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Home Office to criminalise chatroom meetings
News The home secretary has accepted recommendations made by the Home Office Internet taskforce to criminalise the online "grooming" of children, making it a criminal offence for an Internet paedophile to meet a child offline with the intention of...
[July 20, 2001, 17:18]
Internet safety programme goes to UK schools
News The KidSmart initiative is supported by the Home Office's Internet taskforce on Child Protection. Home Office minister Beverly Hughes, chair of the Internet taskforce, who recently helped to launch the government's "ThinkUKnow" public awareness...
[January 10, 2002, 17:52]
Australian code aims to curb spam
News A spam taskforce operating under the auspices of the Australian Internet Industry Association (IIA) has released a draft industry code of practice designed to block the spam epidemic. The IIA taskforce, chaired by Western Australian Internet...
[July 26, 2004, 10:55]
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]
Government widens net of responsibility for kids
News Plans for a new taskforce were unveiled at the lunchtime summit. The next taskforce meeting has been scheduled for July. The Home Office admitted at a cybercrime summit on Wednesday that it is no longer appropriate for Internet Service Providers...
[March 29, 2001, 16:18]
Home Office pledges £1.5m to help protect children online
News In March 2001, the Home Office set up an Internet Taskforce to investigate concerns that paedophiles were using Internet chatrooms to meet children. The media campaign follows a recommendation by the taskforce to raise public awareness about the...
[December 3, 2001, 11:38]
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]
British children are surfing the Web for porn
News The Home Office has shown its concern over children having access to inappropriate material on the Web, as well as the threat of suspected paedophiles approaching them online, by setting up an Internet taskforce to specifically look into the issue...
[May 10, 2001, 11:31]
Home Office screens Internet paedophile warning ads
News The Internet Taskforce on Child Protection, chaired by Hughes, recently commissioned an investigation into children's attitudes towards Internet safety. The taskforce has also received policy approval for an anti-grooming order, which will make it...
[December 19, 2001, 16:50]
PC makers consider child-friendly computers
News A new taskforce was announced to included representatives from the Internet industry, child welfare organisations, the police and government, as well as acknowledging the need for PC makers to become involved.
[April 2, 2001, 15:33]
Home Office may criminalise chatroom 'grooming'
News The Home Office proposal will be examined by an Internet taskforce thinktank to be set up next week, whose proposals will be presented to the entire taskforce in June. The Home Office is to propose a controversial "anti-grooming" order today...
[May 9, 2001, 14:25]
Home Office Web site adopts adult rating
News The Home Office has endorsed the ICRA system in the Internet Crime Forum report Chat Wise, Street Wise, and the new taskforce led by Home Office minister Lord Bassam has included it in its recommendations for improving child safety online.
[May 4, 2001, 10:06]
Government pledges remote working for all pupils
News Knight said that the government aims to remedy the situation by setting up a home-access taskforce to bring together organisations with the know-how to make it happen. Knight added that it was important that organisations "that know what they are...
[January 10, 2007, 16:54]
Birmingham wants affordable broadband for all
News The council linked the appeal to the government's formation of a home-access taskforce to get more school pupils online. It said it is the only local authority to have had officers working to prepare for the launch of the taskforce.
[January 24, 2008, 12:46]
The Internet celebrates its birthday - again
News Bob Braden, who posted the claim on a mailing list of the Internet Engineering TaskForce this week, was a member of the research group that worked on the TCP protocol. The Internet celebrated its "most logical" 20th birthday on New Year's day...
[January 2, 2003, 12:17]
The Year Ahead: Is the Internet becoming safer for children?
News In March it published the findings of its Internet Crime Forum report Chat Wise, Street Wise, and unveiled plans for a new Internet taskforce. The "grooming" proposal was refined by the Scrutiny of the Criminal Law subgroup of the Home Office...
[January 1, 2002, 6:31]
Straw makes Internet grooming an election issue
News The Home Office proposal will be considered at the next Internet taskforce meeting in June. Internet "grooming" has become an election issue for the Labour party, with opposition parties accusing the government of deceitfully taking ownership of a...
[May 21, 2001, 13:37]
IETF rejects wiretapping plan
News The Internet Engineering Taskforce (IETF) has voted overwhelmingly to reject plans for a global standard for snooping on Net telephone calls Thursday. The IETF was considering designing a protocol to allow wiretapping of telephone calls made over...
[November 11, 1999, 12:13]
Exclusive: Yahoo! UK recruits paedophile 'inspector'
News The Home Office unwittingly revealed Mullins' appointment in a press release announcing the creation of an Internet taskforce last Wednesday, set up to oversee the implementation of recommendations made in the Internet Crime Forum report Chat Wise...
[April 6, 2001, 15:42]
Another Net paedophile sentenced in Britain
News The Home Office unveiled plans for a new taskforce last month, charged with the specific responsibility of implementing recommendations contained within the Internet Crime Forum report Chat Wise, Street Wise.
[April 30, 2001, 7:31]
