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Tory leader compares music piracy with child abuse
Blog They have already established the Internet Watch Foundation to monitor child abuse and incitement to racial hatred on the internet.They should be doing the same when it comes to digital piracy. Tory leader David Cameron has delivered a speech to...
[July 6, 2007, 18:30]
Virtual taskforce to fight online child abuse
News It also offers a confidential channel for users to report online child abuse. Child protection on the Internet is an issue where the UK has consistently led the world in our commitment to tackling the problem, in our readiness to work in...
[January 27, 2005, 12:35]
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]
Wonderland used encryption to swap child abuse pictures
Talkback We need to have hope to stop child abuse. Hopefully we can stop child abuse from spreading around the united states of america. The article pretty much explains how abuse is done. Without hope, there is nothing we can do about abuses.
[May 19, 2004, 16:03]
Virtual taskforce to fight online child abuse
Talkback However, it's notably light on systems to report child porn and child exploitation. This site is a major wheeze. There's a lot of space devoted to PR and a fine sounding 'mission' statement. This looks like another bogus sham to get voters to think...
[January 29, 2005, 12:26]
Wonderland used encryption to swap child abuse pictures
News The Internet has become an encrypted network for the global distribution of child pornography, a packed courtroom heard Monday. Seven UK men appeared before Kingston Crown Court for their first day of sentencing, charged with the distribution of...
[February 13, 2001, 9:32]
Police: Not enough evidence for paedophile crackdown
News Police and cyberliberty advocates expressed a continuing need for tangible evidence of Internet child abuse on Tuesday before a more proactive approach will be taken in Britain to crack down on Net paedophiles.
[March 22, 2001, 11:25]
Digital rights group to fight data retention
Talkback How much more, hard fought for, rights will be thrown overboard in the name of child porn, terrorism, crime fighting, illegal immigrants, wellfare abuse, child abuse, electronic crimes and what not before government agencies will run out of excuses?
[September 13, 2005, 23:25]
Seven Britons guilty over child porn ring
Talkback Whle child abuse, and particularly child sexual abuse is totally dispicable, and those guilty deserve to feel the full weight of the law, I feel a distinction needs to be made between actual "hands on" abuse and viewing child pornography.
[April 22, 2004, 2:02]
IWF chief: Why Wikipedia block went wrong
News The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), an organisation set up by internet service providers to monitor child sexual abuse websites, caused a furore in December when it attempted to block a page on online collaborative encyclopaedia Wikipedia.
[February 20, 2009, 16:00]
Porn access debate hots up in Australia
Talkback When are governments going to concentrate on issues that have the potential to constitute real abuse, like child porn and paedophilic activity and stop confusing and diluting the real fight against child abuse.
[May 3, 2004, 5:31]
News Roundup: Online paedophiles hit the news
News Each was a member of the notorious "Wonderland Club" -- the international ring that used the Internet to distribute images, sounds and video of child abuse. One of the convicted men has claimed that the Net was vital in creating a community for...
[February 12, 2001, 17:02]
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]
News Burst: 'Epidemic' of Internet child pornography sweeps UK
News According to a spokesman for the Association of Child Abuse Lawyers, many courts fail to recognise child pornography and the dissemination of it, as abuse. An investigation by The Observer has revealed that lenient sentencing and a failure to...
[January 8, 2001, 8:15]
NSPCC to double number of paedophile investigation units
News The charity is the only organisation in the country with the right to investigate cases of organised child abuse. Although not aware of any specific investigation into Internet child abuse, he said it was "something we are looking into" and...
[March 22, 1999, 14:16]
Government to tackle Internet child porn
News The paper also addresses the link between child abuse and child pornography on the Internet. The guidance -- Working Together to Safeguard Children -- was published by the Department of Health to help social workers, the police, teachers and others...
[September 1, 1999, 14:51]
UK police struggling to fight cybercrime
News The report -- published by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary, a sub-section of the Home Office -- found that police are spending so much time investigating Internet paedophilia they are failing to pursue other child abuse enquires, due to...
[March 4, 2005, 16:15]
Web blamed for surge in child porn
Talkback How is it then that increased child abuse (about which any sensible person is concerned) is "evidence" that paedophilic pornography on the Web and Internet is its cause ? Finding the cause of child abuse is not furthered by blaming anything or...
[January 13, 2004, 13:59]
Police lack resources for paedophile hunts
News On 2 September 1998 an international police operation involving 12 countries successfully seized nearly a million child porn images as well as 1,800 "computerised videos" depicting children suffering sexual abuse.
[February 15, 2001, 9:02]
Encryption foils Internet child porn prosecutions
Talkback Reprehensible as viewing child pornography is, providing there is no hand-on abuse of minors, resources expended to arrest, convict, imprison and presumably rehabilitate these people seems out-of-proportion to their supposed threat to society.
[February 22, 2005, 3:26]
