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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.
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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 2006 -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?
What is Peer to Peer 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)
Peer to Peer sites • Most popular networks • BitTorrent via uTorrent and Azureus and the trackers & indexing sites • Gnutella via Limewire • eDonkey network via eMule
Andrew Lintern • Oxford Scientist • 20,000 images • 10 years • Abused a baby • 2 Profiles Andrew LINTERN
What needs to be done? • 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