedophiles.
[February 21, 2001, 10:15]
ISPs told to step up child porn crackdown
News Eighty five per cent of complaints received by the hotline focused on child pornography. While the IWF has made child pornography its most urgent priority, it is set to target adult pornography, racist material and breaches of copyright.
[March 5, 1998, 12:05]
Police crack down on Net child pornographers
News Experts agree that paedophilia on the Net is on the increase as the police launch their biggest crackdown yet on Internet child pornography in the UK. Child porn on the Net has been back in the news since ex-pop star Gary Glitter was jailed for...
[December 10, 1999, 12:49]
Chat rooms targetted by Internet Watch Foundation
News Most of the cases involved child pornography. News groups and bulletin boards are the most likely source for images of child pornography according to Kerr. If you have information about child pornography on the Web, please contact the IWF Web site.
[March 2, 1999, 11:17]
News Burst: Internet child porn case to go online
News In a UK judicial first, a jury will access the Web Wednesday as part of a case involving the alleged distribution of child pornography on the Internet. Over £5,000 is estimated to have been spend installing high-tech equipment at Kingston Crown...
[January 9, 2001, 14:32]
Civil liberties groups demand halt to RFID
Talkback I won't start worrying until I start reading in mainstream newspapers how RFID will help in the fight against terrorism and/or Child Pornography.as we're now seeing with surveillance of P2P) Once that happens its probably time to head for the hills.
[November 24, 2003, 10:04]
Policing the unacceptable - Bringing paedophiles to justice
Talkback My husband has been addicted to pornography, and in particular child pornography, for many years. As far as I know, he never pays for anything by credit card, but has got many contacts/free internet sites who suply him with free pornography.
[January 15, 2006, 0:03]
EC gives 'police remote search' answers
Blog Comment So after hacking into the machine of a well known anti-government activist who has given them a hard time, they just happen to 'find' child pornography. On the other hand, surely even a half-way decent lawyer would use such a claim to disqualify...
[December 9, 2008, 8:27]
UK police chief: Shut down 'abhorrent' Web sites
Talkback This police chief is the antithesis of the free internet, and obviously spends too much time worrying about rotten.com when he should be tracking down child pornography rings.
[February 25, 2004, 16:23]
Kazaa exec declares child porn unstoppable
News Philip Morle, Sharman Networks' chief technology officer, told the Federal Court in Sydney yesterday, during the trial of the peer-to-peer software provider over alleged copyright-infringing behaviour, he did not believe Sharman could actually...
[December 10, 2004, 7:50]
Police investigate child porn computer game
News Direct links to Web sites containing thousands of images of child pornography were found on the game. Police in New Zealand are searching for the distributors of a child's computer game sold with links to child porn sites.
[January 2, 2001, 12:30]
Link between Net porn and child abuse acknowledged
News Government guidelines on child abuse have been updated to take account of pornography on the Internet it was announced last week. Unveiled by junior Health Minister John Hutton, the guidance "Working Together to Safeguard Children" acknowledges a...
[August 31, 1999, 16:53]
Google keeps up porn probe battle
Talkback In the US, dissidents for child pornography get ? i am having some difficulty understanding Google's going along w/ China while not going along w/ the US. Dissidents for basic freedoms, like press and religion, get run over by tanks in China.
[February 20, 2006, 16:25]
Spammers scaring users into replying
News Jonathan Tate, worldwide product marketing manager for Clearswift, warned on Monday there has been a move away from the traditional methods such as using pornography as an enticement, and a new emphasis on well designed and plausible emails that...
[August 15, 2005, 16:45]
Web site sting smashes child porn ring
News Italian detectives used a fake Web site offering child pornography to trap suspects. Police in Italy have shattered an international child porn ring using a fake Web site to snare more than 1,500 users.
[October 30, 2000, 10:18]
International child porn operation smashed
News The latest swoop sees another successful international operation in the fight against child pornography on the Internet and was co-ordinated by a set of Internet experts set up by the Munich police four years ago.
[March 22, 1999, 12:09]
Failures in a Hybrid Content Blocking System
White Papers A British ISP has deployed such a system to prevent access to child pornography. Three main methods of content blocking are used on the Internet: blocking routes to particular IP addresses, blocking specific URLs in a proxy cache or firewall, and...
[October 24, 2007, 1:00]
House of Lords discusses child safety online
News The purpose of the seminar is to engage with parliamentarians, MPs and Lords in making sure that they understand the process of regulating Internet content, and in particular child pornography," said David Kerr, chief executive of IWF.
[January 22, 2001, 14:34]
New ISP promises child-friendly surfing
News But the Internet Watch Foundation, the advisory body set up to monitor the growing problem of child pornography on the Internet, is sceptical about the feasibility of an ISP offering restricted access to the Internet.
[May 4, 2001, 14:14]
