Peter Robbins QPM

Chief Executive

International Approach to illegal content

27th Jan 2005

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Recognise these headlines?

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or these?

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Council of Europe Looks to Fight Cybercrime

Child pornography on the Internet is an industry worth approximately $20 billion this year. Surveys in 2003 suggest that child pornography accounts for 24 percent of image searches in peer-to-peer applications.

Source: Newsday.com 15.9.4

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Overview

• History• Accountability• International partnerships• Statistics• Working Examples• Future Challenges

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History

• Internet Hotline • Universal notice & takedown

service for internet & mobile operators

• Notification service to financial services sector

• NFP > charity• Non statutory > relevant authority• Content and logos not suspects

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www.iwf.org.uk

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RoleFoster trust and confidence in the internet among current and future internet users

– Hotline– Visibility of our function

Assist service providers combat the abuse of their systems

– Notice & takedown service– Newsgroup policy development– Acting as a relevant authority (S46 SOA 2003 – MoU)

Assist LEA’s in the fight against criminal content on the Internet.

– Info to partner hotlines– Info to LEA’s across the world

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Sexual Offences Act 2003

•Section 45Raised the age of child to include 16 & 17

•Section 46Reverse the burden of proof.MoU

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Accountability

• Main Board

• Funding Council

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Main Board

• Independent Chair

• 6 non industry members

• 3 industry members

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Funding Council (1)

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Funding Council (2)

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Funding Council (3) Mobile

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Membership 1999-2005

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Sponsors

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International Relationships

• EU Safer Internet Action Plan

(SIAP)

• INHOPE Association

• 20 Hotline members worldwide

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Mission of Inhope

The mission of INHOPE is to facilitate and co-ordinate the work of hotlines in responding to illegal use and content on the internet.

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INHOPE Objectives

• Exchanging expertise• Exchanging reports • Supporting new hotlines• Interfacing with initiatives

outside the EU • Educating and informing policy

makers, particularly at the international level

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Police Liaison• NHTCU• NCIS• NCS (POLIT)• SOCA?• UKNCMEC?• UK Regional Centres of Excellence• Child Protection/High Tech Teams (43)• Combating Child Abuse Online Group

(CCAI)• Internet Crime Forum (ICF)

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Government Relationships

• Home Office – G8/EU Presidency

• HO Internet Task Force

• DTI

• DfES

• Foreign Office – Russian problem!

• Ofcom

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APACS Partnership

• PPV Websites• Switch• Mastercard• Visa• Funding support

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Statistics 1997-2004

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Online Reports

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Internet Location-2004

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Percentage of illegal content hosted in the UK 1997 - 2004

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18% 12% 5% 3% 3% 2% 1% 1%

1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004

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Illegal Content by Region-2004

China2%

Other3%

Thailand5%

UK1%

Europe12%

Russia32%

Korea (South)6%

USA39%

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2004 Awareness CampaignIT Professionals

Advert IT Week magazine September 2004

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2004 Awareness CampaignIT Professionals

Research1,000 IT Management Professionals (IT Weekreaders) were questioned about their understandingof the new Sexual Offences Act 2003, illegal imagesof children on company networks and internal policyon how to deal with them

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2004 Awareness CampaignIT Professionals

Research Results87% of IT Professionals were NOT aware of thechanges to the law on handling indecent images ofchildren

90% of companies interviewed had an AcceptableUse Policy but less than 65% had a specific policyfor dealing with potentially illegal images of children

68% of participants believed they understood whatconstituted a potentially illegal image of a child butonly 27% were able to give the correct age of a‘child’ in this context

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2004 Awareness CampaignIT Professionals

Research Results cont.63% of participants or their systems staff regularlyview internet sites or content for monitoring orregulating purposes

73% would not report illegal images of childrenfound on company networks to the police, despiteinternally disciplining the employee committing theoffence

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2005 Awareness CampaignIT Professionals

Next stepIncreased contact with IT ProfessionalsInformation on the IWF websiteInfo about SOA & MoU to be distributed to

2,500 ITWeek readers

Further awareness promotions & advertising in

appropriate trade journals and websites

wipeitout@iwf.org.uk

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Search Engine - Keywords

• AOI (age of innocence)• Asparagus (homosexual

paedophilia)• BC series (black cat)• Boylove• Lolitasmile• Lolporn• MCLT (my cute lolita teen)

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Challenges

• Mobile internet • MMS & picture storage• Cleanfeed• Peer2Peer• Traceability• Jurisdiction• Encryption• Social networking• New era bulletin boards• Anon payment mechanisms

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Contact Details

Internet Watch Foundation5 Coles Lane, Oakington

Cambridge, CB4 5BA, UK

Tel:+44 1223 237700Fax:+44 1223 235921

Web: http://www.iwf.org.ukemail: chief@iwf.org.ukContact: Peter Robbins