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Police chief slams Yahoo! chatroom silence
News chatroom. to act against paedophiles using its chatroom services. to change its chatroom protocols and said it was disappointed by the company's inaction on the issue. Chatroom Apathy News Roundup. Chief superintendent Martin Jauch of the...
[November 16, 2000, 16:07]
ISP launches monitored chatroom for kids
News British ISP Supanet has entered the minefield of online child protection, launching a fully monitored chatroom service designed to ensure that children are shielded from unsavoury characters on the Web.
[June 25, 2001, 11:05]
Chatroom Danger: Britain breaks UN pledge to protect kids online
News Find out the details of ZDNet News' investigation in the Chatroom Danger Special Report Britain is in breach of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the child by failing to provide proper protection to children online, according to legal...
[March 15, 2001, 12:40]
Coronation Street prepares chatroom danger plot
News Home Office officials have briefed Coronation Street scriptwriters on the dangers of Internet chatroom, in preparation for a controversial plot scheduled for broadcast next month. In June, viewers will see teenage mum, Sarah Louise Platt, begin a...
[May 14, 2001, 10:55]
Chatroom 'victim' to return home
News Lindsay Shamrock met 35-year-old German Konstantin Baehring in an Internet chatroom, and according to her mother was manipulated by email and Web-based chat into travelling to meet him in Greece last August.
[February 5, 2001, 12:23]
News Burst: Girls most at risk from chatroom predators
News A quarter of young female chatroom participants have had an unpleasant experience online according to a global study on Internet usage amongst children. The report found girls to be more than twice as likely as boys to have had a disturbing...
[December 4, 2000, 10:43]
Girls most at risk from chatroom predators
News A quarter of young female chatroom participants have had an unpleasant experience online according to a global study on Internet usage amongst children. The report found girls to be more than twice as likely as boys to have had a disturbing...
[December 4, 2000, 14:06]
Sex-game death streamed in Net chatroom
News British courts have been flooded with cases dealing with Internet chatroom dangers in recent weeks. On Thursday, a 45-year-old man admitted to raping a 14-year-old girl that he met in an Internet chatroom.
[March 2, 2001, 10:32]
Blue Chatroom
Downloads To simplify usage, on Bluechat there is one big chatroom that anyone can join. Have you ever needed to chat with strangers around you when you are shopping at a mall? It is now possible by Bluechat. Bluechat allows you to chat with people around...
[January 11, 2006, 0:16]
CIA funds chatroom surveillance
News One of those projects is research at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y.devoted to automated monitoring and profiling of the behaviour of chatroom users. The NSF grant for chatroom surveillance was reported earlier this year, but...
[November 25, 2004, 7:35]
Chatroom Danger: Flurry of Net paedophile cases hit Britain
News Find out the details of ZDNet News' investigation in the Chatroom Danger Special Report A flurry of British Net paedophile cases this year has exposed the Internet as an underground network of paedophile rings, where vulnerable children are lured...
[March 15, 2001, 16:46]
Child agencies lambast Yahoo! over chatroom apathy
News Messenger's chatroom list) to be made available to children. for the way it runs its Instant Messaging service and chatrooms. Following an investigation by ZDNet UK News, Nigel Williams, director of Childnet International, expressed concern at the...
[November 9, 2000, 15:41]
Investigation confirms chatroom dangers
News It takes less than ten minutes for a child in an Internet chatroom to be targeted by a paedophile, according to an independent investigation by a reporter in Wales. The dangers of children using Internet chatrooms unsupervised was highlighted in...
[December 18, 2000, 10:41]
Microsoft chatroom closure is 'irresponsible'
Talkback I have used MSN's chatrooms for about 5 years. I quickly found user created chatrooms as a place to have some wonderful conversations with people from all over the world. If MSN worried about "children" seeing things they shouldn't see, then why...
[September 26, 2003, 1:43]
Microsoft chatroom closure is 'irresponsible'
Talkback Three cheers for msn taking the action to close their chatrooms.Generally speaking, they are a load of claptrap.Given the amount of chatrooms,it all evolves around one subject sex! Unfortunately, a good internet communication was given a bad name...
[September 28, 2003, 12:08]
Microsoft chatroom closure is 'irresponsible'
Talkback I agree with Microsoft for once. Chatrooms are a nothing more than a waste of internet bandwidth. I've been using the internet for years and have never needed to use them.
[September 24, 2003, 18:28]
Microsoft chatroom closure is 'irresponsible'
Talkback IM A REGULAR USER OF CHATROOMS AND AM FULLY AWARE OF THE RISKS BUT I SERIOUSLY SEE LITTLE POINT IN THERE CLOSURE AS THIS WILL ENCOURAGE PEADOFILES TO LOOK IN LESSER CONTROLLED CHAT ROOMS, I BELIEVE THE ANSWER IS IN BETTER MONITORING AND SECURITY...
[September 24, 2003, 18:31]
Microsoft chatroom closure is 'irresponsible'
Talkback If you've never used a chat room how can you say that they are worthless? I have used a room on msn for more then a year,it is a music room,where the chat is about music ,bands etc,not sex and pick ups!
[September 25, 2003, 14:22]
Microsoft chatroom closure is 'irresponsible'
Talkback Surely safety online starts at home.With parents making sure they are fully aware of what their children are doing while online and making sure that they know how to stay safe,not giving out personal details etc.Don't blame chatrooms for a lack of...
[September 25, 2003, 14:28]
ISP launches monitored chatroom for kids
Talkback i will like my child to have a friend on line
[July 2, 2004, 15:22]
