Documenti di Didattica
Documenti di Professioni
Documenti di Cultura
Indecent Images:
Mediated Internet Communications
● Domain names
– Registries & registrars
● 75% of commercial child sexual abuse domains are linked to
just 10 Registries/ Registrars
● Payment providers
– Commercial ‘pay-per-view’ & organised crime
● IWF 2008 Annual Report: 3000 sites
● Pre-paid credit cards
– European Financial Coalition
● Combating the commercial distribution of child abuse
Data integrity
iccl@ccls.edu
● Source
– Reports received
– Internal investigations
● Determination of potential criminal illegality
– Law enforcement trained (e.g. CEOP)
● Court endorsed 5-level categorisation
● Indecent v obscene material
● Accuracy
– Minimising collateral intrusion
● Wikipedia incident (December 2008)
– Text & image data
– Communication attributes
Transparency
iccl@ccls.edu
● User notification
– Prior notice
● Data protection obligations
– e.g. The Telecommunications (Lawful Business Practice)
(Interception of Communications) Regulations 2000
● Publish scheme FAQ & list of participants
– Splash pages
● http://404 (technical error) or http://403 (prohibited page)
● List appeal mechanism
– e.g. Wikipedia incident (Scorpions album cover)
● contextual considerations
Accountability
iccl@ccls.edu
● Independent board
– Majority non-industry representatives
● e.g. child protection, legal
– External oversight
● Periodic independent reviews
● Public function/authority?
– Judicial review, subject to FOI laws
– Public law enforcement activity?
● Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP)
– Democratic mandate
● ‘prescribed by law’
iccl@ccls.edu
Concluding remarks