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IWF crackdown on Net paedophiles gets £100,000
News The UK's online pornography regulator the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) announced over £100,000 of additional funding on Monday to help implement some of the recommendations contained in the government-backed Chat Wise, Street Wise report.
[April 3, 2001, 15:13]
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]
IWF says ISPs must drop illegal newsgroups
News After much heated discussion and opposition from cyber-liberty advocates, an IWF board meeting resolved that UK ISPs should be called to review their policies on newsgroups, and reduce the amount of groups that are shown to be regularly receiving...
[July 19, 2001, 10:10]
IWF lambasted for plan to ban newsgroups
News The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) resolved on Wednesday to take a tougher line with Internet service providers (ISPs), by telling them to completely drop newsgroups that are found to contain illegal content on a regular basis.
[July 19, 2001, 17:22]
News Burst: IWF calls for clarification on Race Relations Act
News Prompted by calls from the public, the Chief Executive of the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) -- the UK's Internet watchdog -- today called for the government to clarify the Race Relations Act to enable better policing of race-hate sites based in...
[July 6, 1999, 11:12]
Web of Porn: IWF goes global
News European Union money has been made available for a joint venture with European agencies and the IWF is also working closely with the US-based Recreational Software Advisory Council (RSAC). Founder of the IWF Peter Dawe is delighted by the new...
[March 9, 1999, 11:56]
IWF defers newsgroup policy decision
News The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) failed to reach a consensus of opinion on whether Internet service providers (ISPs) should have their self-regulatory approach towards dealing with unlawful newsgroups revoked, when a board member deliberately...
[April 27, 2001, 16:05]
The IWF an unlected censorship organisation
Talkback Regarding the Wikipedia censorship, the IWF textually says "the image has been around for a long time", so it is OK to unblock it. The IWF has their knickers in a twist, they cant even admit they are classifying works of art as child porn.
[February 20, 2009, 21:25]
The IWF's purpose in life
Talkback The IWF has a single purpose: to keep the Government off the ISPs' backs. It's unfortunate that the people involved in it have lost sight of this and now think they have to actually do stuff to justify their existence.
[February 20, 2009, 21:28]
Technical White Paper for ATM-ETH IWF
White Papers The routers with IWF feature provide a perfect solution for making full use of existent ATM network and devices (ATM DSLAM, ATM Switch, etc. With the development of Ethernet, ATM access network is stepping towards Ethernet.
[October 1, 2008, 1:01]
And WHO made the decision in the IWF name
Talkback I have searched the IWF and Googled madly to find the names of the decision makers within the IWF. While the IWF is a good thing to keep a paternal eye on the UK net, the composition of the actual "paternal eye executive" must be publicly known and...
[January 20, 2009, 17:42]
Chat rooms targetted by Internet Watch Foundation
News The review, published last month, praised the work done by IWF and recommended its focus be extended to online chat rooms. David Kerr, chief executive of IWF believes chat rooms are "the next big problem" in the fight against child exploitation on...
[March 2, 1999, 11:17]
A Year Ago: Chat rooms targetted by Internet Watch Foundation
News A government review of the industry backed Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) has called for greater powers for the organisation to fight child pornography on the Internet The review, published last month, praised the work done by IWF and recommended...
[March 2, 2000, 5:37]
ISPs told to step up child porn crackdown
News Commenting yesterday on the first annual report of the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), a Government sponsored watchdog, Minister for Industry Barbara Roche said that measures taken so far by ISPs are having an impact.
[March 5, 1998, 12:05]
UK ISPs switch on mass Wikipedia censorship
Blog Comment And the IWF have backed down: http://www.iwf.org.uk/media/news.251.htm
[December 10, 2008, 9:44]
Firms keep silent over child pornography
News Most UK companies would rather keep quiet than call the police if they caught employees downloading child pornography, according to research published by the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) on Wednesday.
[May 11, 2005, 12:30]
House of Lords discusses child safety online
News The House of Lords is to debate the issue of protecting children online Tuesday at a seminar entitled Protecting the online generation: the crucial role of the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF). In the midst of controversy surrounding the adoption...
[January 22, 2001, 14:34]
Internet regulator considers anti-paedophile powers
News A drawn-out board meeting on Thursday discussed whether the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) should take greater responsibility for illegal content on the Internet, by considering stronger action to address paedophile activity in Usenet newsgroups.
[November 21, 2001, 6:31]
UK ISPs switch on mass Wikipedia censorship
Blog Comment I should probably point out that the reason it's blocked is that the IWF considers that it would be illegal to view that image under English law. The IWF has a press release linked from their homepage (at www.iwf.org.uk ), which gives their...
[December 8, 2008, 10:33]
Principle and practice
Talkback At the moment we have IWF acting without warning and refusing to engage in dialogue with Wikimedia, and the big ISPs sloppily blocking a whole article instead of just the image, plus failing to proxy transparently.
[December 11, 2008, 11:51]
