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Government Turnaround On Paedophile Entrapment
News The Home Office is considering allowing police to use entrapment in the UK in order to crack down on Internet paedophiles, a government minister claimed Friday. Responding to Carol Vorderman's unprecedented attack on the government Tuesday for its...
[January 30, 2001, 6:08]
Home Office Commits Gaffe Over Entrapment
News A controversial case which used entrapment procedures to catch a paedophile operating on the Internet has been used by the Home Office to defend the fact that under UK law entrapment procedures are outlawed.
[February 6, 2001, 14:05]
Home Office To Block Lib Dem MP's Entrapment Proposal
News The Home Office has said it will block entrapment proposals tabled for inclusion in the Criminal Justice and Police Bill that would grant police new powers to crack down on Internet paedophiles. Laws allowing police officers to "entrap" Net...
[February 20, 2001, 6:10]
Lords Vote Against Entrapment Proposal
News Efforts by Tory peer Baroness Blatch to update the Indecency with Children Act 1960 so British police can use entrapment to catch Internet paedophiles was voted out by the House of Lords Wednesday. The Home Office remains determined that...
[November 9, 2000, 7:45]
News Burst: Lords Votes Against Entrapment Proposal
News Efforts by Tory peer Baroness Blatch to update the Indecency with Children Act 1960 so entrapment can be used by police to catch Internet paedophiles was voted out by the House of Lords Wednesday. Blatch challenged the Home Office to introduce a...
[November 8, 2000, 17:06]
Government Denies Entrapment Reports
News The government has denied reports of its intention to introduce entrapment laws into the UK following the prosecution of Patrick Green last week. Entrapment laws would, according to legal experts, allow the police to lure online paedophiles before...
[October 30, 2000, 16:41]
UK Expert Calls For Entrapment Of Paedophiles
News Franklin Sinclair, senior partner at Tuckers Solicitors, says Britain should learn from America and introduce legislation allowing the entrapment of paedophiles operating online. Criminal experts are in agreement that US entrapment law has a high...
[October 25, 2000, 11:07]
There Will Be No Flexibility By Design - Its Tax Raising By Entrapment
Talkback They only want money. Fairness, justice etc were killed by Thatcher and the establishment couldn't care less about any of those criteria or morality, only if its legal extortion. They can do everything from cynical trap and fine to shoot you dead...
[September 13, 2007, 15:33]
Chat Rooms Targetted By Internet Watch Foundation
News Although the police deny using entrapment methods on the Internet, Kerr thinks officers patrolling the Net could be beneficial in the battle against paedophiles, but does not support the US entrapment tactics, "it may need to be a bit more...
[March 2, 1999, 11:17]
A Year Ago: Chat Rooms Targetted By Internet Watch Foundation
News Although the police deny using entrapment methods on the Internet, Kerr thinks officers patrolling the Net could be beneficial in the battle against paedophiles, but does not support the US entrapment tactics, "it may need to be a bit more...
[March 2, 2000, 5:37]
Net Paedophile Investigation Breaks New Ground
News The prohibition of entrapment within UK law has often made it difficult for police officers to catch paedophiles operating in Internet chatrooms. Article 6 of the EU Convention on Human Rights also outlaws evidence gathered by entrapment.
[January 22, 2002, 10:33]
News Roundup: Are Your Kids Safe Online?
News Lords vote against entrapment proposal UK expert calls for entrapment of paedophiles for the way in which it runs its instant messaging service and chatrooms. Is it safe to have your children using chatrooms or instant messaging, and are the big...
[November 13, 2000, 14:01]
FBI Interview With ZDNet News: Innocent Images
News Going online undercover would be considered entrapment and would not be legal. Gulotta: I don't consider what we do to be entrapment. The FBI tackles child pornography on the Net head-on with hundreds of agents going online to find and capture...
[March 22, 1999, 10:41]
Government Plans Paedophile 'stings', Say Reports
News According to reports, government ministers are calling for the introduction of entrapment procedures that will allow police officers to catch criminals operating in online chatrooms. The power to mount "sting" operations in the UK would be targeted...
[October 30, 2000, 11:15]
News Burst: Cybersquad To Combat Computer Crime
News Sources say the unit will be responsible for catching paedophiles using entrapment procedures. Entrapment techniques proposed to catch paedophiles using chatrooms were thrown out of the House of Lords last week.
[November 13, 2000, 9:59]
Innocent Surfers Can Appear Guilty Of Song-swapping
News The anonymous paper -- Entrapment: Incriminating Peer to Peer Network Users -- detailed several methods that could be used to trick unknowing users into downloading copyrighted files and host them, reported New Scientist.
[October 3, 2003, 9:25]
IT Staff Can't Be Trusted, Claim Self-appointed Software Police
Talkback Extortion and entrapment in all but name. When I worked in PC repair we would regulatory get phone calls from the local BSA wanting to know if we had renewed out licenses. We would patently explain that we had no such software.
[May 4, 2005, 15:35]
40 Year Old Law Puts Children At Risk
News On Monday the Home Office told ZDNet that "The government has no current plans to amend the laws relating to entrapment. The Home Office has been challenged to explain how a forty year old law, designed to protect children from indecent assault...
[November 1, 2000, 16:20]
Government Claims Paedophile Laws Do Not Need Updating
News Experts argue introducing entrapment laws could actually prevent paedophiles physically abusing children by catching them before a criminal offence is committed. The Home Office claims the 40-year-old Indecency with Children Act -- made law in 1960...
[November 1, 2000, 6:06]
2000 Roundup: The Dangers Of Chatrooms Exposed
News By the end of October reports suggested that government ministers were calling for the introduction of entrapment procedures, granting police the power to mount "sting" operations in the UK. Debate over Internet chatrooms has raged for years, but...
[December 31, 2000, 6:08]
