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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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Inter-working Function
White Papers The Interworking Function (IWF) acts as a gateway between the mobile network and data network infrastructure such as a WAP gateway. This paper discusses about IWF which is used to facilitate a circuit switched connection from the MSC to the WAP...
[November 6, 2003, 23:00]
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]
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]
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]
ISPs Failing To Protect Internet Kids
News ISPA, was one of the key bodies that helped launch the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) in 1996, with the purpose of making the Web a safe place for children to surf. Thus, however, has no intention to police illegal content hosted on its servers...
[February 26, 2001, 6:32]
Vorderman Attacks Net Industry For Porn Apathy
News At a heated debate of the Internet Watch Foundation's (IWF) first parliamentary meeting in the House of Lords, Vorderman stunned assembled members of the press and children's charities by accusing both government and the Internet industry of...
[January 23, 2001, 12:40]
Internet Watchdog Chief Quits
News The decision comes amid controversy over whether the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) should beef up its powers for dealing with illegal content on the Internet. He will now assist the IWF board in recruiting a replacement.
[January 7, 2002, 16:53]
UK ISPs Clean Up Their Act
News In its annual report, published this week, the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) said that in 1997, when the organisation launched, UK ISPs hosted 18 percent of child abuse images available on the Internet.
[March 26, 2004, 9:55]
Resignation Rush Threatens Internet Watchdog
News A document leaked to ZDNet UK News reveals that Clive Feather notified the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) of his decision to quit the board and the Funding Council by email on 20 December. The exodus of IWF board members has raised speculation...
[January 8, 2002, 13:50]
Thus Fails In Paedophile Pledge
News Thus, owner of Demon Internet, is playing down criticism, claiming that it has removed 30 newsgroups from its servers in the last seven days, accounting for 90 percent of all paedophile content reported to the company by the IWF (Internet Watch...
[March 1, 2001, 8:18]
Chatroom Danger: The Role Of The Internet Watch Foundation
News Founder member of the IWF board Cliff Stanford believes these two interests can sit quite happily together with no conflict at all. ISPs were under pressure from the police and the IWF was seen as a way of preventing them from receiving legal...
[March 15, 2001, 12:43]
