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Government limits consultation on child protection law
News We believe in openness and transparency of any government policy-making process and we are puzzled by the fact that a proper and open consultation was not deemed necessary by the Internet Taskforce on Child Protection and by the Home Office," said...
[September 7, 2001, 8:30]
The Dutch Child Protection Board Streamlines Processes With Scalable Case Management Solution
White Papers The Dutch Child Protection Board, part of the Ministry of Justice, defends and protects the rights of children who are at risk relative to their development and upbringing. The Dutch Child Protection Board wanted to connect the systems and...
[May 21, 2008, 1:01]
AOL casts doubts on BT's child-porn protection
Talkback one of the other questions is is it possible to spoof ip addresses and cause the blocking of innocent sites. I think that a worm could spread an auto dialler to dial onto compromised computers, to dial some of these sites, in order to get onto web...
[July 21, 2004, 12:38]
Is there a future for US child protection bill?
News Friday's appeal by the U.S. Department of Justice against that ruling puts COPA in the hands of three judges at the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. Government lawyers filed the appeal with just hours to spare; if they had not appealed by the April...
[April 6, 1999, 9:39]
AOL casts doubts on BT's child-porn protection
News While BT won headlines on Tuesday with the news that it had blocked almost a quarter of a million attempts to access child pornography over the Internet in the last couple of weeks, other Internet service providers have expressed reservations...
[July 20, 2004, 17:45]
Minister challenges government on child protection
News Learning and technology minister Michael Wills admitted on Wednesday that Internet dangers have now become part of the real world, and challenged the government to take the issue of protecting online children seriously.
[March 21, 2001, 13:37]
Security flaws halt work on child-protection database
News Computer specialists are working to fix security holes that have halted work on a database to protect children. The £224m ContactPoint database contains the name, address, gender, date of birth and a unique identifying number for all people aged...
[March 25, 2009, 8:17]
Chatroom Danger: Britain breaks UN pledge to protect kids online
News 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 experts. The article states that whilst children should have access to a wide variety of...
[March 15, 2001, 12:40]
Brown alerted to HMRC data risk in 2004
News Gordon Brown was told three years ago that weak data-protection procedures governing the child-benefit database made fraud or mistakes more likely and potentially undetectable, according to The Register.
[December 10, 2007, 14:36]
Freedom of speech v the will to protect children
News In response to what has become a public debacle which sought to protect children from "harmful content" the US government drew up the Child Online Protection Act (COPA) in October 1998. As the Internet gives a new outlet to the distributors of...
[March 22, 1999, 10:55]
NSPCC calls for better online crime reporting
News The charity said that a specialist team of police and child protection officers was needed to act as a 'national reference point' to report online child abuse. Creating a national facility, capable of understanding these dangers and concerns will...
[December 2, 2004, 12:15]
Internet 'grooming' legislation faces delays
News Speaking at the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) fringe meeting at the Labour Party conference in Brighton on Monday, Beverley Hughes, the Home Office minister and chair of the Internet Taskforce on Child Protection, implied that new "grooming...
[October 2, 2001, 13:28]
Australian High-Tech Crime Centre in child-porn sweep
News However there is no doubt that this operation has been a very successful collaborative effort between Australian and overseas police jurisdictions as well as the internet industry, financial institutions, child protection agencies and the...
[October 1, 2004, 13:00]
Police lack resources for paedophile hunts
News Seven British men were jailed Tuesday for their participation in the Wonderland Club, but child protection units around the country admit the task of policing the Internet far exceeds the resources available to them.
[February 15, 2001, 9:02]
Blind man faces prosecution for listening to child porn
News The Protection of Children Act 1978 initially made it illegal to produce photos of children being sexually abused, whilst the Criminal Justice and Public Order Amendments in 1994 expanded this definition to deal with pseudo images of child...
[June 25, 2001, 18:24]
High-tech cops hit back against ISP claims
Talkback Do we continue to expend vast amounts of valuable child protection time and money, chasing men who have an unpleasant but harmless fantasy (creating quite a few fatherless children in the process) or do we make rather better use of valluable...
[April 5, 2004, 20:07]
Adult content dispute causes AltaVista to close features
News Its Children's Advertising Review Unit (CARU) can solicit investigations by the Federal Trade Commission if a company continues to violate its child protection principles or the federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.
[February 15, 2001, 8:50]
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]
SMobile Parental Controls for Symbian
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[December 16, 2008, 6:00]
SMobile Security Shield Parental Edition for BlackBerry
Downloads Handango Androidbody {margin: 0;background-color: #D0D8CD;scrollbar-base-color: #C9D1C6;color: #000000;}A:link {text-decoration: underline;color: #696A97;}A:hover {text-decoration: underline;color: #CC3300;}A:active {text-decoration: none;color...
[December 16, 2008, 6:00]
