Reid targets online paedophiles
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John Reid says new measures to protect children online - including a parental alarm - are to be unveiled.
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Shadowy network identified after ISP tip-off German investigators are attempting to identifying participants in a massive online child sex abuse network reckoned to have involved 12,000 people.â¦
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A scheme is trialled allowing parents to check whether people with access to their children have paedophile convictions.
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Scotland's education minister is outlining ways in which children can be protected from internet grooming.
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Unprecedented convictions Three paedophiles who used internet chat rooms to plot to kidnap and rape two sisters were jailed for a total of 27 years at Southern Crown Court on Monday.â¦
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By Michael Howie  WEBSITES should do more to protect children from online sex attackers, according to Home Office guidelines.
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Australian Federal Police say the arrest of more than 150 people in relation to internet child pornography should send a clear message about the seriousness of the crime.
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Australia's Labor government plans new rules to protect children from online pornography and violence.
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MORE Territory arrests are expected as a massive Internet child pornography sting envelopes the country. Nine Territorians have already been charged in the covert police operation, including one former Darwin teacher.
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Children using hugely popular social   networking Web sites such as MySpace.com and Bebo.com face   bullying, unsuitable advertising and pornography, a report by a   UK consumer watchdog magazine said on Thursday.
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The home secretary is to set out plans to crack down on those who "groom" people for extremism via the internet.
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New York&#39;s attorney general and state legislative leaders presented a bill on Tuesday aimed at protecting people from sexual predators on the Internet, aand Facebook, MySpace, and Yahoo backed the effort.In a press conference, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, Senate Majority Leader Joseph L. Bruno, and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver announced legislation they called &quot;groundbreaking&quot; in its proposed restrictions and controls of sexual offenders&#39; online activities.&quot;Today I believe we&#39;re proposing the most comprehensive, smartest, toughest law in the nation to keep people safe online, especially minors,&quot; Cuomo said.The Electronic Security and Targeting of Online Predators Act (e-STOP) responds to the widely documented use that sexual offenders make of the Internet, in particular social-networking sites, to stalk and victimize people, particularly minors.Specifically, e-STOP would require convicted sex offenders to register their e-mail addresses, instant message screen names, and any other online identifiers with the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services. That data would then be made available to social-networking companies and other online services so that they can then block access to sexual offenders and remove them from their sites.The bill also calls for allowing sentencing courts and the state&#39;s Parole Board to restrict the online activities of sex offenders who used the Internet to commit their crimes, victimized a minor, or are considered highly likely to repeat their offenses. In particular, the bill would ban many sex offenders from using social-networking sites.There are more than 627,000 registered sex offenders in the U.S., about 25,000 of whom are in New York, according to Cuomo&#39;s office.State attorneys general have been very vocal about their concerns over online safety, in particular of minors who are preyed upon by sexual offenders on social-networking sites, which are widely used by teens.The attorneys general have often criticized Facebook, MySpace, and other sites for, in their view, not doing enough to protect minors, but the two sides have recently seemed to get on better terms and have rolled out several joint security initiatives, partnerships and agreements.The e-STOP bill is needed to help social-networking companies keep their sites safer and will complement these companies&#39; in-house security efforts, Cuomo said.MySpace Chief Security Officer Hemanshu Nigam agreed and said laws need to keep up with the times and technology. &quot;We hope [e-STOP] becomes a model for other states to follow,&quot; Nigam said.&quot;As Facebook and other Internet companies do our best to exclude [from our sites] those who would do our users harm, we need help from the government,&quot; said Chris Kelly, Facebook&#39;s chief privacy officer.Ideally, legislation like e-STOP would get enacted widely in U.S. states and also at the federal level, Cuomo said.
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Police launched a Web site on Tuesday to  warn children as young as eight about the dangers of putting  their personal details on social networking sites such as  MySpace and Bebo.
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By Leader  EDINBURGH MP Nigel Griffiths is right to call for more control by website operators like YouTube over material which encourages criminal behaviour, but politicians should resist introducing formal measures to clamp down on such sites.
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MORE than 500 Australians could be implicated in the international crackdown on Internet child pornography, police said yesterday as the first of those arrested appeared in court.
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Social workers have raised concerns that paedophiles may exploit a database containing children's details, The Times says.
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Britain&#39;s government said on Thursday it  had launched an inquiry to see what new legal measures may be  required to protect children from the impact of violent video  games and Web pornography.