Internet: Standards
Hugo Swire MP: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when her Department first asked the British Standards Institution to produce a kite mark for internet filters. [188835]
Vernon Coaker MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Crime Reduction, Home Office: The BSI kitemark project arose from the Home Secretary’s taskforce on Online Child Protection and is a joint Home Office and Ofcom initiative. The British Standards Institution (BSI) was first approached in October 2004 to produce publicly available specification for rating filtering and monitoring software.
Mr. Swire: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when she expects the good practice guidance for social networking and user interactive services to be published; and what discussions she has had with the multi-stakeholder project group working on this. [190224]
Mr. Coaker: The Home Office is actively considering dates, this will be confirmed in the near future.
The project group has had active support from Home Office Ministers throughout its development.
Source: Hansard 4 March http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200708/cmhansrd/cm080304/text/80304w0013.htm#08030488000098
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