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MNOs across Europe are teaming up in the battle against child pornography being disributed via the mobile internet. The GSMA is launching the (not particularly snappily-named) “Mobile Alliance against Child Sexual Abuse Content” – which is made up of most of the major OpCo groups.
The group will use certain procedures to remove content from their networks, and also block access to websites containing inappropriate media. Whilst the group pointed out that the vast majority of content is consumed via conventional connections, with the advent of “mobile broadband” (in all it’s guises), measures need to be in place to deal with a potentially growing issue.
Comment: I think this is a great step in the war against this kind of sick material – and timely given a recent story I read about child abusers moving toward carrying their material around on their mobiles to avoid detection. Whatever can be done to avert this terrible abuse, and subsequent distribution of material, has my full backing.
[Via: The Register]
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