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Chatrooms Will Increase Child Attacks, Say Experts
News Child psychologists have warned that Internet chatrooms will increase the number of attacks on children in the UK. Experts agree that increasing use of chatrooms in the UK is creating myriad opportunities for paedophiles to operate in relative...
[November 16, 2000, 13:15]
Yahoo! UK To Block Access To US Chatrooms
News The US version of the software, which anyone can access, will remain unchanged and users will still be able to get on to adult chatrooms based in the UK has changed its UK Instant Messenger client to block access to adult chatrooms based in the US.
[February 12, 2001, 14:59]
T-Online Rejects Chatrooms From Its IM Service
News German ISP T-Online has rejected chatrooms from its forthcoming instant messaging product, adding to the growing concern that the feature is dangerous. A ZDNet News investigation revealed that some of the 'romance' chatrooms freely available to...
[April 19, 2001, 13:58]
Yahoo! Cracks Down On Porn Chatrooms
News But John Carr, Internet consultant for NCH Action for Children argues it is unlikely that these offending chatrooms will become redundant, and points out that it will now be harder for children to stumble upon adult areas accidentally.
[May 3, 2001, 13:27]
2000 Roundup: The Dangers Of Chatrooms Exposed
News Debate over Internet chatrooms has raged for years, but in October Patrick Green became the first Net paedophile to be sentenced under UK law for the sexual assault of a girl he met online. Within days, criminal experts began calling for a revision...
[December 31, 2000, 6:08]
Police Target Chatrooms In Latest Paedophile Arrests
News Operation Magenta had traced people who were using Internet chatrooms to swap sexually explicit images of children, police said. Today's nationwide operation should send out a loud message to those people who use chatrooms to trade in indecent...
[April 24, 2002, 11:23]
Yahoo! Racist Chatrooms 'untouchable'
News US is hosting racist propaganda on its Messenger chatrooms, but British police admit the Internet portal is doing nothing wrong under British law. User-created chatrooms entitled "White Pride White Power KKK" and "National White Pride Association...
[May 23, 2001, 12:45]
Yahoo! Cracks Down On Porn Chatrooms
Talkback WELL THATS REALY RITE . BUT ITS NOT CONCERNED YOU CAN MAKE IT POSIBLE. WHY DONT YOU GO AND TRY TO STOP . YAHOO BOOTERS, SM NASTY SHIT ON YAHOO. BLOCK THEM SURE IT NOT HELP PPL TO CHAT NICE SURE THERE SHOULD BE SMREQUIREMENTS TO MAKE ID IN YAHOO NOT...
[February 4, 2006, 22:06]
Under-25s Ditch Chatrooms For SMS
News Mobile phone usage is growing faster than Internet usage in Europe's four largest countries among adults, according to research presented by GartnerG2 on Wednesday. The percentage of all adults who use a mobile phone grew between 5 and 10 percent...
[November 6, 2002, 16:49]
Government Considering Chatroom Controls
News The government is considering taking action to prevent Internet chatrooms being used by paedophiles to meet children, a home office minister announced Tuesday. Methods could include improved supervision of chatrooms, and hotlines which a child...
[January 24, 2001, 11:37]
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]
CIA Funds Chatroom Surveillance
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...
[November 25, 2004, 7:35]
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! Hopefully, this is not the end of the so called chatrooms, and they...
[September 28, 2003, 12:08]
Yahoo!'s Paedophile Move Does Not Protect Children
News The move by Yahoo.co.uk to block access to American chatrooms hosted by the company on its Instant Messenger (IM) client will not protect children in the UK from paedophiles, investigations by ZDNet UK News have revealed.
[February 13, 2001, 10:56]
Child Agencies Lambast Yahoo! Over Chatroom Apathy
News Williams explained that Chatdanger.com was designed to "raise awareness among children and parents about the potential dangers of unmoderated Internet chatrooms, and to seek to put pressure on those companies providing chat to do more to protect...
[November 9, 2000, 15:41]
Naughton: The American Dream Turned Sour, Part X
News One juror who voted to convict said she was swayed by Naughton's choice of chatrooms and the fact that he had rented a car. The conversations continue online, in chatrooms where real identity is blurry and pseudonyms unstable; between men and other...
[March 21, 2000, 15:16]
Microsoft Directs Chatters To IM
News In announcing it would shut free chatrooms, Microsoft chose to highlight problems with spammers and pornographers. Microsoft said MSN users should switch over to its free MSN Messenger instant messaging service as a replacement for the chatrooms...
[September 26, 2003, 9:00]
Exclusive: Yahoo! UK Recruits Paedophile 'inspector'
News UK has finally recruited an "inspector" charged with responsibility for dealing with paedophile content polluting its chatrooms, four months after the UK managing director confirmed she would personally oversee the appointment.
[April 6, 2001, 15:42]
Blair Considers New Paedophile Laws
News Paedophiles who approach youngsters through Internet chatrooms could be prosecuted if new legislation, being considered by Tony Blair, becomes law. s running of chatrooms has been seen by Blair and Charles Clarke.
[March 1, 2001, 7:19]
Microsoft: Doing It For The Kids?
Talkback Microsoft may think that closing their chatrooms will help protect children from possibly coming into contact with undesirable people, but what about the junk mail children all over the country who have a hotmail account are receiving every day?
[October 6, 2003, 12:56]
