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[glow=red,2,300]Web watchdog outlines porn battle [/glow]

The foundation gets an average of 1,000 alerts from users each month
More than 30,000 websites containing child pornography have been removed in the last 10 years, new figures show.
The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) said the key to addressing the problem was a partnership between the public, global authorities and web providers.

The number of these sites from the UK and containing illegal material fell from 18% to 0.2% in the decade.

The figures marked the IWF's first 10 years and its chief executive Peter Robbins said reporting porn was vital.

He said: "We need to get people reporting these incidents.

"Any complaint against something here in the UK we can deal with through the IWF, otherwise we advise the relevant country through their hotline, if they have one, or the police that there is a problem."

He added: "It's a partnership approach - we get in touch with the hosting provider to get them to remove it, and try to find out who the person was that put it up there so they can be dealt with."

[glow=red,2,300]REPORTS TO THE IWF [/glow]
85% relate to suspected child abuse websites
10% relate to suspected criminally obscene websites
5% relate to incitement to suspected racial hatred websites

[glow=red,2,300]Tackling child abuse online [/glow]

Since its inception in 1996, the IWF has received on average 1,000 reports of illegal internet content each month - a total of 120,000 reports. The vast majority concern suspected child abuse websites.

In its first year, it received 615 complaints. In 2006 it has had 27,750.

Although the number of UK websites providing such content has fallen, the severity of the images has significantly increased in the last 12 months.

Mr Robbins blames this on pay-per-view sites that use sophisticated means to avoid detection.

The IWF released the data to mark its 10th anniversary at a conference in central London of police, local authorities, government officials and the IT industry.

[glow=red,2,300]Message boards [/glow]

Home Office Minister Vernon Coaker said: "The government is determined to do everything it can to protect children from the insidious use of the internet by paedophiles.

"It is crucial to raise awareness amongst UK internet users about the IWF as a vehicle to report their inadvertent exposure to illegal content."

He said if web users came across pornography accidentally they should report it to the police without fear of prosecution.

Over the past decade, 51% of the illegal images were thought to have come from the US, 20% from Russia, 7% from Spain, 5% from Japan and 1.6% from the UK.

The IWF works with 24 countries which have set up equivalent organisations.

Technological developments and increasingly sophisticated tracing methods target online photo sharing services and message boards as well as newsgroups and websites.

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6079706.stm

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[glow=red,2,300]Internet child porn block calls [/glow]

Many companies already block access to child porn websites
Internet service providers have been urged to publicly declare whether they block the use of websites containing child pornography.
Labour MP Margaret Moran says she has support from MPs of all parties for a law compelling such companies to publish their policies.

But the Home Office has said it would prefer the industry to regulate itself.

Around one in five internet service providers have not declared whether they block child pornography sites.

The Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA), which has around 130 members, has said that the major companies already prevent access to such websites.

[glow=red,2,300]Compulsion [/glow]

And some companies are thought to not publicise the practice to make it harder for paedophiles to bypass filter systems.

Ms Moran, the Labour MP for Luton South, is expected to introduce the Control of Internet Access (Child Pornography) Bill later in a bid to compel these companies to alter their approach.

Her bill has been put forward under the ten-minute rule, which means it will be the subject of a brief debate on the floor of the Commons, but has no prospect of becoming law.

Under her proposals, companies providing internet access would be required to state, either on their websites or in their annual accounts, whether or not they allow access to child porn by users of their services.

[glow=red,2,300]'Name and shame' [/glow]

She said: "We know that there are many internet service providers that are doing a very good job in trying to prevent internet child pornography.

"My bill is really to ensure that we take the swiftest possible action to encourage internet service providers to use the existing technology to stop these images being relayed to those people who wish to see them, and are contributing to the child pornography trade.

"For every day and every week that we delay making sure that these images are not relayed, there are more children being abused."

BBC Crime Correspondent Neil Bennett said the MP has threatened to "name and shame" companies who fail to disclose their practices.

[glow=red,2,300]Most illegal child porn sites, he said, are monitored by police and are thought to be run from the US and Eastern Europe. [/glow]

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4377348.stm

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[glow=red,2,300]Vans across the UK will feature missing children posters[/glow]

Posters of missing children will be carried on hundreds of vans across the UK as part of an awareness campaign.
The Taking Kid Safety to the Street campaign aims to increase awareness of the problem and enlist the public's help in locating missing children.

The posters, of missing children featured on the police-run Missing Kids website, will be displayed on 500 vans of facilities management firm Emcor.

The campaign will also highlight the need for speed in finding children.

Crime problem

Richard Bryan, of the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo), said even the simplest missing child case can be a huge strain on police resources.

A lot of them get drawn into crime or they're victims of crime

Richard Bryan
Acpo

[glow=red,2,300]A father's 15-year search [/glow]

"Kids that go missing are a problem for everyone," he said.

"They are a problem for their families who just desperately want to make contact with them.

"They are a problem in policing terms because a lot of them get drawn into crime or they're victims of crime."

Police forces spend about £1,000 on finding each child who goes missing, he added.

[glow=red,2,300]Public help [/glow]

There are no reliable figures available for the number of children who go missing each year.

The Children's Society, which defines a missing child as someone under 16 who has been absent from home without permission for one night, estimates that 100,000 children run away each year.

Although about 90% of those are found, that still leaves thousands of missing children.

The campaign aims to enlist the public's help in locating missing children and to publicise the Missing Kids website, run by the UK Police National Missing Persons Bureau.

The scheme will be launched on Tuesday with an appeal to the public to help find Sasha McLeish, 15, who has not been seen since she left her Luton home on 23 June.

Hers is the first monthly poster to be used in the van campaign, which is being run in conjunction with the Parents and Abducted Children Together (Pact) charity.

Pact helps to publicise the Missing Kids website, and also distributes posters to some supermarkets

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6101014.stm