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Home Office to criminalise chatroom meetings

The home secretary has accepted recommendations made by the Home Office Internet taskforce to criminalise the online "grooming" of children, making it a criminal... Read more

20 July, 2001 by Wendy McAuliffe

ICANN urged to scrutinise domain claims

An Internet taskforce is calling for increased accuracy of domain-name owner data and... Read more

6 December, 2002 by Ed Frauenheim

Internet safety programme goes to UK schools

...manufacturer Tiny. The KidSmart initiative is supported by the Home Office's Internet taskforce on Child Protection. It was unveiled at the BETT education show... Read more

10 January, 2002 by Wendy McAuliffe

The Year Ahead: Is the Internet becoming safer for children?

...Forum report Chat Wise, Street Wise, and unveiled plans for a new Internet taskforce. Contrary to expectations, the government-backed report failed to grasp the... Read more

1 January, 2002 by Wendy McAuliffe

Home Office screens Internet paedophile warning ads

...sense to them in the real world to the virtual world." The Internet Taskforce on Child Protection, chaired by Hughes, recently commissioned an investigation into... Read more

19 December, 2001 by Wendy McAuliffe

Home Office pledges £1.5m to help protect children online

...time in chatrooms. In March 2001, the Home Office set up an Internet Taskforce to investigate concerns that paedophiles were using Internet chatrooms to meet... Read more

3 December, 2001 by Wendy McAuliffe

Virtual hotel cracks down on cybersex

...conversations is one that the Home Office is taking very seriously. An Internet taskforce has been set up to investigate the issue, and new legislation... Read more

17 October, 2001 by Wendy McAuliffe

Internet 'grooming' legislation faces delays

...on Monday, Beverley Hughes, the Home Office minister and chair of the Internet Taskforce on Child Protection, implied that new "grooming" laws could be delayed... Read more

2 October, 2001 by Wendy McAuliffe

Government limits consultation on child protection law

...that a proper and open consultation was not deemed necessary by the Internet Taskforce on Child Protection and by the Home Office," said Yaman Akdeniz... Read more

7 September, 2001 by Wendy McAuliffe

IWF lambasted for plan to ban newsgroups

...the power to confront ISPs." A meeting of the Home Office's Internet taskforce this afternoon is expected to review the IWFs power to enforce... Read more

19 July, 2001 by Wendy McAuliffe

IWF says ISPs must drop illegal newsgroups

...the government and the police. A meeting of the Home Office's Internet taskforce today will discuss the issue further, and is expected to give... Read more

19 July, 2001 by Wendy McAuliffe

Blind man faces prosecution for listening to child porn

...prove that the suspect knew what he was doing," he concluded. An Internet taskforce is currently investigating the issue of child protection online. It is... Read more

25 June, 2001 by Wendy McAuliffe

Straw makes Internet grooming an election issue

Opposition parties slam home secretary's U-turn on criminalising the practice, saying Labour is stealing their ideas Read more

21 May, 2001 by Wendy McAuliffe

British children are surfing the Web for porn

...the threat of suspected paedophiles approaching them online, by setting up an Internet taskforce to specifically look into the issue of protecting children online. The... Read more

10 May, 2001 by Wendy McAuliffe

Home Office may criminalise chatroom 'grooming'

...difficult to prove." The Home Office proposal will be examined by an Internet taskforce thinktank to be set up next week, whose proposals will be... Read more

9 May, 2001 by Wendy McAuliffe

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