Online sex offenders tracked

[Al-khiyal]

U.K. - Paedophile ban on networking sites

April 4, 2008 -- Paedophiles will be banned from social networking websites such as Facebook, under measures announced by ministers.

Convicted child sex offenders will be forced to disclose their email addresses to police, who will then pass the details to websites to block access.

The Home Office admitted details of the scheme are yet to be worked out and questions remain over whether the global nature of the web could hamper the complex issues involved.

For example, MySpace and Facebook - the world's fifth and sixth most popular websites in terms of traffic - are both based in California.

New online safety guidelines published by the Home Office also urged parents to attempt a new kind of embarrassing conversation with their offspring - about the dangers of online flirting and sexuality.

Home Office minister Vernon Coaker said the anti-paedophile measures will be brought in once Parliament has passed legislation allowing ministers to vary the terms of the sex offenders register.

The Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill, currently in the Lords, could be in force by the autumn. It would be applied retrospectively to more than 30,000 sex offenders on the register, a Home Office spokesman said. Failing to comply would carry up to five years' imprisonment.

Mr Coaker said: "This is something that will be particularly useful in combating the possible grooming of children on the internet. We will work with the industry. It will be a matter of partnership between industry and law enforcement to make sure this law is made effective."

The Home Office's online safety guidance urged parents to learn about their children's online activities, including which sites they use. It also included advice for youngsters on how to avoid placing themselves in compromising situations.

The document warned youngsters not to post "sexually provocative or explicit" photographs of themselves. Children should be urged to "think before they post", particularly when material may involve "images from a party or of outrageous or compromising behaviour".

[Bent_Bladi]

that's good to hear... but can't they just make another email?

[ssew]

yeh they could, and use other information. The magic that is internet.

But you cant change your ip. So maybe they need to know that rather than your email.

[amalgamate]

you can change IP's by just moving to different places like libraries or coffee houses.

The banning of pedophiles has got to be more sophisticated than that.

[Al-khiyal]

[Al-khiyal]

YouTube technology helps Google police child pornography

April 19, 2008 -- Google has adapted an existing program in a bid to track files containing child pornography.

The software, which was originally created by the search engine to block copyrighted videos from being posted on its YouTube site, is now being used by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) to identify and remove files containing child sex abuse.

In the past year alone, the NCMEC has investigated over five million child sex abuse images and videos. Google hopes the software will make it easier and quicker to sort through the files.

"The tools we've built for NCMEC will allow its analysts to more efficiently and accurately manage the task of sifting through the videos and images they have collected," said Alan Eustace, senior vice president of engineering and research at Google.

"The program uses pattern recognition and will work even if the pattern has been modified. So if police can identify a pattern such as a calendar on the wall or a t-shirt logo, they have a much better chance of finding the exploited child and catching the suspect," explained technology analyst Larry Magid.

"Criminals are using cutting edge technology to commit their crimes of child sexual exploitation, and in fighting to solve those crimes and keep children safe, we must do the same," said NCMEC president and CEO Ernie Allen.

[Bent_Bladi]

alhamdulilah.... these disgusting freaks, catch them all and throw them in a fiery pit