IWF

24 October 2012 at 7:40am

IWF Awareness Day

Andrew Cormack
IWF
Illegal Material
October 24th is the annual Internet Watch Foundation awareness day. Discussion of the IWF often highlights, and rightly so, its success in reducing the availability of indecent images of children on the internet. But the most important result of reporting images to the IWF is when the police, notified by the IWF and its peer hotlines in other countries, are able to rescue real children from real abuse.
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6 June 2012 at 11:03am

A "Copyright Watch Foundation"?

Andrew Cormack
IWF
copyright
internet filtering
I was struck by a recent suggestion from the Minister for Culture, Media and Sport that there could be “a cross-industry body, perhaps modelled on the Internet Watch Foundation [IWF], to be charged with identifying infringing websites against which action could be taken”.
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13 August 2012 at 11:06am

IWF Annual Report 2011

Andrew Cormack
Illegal Material
IWF
The annual report of the Internet Watch Foundation was published yesterday. The highlight is news that through closer collaboration with hotlines and Internet industries in other countries, the average time for removal of an illegal indecent image of a child from the Internet has dropped from over a month to twelve days.  That is the average world-wide: in the UK such images are removed in hours.
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13 August 2012 at 11:01am

IWF Annual Report 2010

Andrew Cormack
IWF
Illegal Material
The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) published its annual report yesterday, including information on the use of the Internet to distribute indecent images of children. There is quite a lot of good news to report.
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13 August 2012 at 11:02am

Non-photographic indecent images of children

Andrew Cormack
IWF
Illegal Material
I've been reminded that section 62 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009, passed last November, created a new offence of possessing non-photographic images of children that are pornographic and fall into one of a number of sexual categories. When the section is brought into force such images will be classed in the same way as indecent photographs and pseudo-photographs of children, already illegal to possess under the amended Protection of Children Act 1972.
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13 August 2012 at 11:07am

apComms - Regulating the Internet

Andrew Cormack
Privacy
Role of ISPs
copyright
internet filtering
IWF
The all-party parliamentary communications group (apComms) have published the results of their enquiry into various aspects of internet security - entitled "Can we keep our hands off the net?" - to which JANET provided written evidence earlier in the summer.
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6 June 2012 at 9:32am

Internet Watch Foundation AGM

Andrew Cormack
IWF
The Annual General Meeting of the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) brought some very positive news on efforts to reduce the availability of indecent images of children on the Internet. Thanks to the self-regulatory action of UK hosting providers only a tiny fraction of illegal images reported to IWF are hosted in the UK - down from 18% when the IWF was founded - and those are removed quickly when the IWF notifies the hosting site.
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