Mobile firms to block child porn
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Mobile firms launch a new alliance to block paedophiles using their phones to share child sexual abuse images.
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Police and internet companies launch a website for children to report possible paedophile activity.
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WEBSITES which fail to protect children from paedophiles could be 'named and shamed' in a campaign on Internet safety.   The head of an agency set up to protect young people online warned that he might take legal action against companies that did not improve security on their sites.
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After a call for a boycott from a Roman Catholic archbishop, hundreds of complaints and one lawsuit from customers, the Canadian phone company Telus abandoned a service that allowed cellphone customers to buy soft-core pornography. Telus, based in Vancouver, began offering pornography to its five million wireless customers along with more conventional downloads like music and ring tones last month. Jim Johannson, a spokesman for the company, said the decision to end the service was based in part on âcustomer feedback.â Mr. Johannson, however, did not rule out a change in policy. âWe operate in a really, really competitive business,â he said. âIn this environment, itâs very difficult to predict the future.â.
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A Pennsylvania law allowing the state to force Internet service providers to block access to child pornography sites is unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled on Friday.
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Schools and parents get new guidance aimed at stopping pupils using mobile phones and the internet to bully others.
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A technology expert explains how police broke up a global online porn ringâand why their methods should be a deterrent to future networks.
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Internet providers told Congress on Tuesday they&#039;re doing all they can to combat online child pornography, but they were told to expect legislation.
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NTT Go-NoGo 3GSM Japanese transport firms are using mobile phone technology to prevent drunk drivers from starting their shifts.â¦
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U.S. communications regulators are turning their sights on protecting children from indecency on mobile telephones after cracking down on television and radio stations for indecent antics.
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Mobile phone makers need to protect people from peeping toms and blackmailers who use built-in cameras to take secret pictures, campaigners said today.
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The government is to ban violent internet pornography, following a campaign by a murdered woman's mother.
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia's highest religious authority has barred the use of mobile phones with built-in cameras, blaming them for "spreading obscenity."   The edict, which follows a failed ban on the sale and import of the wildly popular devices, is the most sweeping attempt by any nation to prevent the voyeurism invited by the new technology.    Camera-equipped phones have caught on fast in parts of Asia, Europe and the Middle East - particularly in oil-rich Gulf countries - prompting complaints about privacy in places where people undress, "theft" of reading materials at book stores and newsstands, and corporate espionage by employees...
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Israel's Communications Ministry said Sunday it amended licenses for mobile phone operators to restrict access to pornographic services following complaints that too many children were exposed to erotic material.
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Justice Department attorneys, defending a law aimed at keeping online pornography from minors, argued that software filters often block valid sites &#151; on gay rights or sexual health, for example &#151; that teens might seek out.
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England's commissioner for children and a civil liberties group have joined in a campaign to ban high-frequency devices intended to drive misbehaving children away from shops and other areas.
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A proposed law would require companies to keep detailed data about peopleâs Internet and phone use.