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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?


What is Peer to Peer

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)
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
Andrew LINTERN Lintern
•Oxford Scientist

•20,000 images

•10 years

•Abused a baby

•2 Profiles
Video
What needs to be done?
•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
QUESTIONS?

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