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Does The Net Need A 'red-light District'?
News The idea, presented Friday to a commission exploring the Child Online Protection Act (COPA), would create a "red-light district" for porn sites and a so-called "green" area for sites appropriate for children.
[August 7, 2000, 10:24]
Government To Tackle Internet Child Porn
News While a direct link is difficult to establish, many believe the proliferation of chld porn on the Net is increasing incidents of abuse. David Kerr, chief executive of the Internet Watch Foundation believes there is a link between Net porn and abuse.
[September 1, 1999, 14:51]
Fourteen Arrested After Internet Child Porn Investigation
News Nearly one million images of child porn and 1,800 video clips were seized, and earlier this year seven British men were jailed for their participation. Scotland Yard has said that 14 people were arrested early on Tuesday morning across the UK and...
[October 30, 2001, 15:22]
Blind Man Faces Prosecution For Listening To Child Porn
News Iyavar Chetty, senior executive and legal counsel for the board has said that the Film and Publications Act carries a sentence of five years for the use of child porn. The Protection of Children Act 1978 initially made it illegal to produce photos...
[June 25, 2001, 18:24]
Cybersex Sting: Naughton Pleads Guilty
News On 16 December, a trial jury found Naughton guilty of possessing child porn, but deadlocked on the more serious charge of travelling across state lines with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity with a minor.
[March 20, 2000, 9:36]
Web Of Porn: The Business Of Porn - Part 1
News We look for mainly child porn and hard core adult porn such as bestiality and torture. And as he stresses, with the more serious issue of child porn, Internet Watch is not really bothered about two consenting adults having cyber sex.
[March 9, 1999, 15:43]
Broadband Will Impede Cybercops
News Speaking at a European Commission forum on cybercrime last Wednesday, detective chief superintendent Keith Ackerman, chairman of the UK Internet Crime Forum said that the police were unable to track down 500 members of a child porn ring because of...
[March 13, 2001, 15:35]
Huge Raid On Alleged Net Paedophiles
News On 2 September 1998 an international police operation dubbed Operation Cathedral involving 12 countries successfully seized nearly a million child porn images as well as 1,800 "computerised videos" depicting children suffering sexual abuse.
[March 27, 2001, 10:50]
Net-porn Filtering Hit With Lawsuits
News The measure requires the blocking of images only, and many filtering companies say it's nearly impossible for their software to distinguish between pictures of nude people on a porn site and those in a painting.
[March 21, 2001, 8:29]
Porn Site Veterans Vow To Clean House
News The king and queen of Internet porn -- Dannie Ashe and Andrew Edmond -- have decided that their realms are pretty seamy. They say email sleaze-entrepreneurs and thousands of money-hungry porn sites are making everything from bestiality to kiddy...
[August 4, 2000, 16:20]
Naughton Jury: Cops 'screwed Up'
News Defence attorneys said they would appeal the child-porn count based on the assertion that the 1996 Child Porn Protection Act, or CPPA, is unconstitutional. The panel reached a decision immediately on the child-porn count, but during discussion on...
[December 17, 1999, 8:42]
Lawyers Sceptical Of "grooming" Laws
News Find out with the Web of Porn Special A successful prosecution would however have to show that there was an "act of gross indecency" which the child was being incited to participate in, making it impossible to charge someone with general sexual...
[March 6, 2001, 11:44]
Internet Child Pornographer Gets 35 Years
News Find out with the Web of Porn Special The Child Protection Act now states that the sentence for possession of illegal Internet content rose from six months to five years, whilst the penalty for distributing pornographic or paedophile content...
[January 19, 2001, 10:51]
Police Disorganisation Blamed For Rise In Net Crime
News Find out with the Web of Porn Special 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...
[January 18, 2001, 15:11]
FBI Nets Scottish Web Paedophile
News Find out with the Web of Porn Special The agency also gathered emails from the defendant to the boy that contained child pornography and sexual images of himself. At the hearing, Rodriguez rated Net paedophiles as a greater threat than traders in...
[March 12, 2001, 11:19]
AT&T Exec: Net Is Full Of Hate
News But when Leo Hindery, president and CEO of AT&T Broadband and Internet Services, instead devoted his keynote at the Progress & Freedom Foundation's Cyberspace and the American Dream conference to the threat posed by porn and hate Web sites, the...
[August 25, 1999, 9:30]
Australian High-Tech Crime Centre In Child-porn Sweep
News Some people involved in this type of activity don't see that viewing and disseminating photographs is a crime but every child pornographic image portrays a real victim and records an act of abuse against a child," Phelan added.
[October 1, 2004, 13:00]
Child Porn Cases On The Rise In Ireland
News If the material is found, it will then be assessed to see if it is illegal under the Irish Child Pornography and Trafficking Act 1998. See the Net Crime News Section for the latest on fraud, crime, child protection and related issues.
[February 6, 2002, 15:27]
Google Accused Of Profiting From Child Porn
News Defendant is willing to accede to the demands of the Chinese autocrats to block the search term 'democracy', but when it comes to the protection and well-being of our nation's innocent children, Defendant refuses to spend a dime's worth of...
[May 8, 2006, 10:45]
Google Wins Porn Probe Fight
News The Bush administration's request is part of its campaign to defend the 1998 Child Online Protection Act, which faces a court challenge from the American Civil Liberties Union. Ware said in his Friday order that the government demonstrated a...
[March 20, 2006, 7:55]
