Child protection
28 August 2010
Facebook gives way after child porn bust Sydney Morning Herald
Facebook has agreed to pass information about criminal activity on its site to Australian police, after revelations it had ignored repeated warnings about an international child pornography ring operating among its pages.
27 August 2010
Facebook failed to tell Australian police about paedophile porn ring Sydney Morning Herald
Facebook management failed repeatedly to reveal the activity of an international child pornography syndicate operating on their site and ignored continuing admissions by one of the ring's Australian members.
19 August 2010
Germany faces obstacles in its bid to lead the global fight against Internet child pornography Deutsche Welle
Germany sees itself in the forefront of the fight against Internet child porn - a battle critics say it's losing due to international law discrepancies and its own protection laws.
18 August 2010
Ratings review may alter Australia's proposed net filter: Conroy ABC News
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has conceded that a Classification Board review could "substantially" change the proposed mandatory internet filter.
09 August 2010
Craigslist is hub for child prostitution, allege trafficked women The Guardian
Open letter to founder Craig Newmark in Washington Post tells stories of young women sold for sex through 'adult services' ads
Japan child porn cases surge to record high Asia One
Japanese police investigated almost 600 child porn cases in the first half of the year - a new record and 60 percent more than in the same period last year, a government survey said Thursday.
04 August 2010
US DOJ report says child porn on the rise San Francisco Chronicle
The spread of child pornography, fueled by technology and the Internet, is outpacing efforts to combat it, the Justice Department said Monday in a report to Congress that promises more arrests, prosecutions and better coordination among federal, state and local authorities.
29 July 2010
Australian government hints at possible filter changes during election campaign The Australian
Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan has suggested changes could be made to the Federal Government's proposed internet filter.
20 July 2010
Australian government plans for expert to check each banned web page The Australian
The federal government will hand-pick an "expert" to manually check up to 10,000 blacklisted web pages.
13 July 2010
Fractious ISPs may fumble their chance on Australia's internet filter The Australian
Australian ISPs have an opportunity to see off Labor's mandatory internet censorship laws, but their disunity could let it slip.
12 July 2010
Facebook to launch child safety 'panic button' in Britain BBC News
Facebook has announced it will allow a "panic button" application on its social networking site.
09 July 2010
Australian government puts internet filter on backburner ABC News
The Federal Government has deferred the introduction of its mandatory internet filtering program. Communications Minister Senator Stephen Conroy says the filter will not be put in place until an independent review can be carried out into what content would be banned.
Australia's internet filter 'won't protect kids' The Age
Protecting children online could be harder with a mandatory internet filter in place, a coalition including state schools, librarians and key players in the internet industry has warned.
07 July 2010
Australian ISP filtering legislation on the way The Australian
The federal government hopes to introduce legislation to enable its controversial internet filter by the end of the year.
01 July 2010
Paedophiles 'increasingly access images from webcams' BBC News
Paedophiles are increasingly accessing indecent pictures of children from webcams, experts warn.
29 June 2010
How schools can really fight cyberbullying Salon
Twelve-year-olds are just about the scariest human beings on the planet. And if you thought your own middle school years were hellish, remember, at least you didn't have Facebook. As a stomach-churning story in Sunday's New York Times makes clear -- the Internet is making it easier than ever for the Nelson Muntzes of the world to do their dirty work, and schools are struggling to figure out how to protect their kids while protecting their privacy. The ongoing challenge is -- how responsible are educators for the terrible things kids do on their own time? If a sixth grader is sending out "shocking, sexually explicit threats" to another student on a phone on a Saturday night, what recourse does a school community have?
28 June 2010
Online Bullies Pull Schools Into the Fray New York Times
The girl's parents, wild with outrage and fear, showed the principal the text messages: a dozen shocking, sexually explicit threats, sent to their daughter the previous Saturday night from the cellphone of a 12-year-old boy. Both children were sixth graders at Benjamin Franklin Middle School in Ridgewood, N.J.
22 June 2010
Facebook risk for children who are adopted The Independent
Social networking websites such as Facebook can pose a serious risk to adopted children who can be easily tracked down by birth relatives they may not be ready to meet, a charity has warned.
19 June 2010
Austria police make record child porn seizure BBC News
A 53-year-old man has been arrested in Austria after more than a million pornographic pictures of children were found in his flat, police say.
16 June 2010
Battle Rages Over Australia's Internet Filter Time
The concept of government-backed web censorship is usually associated with nations where human rights and freedom of speech are routinely curtailed. But if Canberra's plans for a mandatory Internet filter go ahead, Australia may soon become the first Western democracy to join the ranks of Iran, China and a handful of other nations where access to the Internet is restricted by the state.
13 June 2010
Facebook closer to Australian security deal ABC News
Criticism of Facebook seems to have struck home with the company's US headquarters after the social networking site agreed to formally consider a call for a dedicated law enforcement liaison officer in Australia.
10 June 2010
Child porn isn't art, Canadian Court of Appeal rules Toronto Sun
A Toronto photographer who was acquitted of possession of "repulsive" child pornography he amassed as part of an art project was ordered convicted by Ontario's highest court.
07 June 2010
US report urges more education about online safety Washington Post
An online safety committee created by Congress will recommend on Friday that educators and government leaders focus on teaching children and parents about safe Internet practices while recognizing the limits of filtering technology in protecting young people.
02 June 2010
'Anti-grooming' software can detect paedophiles The Independent
Scientists have developed "anti-grooming" software which can tell young people if they are chatting to an adult posing as a child on the internet.
31 May 2010
Japanese child porn sites told to remove data [Kyodo News] Japan Times
The Metropolitan Police Department on Friday asked five companies and one individual that administer seven Web sites to delete child pornography-related data from the sites, which introduce and rank Internet child pornography, police said.
