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Police authorities and search engines forms alliance to beat child pornographySwedish Picsearch limits the risk of finding child pornography on the Internet July 13, 2007; 12:03 AM STOCKHOLM, Sweden, July 12, 2007 - It was announced today
that Picsearch will be the first search engine to form an alliance with police
authorities with an aim to decrease the sexual exploitation of children around
the world. The police authorities will frequently provide Picsearch and other
selected search engines with a list of identified websites with commercial
child pornography. All indexed pages matching the list from the police will
deleted from the searchable databases, decreasing the risk for end-users to
find child pornography. Stefan Kronqvist, Head of IT Crime Section of the Swedish
National Criminal Police, says, “By incorporating the list of child pornography
websites within the Picsearch search services, which contain over 1.7 billion
images, we can prevent the user from finding images of abused children. This
will lead to a decrease in the number of new visitors on child pornography
websites. Search engines are the most popular and the most powerful
tools for Internet users to find information and entertainment online. Most
people have online access today and among young people the PC is considered to
be more important than the TV (eMarketer July 2007). Robert Risberg, CEO at Picsearch, says: - We believe that
every search engine has a responsibility to limit the ability to find child
pornography. We invite all our colleagues within the search industry to join
us. National police authorities in many countries have for
the past couple of years backed a voluntary cooperation with local Internet
providers in which the police block the access to a number of known sites with
commercial child pornography. The new cooperation between the police
authorities and search engines will expand the effectiveness dramatically.
Another major improvement is that the work done by the police in About Picsearch About the IT section of the Swedish Criminal Police The IT section of the Swedish Criminal Police focuses on
investigations involving IT criminality. The section also develops methods for
securing evidence in IT investigations. An important part of the IT section is
the Child protection team whose main objective is to protect children from sexual
abuse and sexual exploitation. The cooperation with search engines is a part of
the team's effort to stop recruitment of new criminals of child pornography. For more information please contact: Carl Sarnstrand, Communications Manager at Picsearch Tel: +46 73 204 14 79 E-mail: [email protected] Information from the Swedish Criminal Police. http://www.polisen.se/inter/util%5Cnodeid=21434&pageversion=1.jsp?articleid=9581108
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