Mark Williams-Thomas MA Director - WT Associates Ltd.

Mark Williams-Thomas MA

Director - WT Associates Ltd

Social Networking Sites

Exploited by Child Sex Offenders and Predatory Paedophiles

to Abuse Children

How can this Phenomenon be Policed? successfully ?

Internet Control

May 2006 -Vernon Coaker- Home Office expecting broadband ISPs to install web-filtering technology voluntarily by the end of next year (2007) but, if this deadline is not met, he would - he hinted strongly - consider legislation to force them to.

IWF List- but what if not on the list?

P2P networks -to find and download files located on other P2P users’ hard drive and to share files located on their own computer.

P2P -designed to accommodate large numbers of users, and capable of transferring vast amounts of data(images, videos, music)

What is Peer to Peer

Peer to Peer sites

Most popular networks

• BitTorrent via uTorrent and Azureus and the trackers & indexing sites

•Gnutella via Limewire

• eDonkey network via eMule

Grooming

Grooming

Andrew LINTERN

Andrew Lintern

•Oxford Scientist

•20,000 images

•10 years

•Abused a baby

•2 Profiles

Video

•Pro actively police Peer to Peer

•Pro-actively police social networking sites

•Create a national child sex offenders register

•Notify ISP, Social Networking sites of offenders names and details

•Create a national police task force to investigate online paedophiles

What needs to be done?

QUESTIONS?