Archive for the 'Protecting Children' Category

• 3.5.08 ISP Filtering posted in Blockpage.com, Filtering Technology, Protecting Children

  After reading this great enumeration of various efforts to block accidental access to images of child sexual abuse I updated updated blockpage.com to include the blockpages from Sweden, Switzerland and Denmark.
  This document notes many of the unintended consequences of filtering, especially overblocking, and it challenges the wisdom of making the blocking [...]

• 2.19.08 Finland Filtering posted in Blockpage.com, Protecting Children

  Finland’s filtering system, put in place to block access to images of child abuse (child pornography) is blocking sites that do not match this criteria. In addition to blocking an anti-censorship activism site, the filtering seems to be significantly overblocking. EFFi reports:
  The censorship supposedly applies only to foreign web sites that are used to [...]

• 10.10.07 Child Protection Online posted in Privacy, Protecting Children

  The Privacy Commission’s blog has an interesting post about the protection of children online. The context is in terms of privacy and not the usual implementation of filtering technologies.

  There are increasingly deep levels of intimacy between marketers and children – there’s a thin line between content and commerce
  All the major children’s playsites comply with data [...]

• 2.14.07 Mission Creep posted in Filtering Technology, Free Expression, Protecting Children

  Mission Creep:
  Regardless of the initial reason for implementing Internet filtering, there is increasing pressure to expand its use once the filtering infrastructure is in place.
  Norway has been filtering child abuse websites since October 2004. The system operates similarly to others (Canada, UK, Sweden) where people can report illegal websites, the the websites are reviewed [...]

• 1.22.07 CleanFeed Canada posted in Filtering Technology, Free Expression, Protecting Children

  There is now an FAQ on CleanFeed Canada as well as information on the appeal process.