CAI Database recommendations
Agenda item 10
CAI database
Recommendations from the Working Group
1 Introduction
1.1 Funding Council and Board have given full consideration to making the CAI database more widely available on two previous occasions; at their meetings in October 2004 and January 2005.
1.2 Funding Council and Board supported the broad principles outlined in the paper considered at their January meetings and on 25 January 2005, Board concluded that the CAI database working group should be invited to reconvene and to give further consideration to some specific issues. The working group met on 3 March and a copy of the minutes from that meeting has been circulated to all Funding Council and Board members.
2 Recommendations
2.1 Following a further meeting, Funding Council and Board are invited to approve the following revised recommendations from the working group:
a) The CAI list is made available to all members free of charge except where their core business is as a vendor of filtering products;
b) An annual licence fee of £5,000 is charged to non-members except where their core business is as a vendor of filtering products;
c) Where members are vendors of filtering products and they are using the CAI list, a unit charge will be made;
d) Where non-members are vendors of filtering products and they are using the CAI list, a unit charge will be made in addition to the flat licence fee of £5,000;
e) The unit charge will be set at a level which recovers appropriate additional costs and an illustrative charge of 1p per user per annum has been applied (see appendix 1);
f) For vendors of filtering products, where the number of users or purchasers cannot be easily counted, a provisional flat fee will be agreed and in the case of non-members this will be in addition to the annual licence fee of £5,000;
g) Where some uncertainty remains on whether a company sells filtering products as its core business, or there is difficulty in agreeing an appropriate provisional fee, the matter will be considered by the IWF Board.
h) An appropriate process of due diligence will be developed and approved by Board and this will be applied where a non-member enters into discussions to use the CAI database;
i) The executive will continue to investigate further enhancements to the security procedures at the point of data receipt by user companies;
j) Initially, the recommendations will be subject to a 6-monthly review and thereafter an annually.
The following recommendations from the working group were supported at previous Funding Council and Board meetings and are still relevant to the above revised recommendations:
k) Where the CAI data is incorporated into another database, there will only be the option to either include ALL the data or none at all. There will be no option to select certain data under differing criteria.
Supported, subject to opt out by law enforcement and relevant and authorised bodies under section 46 of SOA.
l) Members can sub-license the agreement to wholly owned or part-owned companies of theirs.
Supported.
m) Members are allowed to sub-license the agreement to 3rd party companies that are providing managed services to the member that require access to the data, providing it is used only for that member. Terms of use will need to be replicated in the service agreements between the member and service company.
Supported, see conclusion on sub-licensing above.
n) The IWF agree to provide on a reciprocal basis the CAI list free of charge to hotlines affiliated to INHOPE who can consider the entire list of URLs by the application of their own laws.
Supported.
o) Members with international holdings will be licensed to utilise the list in territories outside of the UK on the understanding that members take appropriate measures not to infringe legal systems in other countries.
Supported subject to provisos on international aspects.
p) Where the CAI database is incorporated into another larger database, the IWF data must be obscured so it cannot be reverse engineered nor must it be able to be searched and read as individual files.
Supported
q) The IWF will provide the data to national police forces throughout the world and organisations that are working closely or are affiliated to national police forces throughout the world to assist in the delivery of better tools for the investigation of individuals engaged in the possession and distribution of child abuse images.
Supported
Appendix 1 – draft business model
Draft unit cost business model
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IWF membership |
Licence |
Units |
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Band 1 |
Total units |
Grand Total |
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Licence 1 |
Member Filtering vendor |
20,000 |
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3,000,000 |
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£30,000.00 |
£30,000.00 |
£50,000.00 |
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Licence 2 |
Member Filtering vendor |
5,000 |
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1,100,000 |
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£11,000.00 |
£11,000.00 |
£16,000.00 |
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Licence 3 |
Member Filtering vendor |
5000 |
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90,000 |
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£900.00 |
£900.00 |
£5,900.00 |
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Licence 4 |
Member non filtering vendor |
£5000 |
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N/A |
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£5,000.00 |
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Licence 4 |
Non member |
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£5,000 |
N/A |
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£5,000.00 |
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Licence 5 |
Non member/filtering vendor |
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£5,000 |
110,000 |
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£1,100.00 |
£1,100.00 |
£6,100.00 |
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£88,000.00 |
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Units |
Charge |
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License Fee |
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non members |
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£ 5,000.00 |
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1 - 10m |
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Band 1 |
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£0.01 |
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Notes:
a) The above model is based upon 1p per user per annum.
b) Where unit charges cannot be calculated, client company & IWF will make an estimate of use that both parties agree on. This will form the basis of the unit charge | ||||||||
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