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ISPs **** to join chi.ld porn crackdown
Internet service providers (ISPs) will face fines of up to $55,000 if they can be used to access chi.ld pornography and do not refer the information to the police.
Justice Minister Chris Ellison said today ISPs and internet content hosts (ICHs) would have strict obligations to report online chi.ld pornography to the Australian Federal Police from March 1.
"It cannot be emphasised enough that behind every horrid piece of chi.ld pornography is a tragic case of an abused defenceless chi.l.d, somewhere in the world," Senator Ellison said.
Under the new laws, an ISP or ICH will face penalties of $11,000 for the individual and $55,000 for body corporates if they are made aware that their service can be used to access material that they have reasonable grounds to believe is **** pornography or chi.ld abuse material and they do not refer details of that material to the AFP within a reasonable time.
It will also be a federal offence, carrying a penalty of 10 years' jail, for a person to use the internet to access, transmit or make available chi.ld pornography or chi.ld abuse material.
This is on top of the current state and territory penalties.
Senator Ellison said it was hoped that internet providers would work closely with the AFP's online chi.ld exploitation team and the Australian High Tech Crime Centre to crack down on chi.ld exploitation and p.e.d.ophile networks.
The AFP last month announced it was also taking part in an international task force to prevent online chi.ld abuse.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
TV PROGRAM TRANSCRIPT
LOCATION:
http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2006/s1784212.htm
Broadcast: 08/11/2006
Internet **** pornography a growing problem
Reporter: Peter McCutcheon
KERRY O'BRIEN: For many people, the Internet of course has created an exciting new world of information and communication but as we've increasingly come to know, it has its very definite dark side. Broadband and high-speed Internet connections have helped a global market in images of abused ****ren. Interpol now has a database of a staggering 200,000 images and only a fraction of these ****ren have been identified. If anything, the problem is only getting worse, as Peter McCutcheon reports.
ARNOLD BELL: You are trudging through the worst type of material that I've ever seen in 20 years in law enforcement. Your heart goes out for these **** and you want to help them now and a lot of times you just don't have the ability to reach in and grab that kid and pull them out of that situation.
PETER MCCUTCHEON: Arnold Bell has seen the stuff of nightmares. As chief of the FBI's Innocent Images unit, he's shocked to see the sheer number of **** abuse images on the Internet.
ARNOLD BELL: Our unit started in 1995 and we've seen a 2,000 per cent increase pretty much across the board.
PETER MCCUTCHEON: Arnold Bell and nearly 100 other law enforcement officials with similar experiences met in Brisbane recently to discuss ways of tackling the dark side of the Internet. It's a shadow that is growing longer.
ROSS BARNETT, TASK FORCE ARGOS: The Internet just makes it so easy for people who have that interest to be able to access that material, share it, trade it and keep it.
JULIE INMAN, MICROSOFT ASIA PACIFIC: It's such an enormous problem. It's a multi-billion-dollar industry.
PETER MCCUTCHEON: Every year the Internet is getting faster and faster. Although that may be great news for consumers, it also opens up new opportunities for dealers in sordid images. One US agency reported a 15-fold increase in reports of **** pornography since 2001.
PETER MCCUTCHEON: **** pornography appears to have grown exponentially over the past decade; why?
ARNOLD BELL: I think a lot to do with the evolution of the technology; I think there's much greater access to broadband and high speed Internet which allows for the transmission of huge amounts of data. There's also the connectivity that the Internet allows and allows for perpetrators, if you will, to find like-minded people and to network with each other and to trade their collections and discuss their trade craft.
PETER MCCUTCHEON: One of the biggest challenges for law enforcement agencies is the global nature of the industry. No matter how strict the laws are in the developed world, countries like Cambodia are often targeted by dealers in **** pornography and images are later sold to customers in countries like Australia.
JULIE INMAN: There are an estimated 33,000 **** sex workers in Cambodia and because AIDS has become a bit of an epidemic there are thousands of orphans who are very, very vulnerable to being trafficked or **** into prostitution.
PETER MCCUTCHEON: The American software giant Microsoft recently joined forces with the British Government to co sponsor a training conference for Cambodian police.
JULIE INMAN: We believe we have a strong corporate responsibility to keeping the Internet safe.
PETER WATSON, MICROSOFT AUSTRALIA: There's a focus, that most of the people are using our products out there. But we definitely see this as an ecosystem issue. All players within the IT industry need to take some responsibility for what is going on.
SCHOOLBOY: You need to think about the real world and what could happen and, yeah, you've got to think twice before doing everything.
PETER MCCUTCHEON: Microsoft also teamed up with the Australian Federal Police and a primary school in Melbourne recently to launch an awareness campaign for ****ren using the Internet. And while police in Australia have had some success in catching paedophiles who pose as ****ren online, the international effort is trying to take out the administrators of websites that display images of exploited ****ren. One disturbing trend is the growing involvement of organised crime.
ARNOLD BELL: We see organised crime groups that are based abroad where they traditionally dealt in drugs or guns or whatever; they are now taking to this media because there's a big market out there, there is a lot of money and in some places the laws don't exist to address it, so there are certain parts of the world where you have easy access to ****. The dollar goes a long way.
PETER MCCUTCHEON: The US Centre for Missing and Exploited ****ren gave an insight into the size of the industry in a testimony before a Senate committee in September. Investigators uncovered one website with 70,000 customers, all paying nearly $30 a month for graphic images of ****ren being abused.
GUILLERMO GALARZA: We are getting more victims and one victim, there is going to be another victim and another victim and another victim. So it may be one person, but multiple victims.
PETER MCCUTCHEON: If there's any good news to come out of international conferences like this one, it's that law enforcement agencies from around the world are getting better at working together. Australia next year is to join the US, Canada, Indonesia and Cambodia in a new **** exploitation tracking system or CETS, developed by Microsoft and the Toronto police service.
PETER WATSON: What it really is is around how can law enforcement agencies share information on investigations that they are doing? One of the biggest issues in this area of online **** pornography and also a lot of the other computer crimes that we see is they don't really know any jurisdictional boundaries.
PETER MCCUTCHEON: Tragically, many perpetrators of **** abuse images have expertise in computer technology and many will continue to remain elusive.
ARNOLD BELL: You see **** grow up in situations where you see them the first time, they are four and three years later they are seven and you are watching them grow up being abused and you are trying to do the best you can to find these ****, but it is frustrating and heartbreaking to see this kind of stuff happen.
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