CTO Conference on Cybersecurity17-18 June, 2010London

John Carr Children’s Charities’ Coalition on Internet Safety

www.chis.org.uk

• “Child abuse images” is now the preferred term in a number of countries, rather than “child pornography”, but the latter remains in widespread use because it is built into national laws.

• “Internet” includes access via any internet enabled device e.g. PCs, laptops, mobile phones, games consoles, PDAs

The arrival of the internet had a major impact

• 1995 - Interpol knew of 4,000 images globally• 2009 - 1,000,000 unique images being circulated and re-

circulated, being viewed and downloaded billions of times

• 1995 - Greater Manchester police seized 12 pictures in total • 2009 - Arthur Leland Sayler arrested in Mexico in possession

of 4 million images

• Overlap with grooming and bullying

International Centre for Missing & Exploited ChildrenChild Pornography: Model Legislation & Global Review6th Edition

looked at the legal frameworks for dealing with child pornography in 196 countries.

• Legislation specific to child pornography

• Child pornography defined

• Computer facilitated offences

• Simple possession outlawed

• ISP reporting

• Excluding mandatory ISP reporting, only 34 countries were found to have a framework of laws “deemed sufficient to combat child pornography offenses”

• Including mandatory ISP reporting, the number of countries with an adequate framework of laws rose to 42

• A significant number of countries scored 2 or 3 out of 5

• The following Commonwealth countries scored 0 out of 5

Commonwealth Countries scoring 0

Antigua & BarbudaBahamasBangladeshBelizeCameroonDominicaFijiGhanaGrenadaGuyanaLesothoMalawiMalaysiaMaldivesMozambique

NamibiaNauruNigeriaPakistanRwandaSt Kitts & NevisSt LuciaSt Vincent & the GrenadinesSierra LeoneSingaporeSwazilandTrinidad & TobagoUgandaZambia

Establish a working group to take forward an initiative to encourage the adoption of a legal framework to deal with online child abuse images and create a hotline to receive reports. Seek the engagement of ICMEC.

The programme might focus initially or in particular on helping countries currently scoring 0 out of 5 on the ICMEC matrix but the wider objective should be to get all Commonwealth countries up to 4 out of 5 or 5 out of 5.

Consider incorporating a reference to pseudo child abuse images into the legal definition to be used.

Consider developing a wider range of online child protection measures e.g. in relation to outlawing grooming.

Consider developing education and awareness raising initiatives for parents, teachers and children.