Child abuse unit paying for data

[hoots the scoop]

The unit set up to tackle child sex abuse in the UK has had to pay tens of thousand of pounds to internet firms for information. The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) has spent more than £170,000 since 2006.

Should ISP's charge a fee for searching and passing back information to the police when the crime in question often takes place on and in areas created by companies themselves?

The information can "very often, identify, locate and safeguard a child who is subject to abuse," according to Mr Gamble.

The law says that ISPs can charge for the service. Some do not. Others, though, demand as much as £65 a time.

Should all the ISP's not have an open door policy when dealing with child abuse, thus maybe stopping some offenders actually starting to "groom", for fear of being caught?

Does the attitude of some ISP's make it easier for sex pests to operate?

Forgot the link to the story
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7840924.stm

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Paedophilia has existed throughout throughout history and always will.

As terrible and unforgiveable as this activity is ...

... it strikes me that in recent years, the whole issue of paedophiles, especially online, has been blown totally out of all proportion.

This appears to me no more than another manouvre by the powers that be to greatly overstate a problem & then offer a pre-determined solution. The result, people will unquestioningly give up their ever decreasing freedoms & herald the age of Draconian internet monitoring.

Don't believe me ? Well you can look up the proposals for the Government database that will store ALL recorded phonecalls, ALL intenet activity. (which incidently, is out to private tender ... ie. your private information would now be in the hands of the private sector)

Add this to Government DNA databases.
Add this to Government Children & family databases.

Unless you are totally naive, it emerges that EVERYONE is now presumed guilty.
EVERY aspect of your daily life is now open to scrutiny. (dont forget, the Government also now hold majority shareholdings in most of the banks)

WAKE UP !!! The paedophiles might not get your kids, but a totalitarian Government certainly will ....

[Beachcomber]

At the end of the day someone has to pay the wages of the people who collate and supply the information these agencies are asking the ISPs for.

If you hand the authorities a blank cheque then they may simply tell the ISPs "Give us all your data" which impacts upon us all, not just the people who are doing stuff they shouldn't be doing.

[hoots the scoop]

Paedophilia has existed throughout throughout history and always will.

As terrible and unforgiveable as this activity is ...

... it strikes me that in recent years, the whole issue of paedophiles, especially online, has been blown totally out of all proportion.

Is this a true reflection on how parents feel when they let their children surf the internet? Are our concerns justified?