Internet Companies Pledge Child Porn Crackdown
Declan McCullagh writes on C|Net News:
In an attempt to forestall potentially intrusive new federal laws, a coalition of Internet companies plan to announce on Tuesday a campaign against child pornography that they say will tip off police to illegal images.More here.
The Internet companies, AOL, EarthLink, Microsoft, United Online and Yahoo, are pledging $1 million in cash and technical assistance to develop technology that can "detect and disrupt the distribution of known images of child exploitation" on the Internet. The coalition's effort will take place under the auspices of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.
The expected announcement comes just hours before the beginning of a two-day U.S. House of Representatives hearing that will explore enacting new laws to require Internet providers to store records on what Americans are doing online, a concept called data retention.
posted by Fergie @ 6/26/2006 10:02:00 PM
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