An international policeman involved in online child protection has
slammed the domain name industry for not doing enough to protect
children online while attending the ICANN Silicon Valley San Francisco
meeting this week The Register reports.
One of Interpol's most senior policemen said the domain name industry and ICANN are "not doing enough to help law enforcement tackle child abuse imagery online."
"Garda Síochána's Michael Moran, on secondment to Interpol for the last five years as Coordinator of the Crimes Against Children team" gave two issues on which he was unhappy.
"First, he said that police lack a reliable way to quickly request that domains that lead to images of child abuse are suspended. Second, he said the accuracy of Whois records, which ostensibly contain the true name and contact information of domain name owners, needs to be more strictly enforced, so that abusers can be tracked down and arrested."
To read the report in The Register in full, see:
www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/17/child_abuse_cop_slams_icann/