Mark Williams-Thomas MA Director - WT Associates Ltd
Social Networking Sites Exploited by Child Sex Offenders and Predatory Paedophiles to Abuse Children How can this Phenomenon be Policed? successfully ?
Internet Control May Vernon Coaker- Home Office expecting broadband ISPs to install web- filtering technology voluntarily by the end of next year (2007) but, if this deadline is not met, he would - he hinted strongly - consider legislation to force them to. IWF List- but what if not on the list?
P2P networks -to find and download files located on other P2P users’ hard drive and to share files located on their own computer. P2P -designed to accommodate large numbers of users, and capable of transferring vast amounts of data(images, videos, music) What is Peer to Peer
Peer to Peer sites Most popular networks BitTorrent via uTorrent and Azureus and the trackers & indexing sites Gnutella via Limewire eDonkey network via eMule
Grooming
Andrew LINTERN Andrew Lintern Oxford Scientist 20,000 images 10 years Abused a baby 2 Profiles
Video
Pro actively police Peer to Peer Pro-actively police social networking sites Create a national child sex offenders register Notify ISP, Social Networking sites of offenders names and details Create a national police task force to investigate online paedophiles What needs to be done?
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