Digital cameras blamed for spread of child porn

deegs

http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single10024

16.01.2008 - The internet and digital camera technology have made it easier for paedophiles to record and transmit child pornography, an Interpol report presented to MEPs in Brussels yesterday claimed.

The bleak assessment of the problem by Interpol said: "The internet...and digital cameras have made it easier for individuals with a sexual interest in children to record their activities”.

Interpol said a major problem for law enforcement agencies is that many sites and children being abused are not in the EU, but in the developing world.

In a speech on children's rights in Berlin in June last year, the EU's Justice Commissioner Franco Frattini told delegates he was "saddened and shocked" to hear that the number of sites with child-sex material went up 1500pc from 1997 to 2005.

The Interpol report, dubbed the Angelilli Report, laid down a number of options to deal with these disturbing trends.

Blocking credit card payment for paedophile material is one step advocated by the report. This would involve co-operation with credit card companies to get them to block certain sites from receiving money for the material they sell.

Stopping access to sites is another possibility. This would mean internet service providers and search engines using available technology to hamper access to dangerous sites. Closing down sites is another option, although this could only be done if they are based in the EU.

These steps would go hand-in-hand with a database of sites that sell child pornography. Finally, a website dedicated to the rights of the child - so they know what rights they have - is another idea in the report.

By John Kennedy

sheesh, hardly an accurate statement!

DublinWriter

Yes...all from the same people who legislated so tirelessly to ensure our bananas were curvature-free.

Alun

DublinWriter wrote: »

Yes...all from the same people who legislated so tirelessly to ensure our bananas were curvature-free.

http://ec.europa.eu/unitedkingdom/press/euromyths/myth05_en.htm

Mellor

Technology has made it easier, not just digital cameras.
This applies to alot of things not just child porn, all porn, all info etc etc

Paulw

I remember back in '93, at a book launch, where a TD stated that over 80% of the information on the internet is porn. The author of the book replied that when you search for porn, over 80% of the results are porn. While in fact less than 5% of the data on the internet related to adult material.

It just goes to show, it's easy to make statements when you don't have the whole facts.

kmick

Yeah and wheelbarrows make it easier to steal turf. Why the **** dont they spend the money they spent on this report arresting a few of these unsavoury characters. Technology has made it easier for them to share but it should have also have made it a lot easier to track these guys. I mean ffs we have a monitoring station in the uk which can search through all of europes data traffic (echelon). These guys should be easy to spot with the right investment and international agreements.

PaulieC

I think it's maybe perverts that should be blamed for the spread of child porn. Just an observation

Borderfox

Everytime I hear some statistics being spouted out I check the source and try to understand their agenda as to why they release this information. Kmick its quite similar to Cigarettes and Cocaine and Heroin, the Government loses duty and vat on Cigarettes so that where all the detection money goes to not on the others, same thing with the Gardai, will we go out and track down criminals or stand at the end of this long straight road and collect speeding fines... Interpol are basically saying that they have given up.. oh and we blame the internet and digital cameras!!

magicbastarder

it's the headline on the article which raises the concept of blame; nothing in the report implies interpol are doing anything other than stating fact.

Dades

^^ Agreed ^^

cambo_gueno wrote: »

I think it's maybe perverts that should be blamed for the spread of child porn. Just an observation

Also true!

Psychobiker

Of COURSE digital cameras are to blame. Be careful of the chap who can conceal a 1D w/1200mm

Thirdfox

Well he's probably a birder in camouflage netting... easy mistake to make

Even with my D40 and 55-200 attached some people see me and ask "Am I going to be on the news?" Very disappointed to learn I'm just an amateur photographer (but at least they don't think I'm a paedophile!)

thefizz

magicbastarder wrote: »

it's the headline on the article which raises the concept of blame; nothing in the report implies interpol are doing anything other than stating fact.

Ditto

Masada

thats the most ridiculous report ive ever heard.,
maybe we should all go to the local cop shop and hand in our cameras to do our part to stop child abuse.,:rolleyes:
its sick bast*rds that increase child porn, not cameras.

sheesh

car manufacturers are responsible for road deaths drug, trafficking, unplanned pregancy etc.

Fenster

Thank god it was in Europe, as if it were here we'd have some idiot trying to legislate the sale of cameras.

"You must be a resident, provide ID and register it at your local police station!"

That said, I believe that the internet has helped the spread of child porn, but the problem as I see it are that only the bottom feeders are caught. I see it all the time on both Irish and US news. XYZ makes a purchase on a child porn site using his own information and credit card details, doesn't know how to delete his browsing history, encrypt files, etc. and gets caught. Look at that eejit judge.

The people behind the distribution network are technically savvy and not of a mind to get caught. Most international sting operations that I have seen just result in dumb end users being caught and not the distributors.

magicbastarder

Fenster wrote: »

Thank god it was in Europe, as if it were here we'd have some idiot trying to legislate the sale of cameras.

cameras don't abuse kids, people abuse kids!

Masada

there was a huge peado ring caught in russia a few months ago if i remember correctly, they were supposed to be one of the biggest in the world i think.,

projectmayhem

actually they got it wrong. it's clearly not digital cameras or the internet that spreads child pr0n, it's videogames.

Fenster

projectmayhem wrote: »

actually they got it wrong. it's clearly not digital cameras or the internet that spreads child pr0n, it's videogames.

You rat bastard! Your rape crimes sicken me!

/jack thompson

Actually, I think he actually made that very accusation regarding games at one point.

thefizz

I think some people are jumping the gun here.

The report simply states that "the internet and digital camera technology have made it easier for paedophiles to record and transmit child pornography". Which it obviously does.

The report does not say that digital cameras should be banned or restricted in any way.

Muineach

Thirdfox wrote: »

Even with my D40 and 55-200 attached some people see me and ask "Am I going to be on the news?" Very disappointed to learn I'm just an amateur photographer (but at least they don't think I'm a paedophile!)

I had an odd experience, a local football club had a "walk" around Trim for some money, usual stuff, my nephews were in it so that's why I was there. So they left and I went around to where they were coming back in, now it was freezing cold, sleat spitting down so I had my camera (300mm) around my neck and was trying to cover it with my long coat, on top of that I wearing a black wool hat and was standing on a corner peeping around to see if they were coming (wind sweeping down that road).

Not too bad ?

Then I looked across the road, bloody bookies with a few people outside smoking, 1 goes back in,a few minutes later him and 3 others came out, watching me, either they thought I was taking pictures of who came out of the bookies or a paedophile, thank god the "walk" came back with a few minutes

5uspect

...a 300mm under a long coat you say?

Thirdfox

sheesh wrote: »

car manufacturers are responsible for road deaths drug, trafficking, unplanned pregancy etc.

I lol'd