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IP: Net Pron and "file fingerprinting"
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 07:53:27 -0400
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 09:14:47 +0200 From: Robert Shaw <robert.shaw () itu int> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5b2 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en To: David.Goldstein () aba gov au David.Goldstein () aba gov au wrote:
ISPs liable for Net porn in legal deal By NICOLE MANKTELOW 13oct98 http://www.newsit.com.au/index.asp?URL=/techno/4223737.htm INTERNET service providers may face liability for child pornography and other illegal online content after a series of top-level meetings on Net regulation in Australia.
In May 1998, Interpol (The International Criminal Police Organization) and an NGO, ECPAT (End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and the Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes) held a meeting at Interpol headquarters to discuss the problems of stopping the distribution of child pornograpy on the Internet. The meeting brought together approximately 50 experts from various disciplines around the world including law enforcement agencies, some large Internet service providers, and NGO's concerned with child rights. At that meeting a prototype of a child pornography detection software developed by a German police officer/IT specialist was demonstrated based on detecting file fingerprints (a lot of child pornography has been catalogued). Development was taken over by a German company and in the last few days they've announced test versions available (DOS/Win95/98/NT with Unix versions to come). They say the software is being used by the German BKA, Interpol, Scotland Yard, and the FBI. See http://www.perkeo.net Robert -- Robert Shaw <robert.shaw () itu int> Head a.i., IED/Advisor, Global Information Infrastructure International Telecommunication Union <http://www.itu.int> Place des Nations, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland * APPLe: To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe" to apple-request () apnic net *
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