Paedophiles ‘disguise’ child abuse pages as legit websites

“Child abusers are latching onto new methods to distribute paedophilic material online, according to an annual report by the Internet Watch Foundation.”

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Operation Ore was based on flawed evidence from the start

“Britain’s biggest ever computer crime investigation, Operation Ore, was flawed by a catalogue of ‘discrepancies, errors and uncertainties’, disclosed reports of two national police conferences seen by The Register reveal.”

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Overzealous anti-paedo scheme not dead yet

“Volunteers and those working with children will only need to undergo intrusive vetting of their private lives in future if they work in ‘sensitive posts’ or ‘have intensive contact with children or vulnerable people’.”

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Operation Ore decision a ‘serious miscarriage of justice’ – lawyer

“The solicitor who brought the Operation Ore appeal that was finally rejected today has questioned whether the British courts had the expertise to consider deeply technical cases.”

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Judges reject Operation Ore appeal

“The Court of Appeal has rejected claims that some individuals prosecuted under Operation Ore for incitement to distribute indecent photographs were themselves the victims of credit card fraud.”

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CEOP chief accuses UK.gov of putting kids at risk

“Britain’s most senior anti-paedophile policeman, who resigned last week in a row with the Home Secretary over the future of his organisation, has told MPs he quit because a proposed new structure will put children at risk.”

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Internet firms welcome CEOP chief’s exit

“Jim Gamble’s resignation as Britain’s most senior child protection policeman has today been welcomed by a broad coalition of internet firms, who said they had been alienated by his aggressive approach.”

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UK head of online child protection resigns

“Jim Gamble, head of the UK’s Child Exploitation Online Protection Unit (CEOP), has resigned in a row over the supposed independence of his fiefdom.”

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Sex, lies, and botnets: the saga of Perverted Justice

“A computer programmer has been convicted of unleashing crippling attacks on rollingstone.com and other websites after they published a humiliating account of him engaging in an adulterous online affair with a fictitious woman.”

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Academics challenge moral consensus on sex and the net

“A moral panic around childhood sexualisation and the dangers of the internet is closing down important channels of debate and making the internet a more dangerous place for adults and young people alike.”

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