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MP: ISPs must come clean on paedophilia
News Parliament will debate on Wednesday whether ISPs should be forced to declare whether they block customers from accessing known child pornography sites. I want to encourage ISPs to use the technology available to restrict access to child pornography...
[October 26, 2005, 12:25]
British women give online porn the thumbs up
News More than a quarter of the entire UK home Internet population visited pornography Web sites in June, with a quarter of the surfers being women. The Internet provides a more anonymous way of accessing pornography -- it services people's curiosity...
[August 13, 2001, 8:30]
Commercial child porn ring bust leads to 100 arrests
News The arrest of 100 people subscribing to the largest commercial child pornography ring ever discovered in the United States has called into question the assumption that Internet paedophilia is a non-profit-making activity.
[August 9, 2001, 13:00]
Encryption foils Internet child porn prosecutions
News The international operation into the world's largest child pornography ring caught only a fraction of its members, and has failed to retrieve the encryption keys for many of the images that the club circulated on the Internet.
[August 3, 2001, 14:10]
Manchester police boss sacked for downloading porn
News One of Britain's largest police forces has sacked a manager for downloading pornography on his computer and sexually harassing female colleagues. Company policy typically bans downloading pornography, but sackings for Internet abuse have gained...
[March 8, 2001, 14:02]
A Year Ago: Chat rooms targetted by Internet Watch Foundation
News A government review of the industry backed Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) has called for greater powers for the organisation to fight child pornography on the Internet Most of the cases involved child pornography.
[March 2, 2000, 5:37]
Australian High-Tech Crime Centre in child-porn sweep
News Hundreds of people across Australia will be prosecuted for child sex offences following the nation's largest ever crackdown on online child pornography. Over the past six days, police have uncovered what appear to be photographic studios for...
[October 1, 2004, 13:00]
IWF lambasted for plan to ban newsgroups
News Cyber-liberty advocates have lambasted the UK Internet regulator's decision to close down newsgroups that are known to regularly contain child pornography, dismissing the decision as a desperate attempt to justify the organisation's existence.
[July 19, 2001, 17:22]
Chatroom Danger: The role of the Internet Watch Foundation
News Online paedophilia is back in the news following the terrible revelations about the Wonderland Club -- the world's biggest Net-based child pornography ring -- and a string of physical assaults on children as a result of online conversations.
[March 15, 2001, 12:43]
Police disorganisation blamed for rise in Net crime
News A Metropolitan police chief has blamed lack of organisation in the police force for Britain's failure to crack down on Internet child pornography. Thirteen suspected paedophiles were arrested Wednesday, as part of Britain's biggest ever police...
[January 18, 2001, 15:11]
AOL casts doubts on BT's child-porn protection
News While BT won headlines on Tuesday with the news that it had blocked almost a quarter of a million attempts to access child pornography over the Internet in the last couple of weeks, other Internet service providers have expressed reservations...
[July 20, 2004, 17:45]
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]
Internet a 'moral-free zone', warns media chief
News The president of media giant News Corp.warns that the Internet has become a "moral-free zone," with the medium's future threatened by pornography, spam and rampant piracy. The vast potential of broadband has so far benefited nobody as clearly as it...
[August 21, 2002, 15:48]
Massive paedophile operation leads to arrests
News Thirteen suspected paedophiles were arrested and 27 computers seized in police dawn raids Wednesday in the UK's largest ever police operation against child pornography on the Internet. Police learned he was in contact with a London man who was...
[January 17, 2001, 13:28]
P2P firms claim filtering 'impossible'
News Responding to sharp criticism from legislators, a group of file-swapping companies told Congress that they have no ability to block copyrighted files or child pornography from their networks. Most pointedly, the letter asked that the companies work...
[January 29, 2004, 8:00]
US Report: Senate passes Net tax ban
News The Internet Tax Freedom Act cleared the upper chamber after nearly a week of debate in which members tacked on numerous amendments dealing with online pornography, electronic verification measures and children's privacy, adding considerable...
[October 9, 1998, 10:42]
Hoax porn site traps Scottish bank manager
News A Scottish bank manager has been placed on the Sex Offenders Register after a court convicted him of downloading more than 100 images of child pornography from a hoax Web site set up by US police. I came across pornography and stuff that included...
[September 20, 2000, 10:33]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Alarming news from Italy, where the Senate has been hit by -- oh, there's no polite way to say this -- hardcore homosexual pornography. The worm allowed hackers to display hardcore homosexual pornography on monitors around the organisation.
[November 26, 2004, 17:00]
UNESCO calls for 'Cyber Mums' against paedophiles
News UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation) is calling for a worldwide network of `cyber mums' as a result of the conference -- Sexual abuse, Child Pornography and Paedophilia on the Internet -- held in Paris in January.
[March 22, 1999, 10:53]
International child porn operation smashed
News Code-named Operation Bavaria, the Internet pornography ring was smashed when German police found thousands of pornographic images of children as young as three in an Internet chat room. The latest swoop sees another successful international...
[March 22, 1999, 12:09]
