 | INTERNET LAW - New British Law Targets Online Pedophiles & Social Networking Sites |
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| | Kelly O'Connell, IBLS Editor
Wednesday, April 09, 2008
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| | English Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has announced a new law that would force convicted pedophiles to hand over their e-mail addresses to the police who will take these and send them to social networking sites for blacklisting. The law stipulates that if such a person is detected using such a site, or using an un-registered e-mail address, the convicted child sex offenders could receive up to five years in prison. Smith said, "I want to see every child living their lives free from fear, whether they are meeting friends in a youth club or in a chat room.
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| INTERNET LAW - Israel: ISP's will Block Pornographic Sites upon Request |
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| | IBLS Contributor Odia Kagan Tel Aviv, Israel, odia@okaganlaw.com
Monday, August 27, 2007
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| | On July 8, 2007 a bill was approved by the Israeli Government's Ministers' Committee for legislation requiring ISPs to provide to clients a service for blocking websites which are "not fit for children". Such sites are defined websites containing primarily violent, pornographic or gambling content, provided that the websites are not intrinsically of any artistic scientific, news, educational or social value [More...] |
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| INTERNET LAW - Israeli Bill Will Require ISPs to Block Pornographic Sites |
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| | IBLS Contributor: Odia Kagan, Tel Aviv, Israel, odia@okaganlaw.com
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
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| | The Israeli Minister of Communication, Mr. Ariel Atias, of the ultra-religious party “Shas” is promoting a new bill to force Israeli Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to block pornographic websites using special filters. The sites would be un-blocked only pursuant to the specific request of a customer. The bill is intended to prevent minors from accessing websites with adult content (pornography and gambling) without imposing excessive controls, resulting in public outrage. [More...] |
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| INTERNET LAW - Child Pornography now Exchanged Via Mobiles |
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| | Editor, Maricelle Ruiz, IBLS Director – Europe
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
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| | It’s been a year since the Cybercrime Convention Committee updated this document to penalize the use of mobile phones to distribute child pornography. In recent days, the reason for this update has become more than evident in Spain, where police have detained nine individuals accused of exchanging child pornography through mobile phones. This is believed to be one of the first incidents of this kind in Europe, where a rise in child pornography on the Internet and the recent abductions of several youngsters have placed law enforcement authorities on high alert. [More...] |
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| INTERNET LAW - Prosecutors may not Need to Provide Expert Opinion Testimony in Child Pornography Prevention Act Cases to Meet their Burden of Proof. |
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| | Martha L. Arias, IBLS Director.
Monday, April 09, 2007
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| | A recent 2007 decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit (US v. Rodriguez-Pacheco) held that the prosecution needs not to provide expert opinion testimony to prove that a particular pornographic image depicted a real child- instead of a virtual image- to meet its burden of proof of preponderance of evidence at sentencing. This holding is interesting (and somehow tactful) complement to the United States Supreme Court decision on Free Speech Coalition case (535 US 234), where the Supreme Court granted First amendment protection to virtual –no real- child pornography images. [More...] |
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| INTERNET LAW - Children’s Internet Protection Act: a good Combination of Internet Access and Protection for Children |
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| | Martha L. Arias, IBLS Director.
Monday, April 02, 2007
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| | In 2000, the United States ("US') Congress passed the Children"s Internet Protection Act (“CIPA”) with the following objective: to 'assist most schools and libraries in the US to obtain affordable telecommunications and Internet accesses provided that certain online protection measures are followed. The combination cannot not be wiser, discount internet access and telecommunications to schools and libraries, specially those serving underpriviledged areas, in exchange of online protective measures for children. This program is commonly known as ‘E-rate’ program and is found in CIPA, section 1711. [More...] |
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| INTERNET LAW - A Bill intended to combat internet pornography against children is currently under consideration of the US House |
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| | Martha L. Arias, LL.B., J.D., LL.M.
Thursday, March 08, 2007
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| | and hope due action is taken rapidly. Rep. Jim Matheson (UT) presented H.R. bill 3479 “To protect children from Internet pornography and support law enforcement and other efforts to combat Internet and pornography-related crimes against children.” The bill was passed on July 2005, co-sponsored by 13 representatives and currently is under the House subcommittee on Select Education. [More...] |
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| INTERNET LAW - Parents be aware of adult content in wireless devices |
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| | Martha L. Arias, LL.B., J.D., LL.M.
