Revised role and remit
Modernising role and remit
S46 Sex Offences Act 2003 and the accompanying MoU that came into force in May 2004, has presented an opportunity to update words and phrases in our current role and remit without detriment to the overall decisions taken during the role and remit review in 2003.
Suggestions for change are highlighted in blue.
Mission
To work in partnership with internet service providers, telecommunication companies, mobile operators, software providers, the police, government and the public to minimise the availability of online illegal content, particularly child abuse images.
Vision/strapline
Current = Combating Child Abuse Images Online
Opinion sought on = “Combating illegal images/content online”
Recommendation from FC = helping to combat child abuse images online
or
Helping to combat illegal content online especially child abuse images
or
nothing at all – abolish the strapline and concentrate on mission and role
Remit
To foster trust and confidence in the internet among current and future fixed and mobile internet users by
Proposed version
- operating a hotline to enable the public to report instances of potentially illegal child abuse images hosted anywhere in the world and criminally obscene adult and racist content hosted in the UK, for example via websites, newsgroups, mobile services or other on-line services.
Previous version
- by operating a hotline to enable the public to report instances of potential child abuse images, criminally obscene and criminally racist material found anywhere in the world on the Internet, for example via websites, newsgroups, mobiles or other on-line services.
No change
- promoting wider education and awareness of its functions and role and those of other key players such as government departments, law enforcement and consumer bodies.
To assist service providers to combat the abuse of their systems for the dissemination of criminal content by
Proposed version
- operating a notice and take down service to alert hosting service providers of criminal content found on their servers.
- recommending that ISPs should not carry certain newsgroups in accordance with policy guidelines adopted by the IWF Board.
· acting as a relevant authority under the Sexual Offences Act 2003
· or
· acting as a relevant authority in accordance with a Memorandum of Understanding concerning S46 Sex Offences Act 2003
Previous version
- by operating a notice and take down service to alert hosting service providers of criminal material found on their servers.
- by recommending that ISPs should not carry certain newsgroups in accordance with policy guidelines adopted by the IWF Board.
To assist law enforcement in the fight against criminal content on the internet by
- combating the dissemination on the internet of potentially illegal content i.e. abusive images of children and criminally obscene and racist content.
- passing details of reports relating to potential child abuse images hosted on servers outside the UK to the relevant national hotline or appropriate UK law enforcement agency.
- working closely with the police, lending its expertise to help trace the individuals responsible for such criminal activity online.
Previous version
- by combating the dissemination on the Internet of criminal content i.e. abusive images of children and potentially illegal adult and racist material.
- by passing details of reports relating to potential child abuse images residing on servers outside the UK to the relevant national hotline or appropriate UK law enforcement agency.
- by working closely with the police, lending its expertise to help trace the individuals responsible for such criminal activity online.
Page Created: Tue, November 2nd, 2004
Page Modified: Thu, November 4th, 2004