Thursday, March 08, 2007
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| | The U.S. Federal Communication Commission –FCC- warns parents of the availability of adult content in wireless devices. People, including the young population, are increasingly using wireless phones and devices to communicate, search and entertain. Yet, wireless phones and other devices may offer sexually explicit and other adult contents harmful for children. [More...] |
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| INTERNET LAW - Gonzalez Pressures Internet Service Providers on Data Retention |
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| | IBLS Editorial Staff
Thursday, March 08, 2007
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| | United States Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales, and FBI Director, Robert Muller, held a meeting last Friday in which they urged telecommunications officials to record and maintain their customers’ internet activities. During the closed door meeting with industry representatives, Gonzales and Muller urged the executives to maintain their customers’ subscriber information and network data for two years, according to two separate anonymous sources.
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| INTERNET LAW - Tools for Filtering Out Sexually Explicit Online Contents |
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| | Martha L. Arias, LL.B., J.D., LL.M.
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
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| | Online filtering tools block sexually explicit materials like depictions of sexual acts, nudity, and sexually explicit text. Yet, filtering tools manufacturers may include different parameters in their products. Tools that use combine filtering strategies and multiple blocking may also block educational sites that contain valuable information for parents and children. Therefore, it is advisable for parents to search the filtering tools appropriate for their needs and concerns [More...] |
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| INTERNET LAW - Laptops Content may be Subject to Inspection upon Entering the United States |
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| | Martha L. Arias, IBLS Director.
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
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| | A recent and controversial decision by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in California held that the United States (U.S.) Customs Officials may seize and search travelers’ laptops upon entering the U.S. even in the absence of search warrant or probable cause.
The traditional 4th Amendment protection offered by the U.S. Constitution does not apply to airport searches, held this Court. "The government may conduct routine searches of persons entering the United States without probable cause, reasonable suspicion, or a warrant," the court stated, citing the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1985 ruling in United States v. Montoya de Hernandez, 473 U.S. 531.”
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| INTERNET LAW - Computer-Generated Child Pornography Images still Represent a Gap in the U.S. Law |
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| | Martha L. Arias, IBLS Director.
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
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| | On August 11 and November 22, 2006, U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner from Massachusetts District Court confirmed a long standing U.S. precedent suggesting that to secure a conviction for child pornography, prosecutors must prove that the images are images of real- not virtual- children. The holding on this Massachusetts case centered on First Amendment rights. The Court on its November decision held that "The Government may not suppress lawful speech as the means to suppress unlawful speech.” Indeed, the Court further said, “The possible harm to society in permitting some unprotected speech to go unpunished is outweighed by the possibility that protected speech of others may be muted.” [More...] |
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| INTERNET LAW - Criminals use more elusive methods to exchange abusive content online |
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| | Editor, Maricelle Ruiz, IBLS Director -- Europe
Wednesday, June 07, 2006
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| | European law enforcement officials have declared a war on child pornography which is being fought in several fronts with the assistance of international organizations, innovative tools and even the help of former hackers. The challenge in this war is that once a front is won, new ones open which are harder to crack.
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| INTERNET LAW - UK opens Centre to fight rising online child pornography |
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| | Editor, Maricelle Ruiz, IBLS Director -- Europe
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
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| | When she was five years old, a Russian teenager named Masha was adopted by an American who forced her into child pornography. Law enforcement officers want to avoid the repetition of such a situation at all costs and recently launched the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre based in the United Kingdom, where individuals can report online child sex abuse around the clock. [More...] |
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| INTERNET LAW - Strengthening Cooperation Between Law Enforcement and the Private Sector, Examples of How the Private Sector Has Blocked Child Pornographic Sites |
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| | Council of Europe
Thursday, May 04, 2006
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| INTERNET LAW - Overview of the legislation on Child Pornography in the Member States |
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| | EUROPOL
Thursday, May 04, 2006
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| INTERNET LAW - CHILD PORNOGRAPHY Legislation within the European Union |
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| | EUROPOL
Thursday, May 04, 2006
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| INTERNET LAW - Matrix on Child Pornography Legislation in EU Member States |
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| | EUROPOL
Thursday, May 04, 2006
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| INTERNET LAW - Child Victim, Top DOJ Officials to Testify At Hearing on Internet Pornography, Exploitation |
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| | The U.S. House of Representatives
Thursday, May 04, 2006
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| INTERNET LAW - Legislation of Interpol member states on sexual offences against children |
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| | Interpol International
Thursday, May 04, 2006
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