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Apr 17, 2008 5:44 AM CDT

Global Action Urged on Kid Abuse Sites

Watchdog calls for international body to wipe out 3,000 sites

(Newser) - Britain's Internet Watch Foundation is calling for the creation of an international body to help stamp out internet sites profiting from images of child sex abuse, the BBC reports. There are nearly 3,000 such sites worldwide, a number that has stayed constant over the last three years as sites...

Global Child Sex Ring Busted

Mar 6, 2008 11:00 AM CST

Global Child Sex Ring Busted

Arrests made in US, UK and Australia after two-year probe

(Newser) - Detectives coordinated by the FBI have busted a global pedophile ring and rescued eight children in the UK, reports the Guardian. Some 22 arrests have been made in the US, Britain and Australia, and 400,000 images of child abuse seized. Police, moving in after a two-year investigation, said the...

Porn-Thieving Geek Squad Needs Spanking

OPINION

Feb 21, 2008 12:06 PM CST

Porn-Thieving Geek Squad Needs Spanking

Privacy invasion, and Best Buy's response, appalling, scribe says

(Newser) - No matter where you stand on pornography, Violet Blue writes in the San Francisco Chronicle, the theft of it from computers brought in for repair by Best Buy's Geek Squad is an appalling privacy violation—and the company's response isn't much better. After king Geek Robert Stephens brushed off a...

Porn Photos of High School Students Travel Far by Phone

Jan 25, 2008 5:57 PM CST

Porn Photos of High School Students Travel Far by Phone

Pa. community reels from cyber-exposure

(Newser) - Pornographic cell phone pictures of students have been spreading like wildfire at and beyond Pennsylvania’s Parkland High School, the Morning Call reports. The images, two separate pictures of undressed girls and another of a couple making love, have apparently circulated widely. ''My boyfriend, who's not even in high school...

Judge: Cops Can't Force Defendant to Tell Password

Dec 15, 2007 9:51 AM CST

Judge: Cops Can't Force Defendant to Tell Password

An accused child pornographer has the right to keep his laptop password, and images, private

(Newser) - In what could turn out to be a landmark decision on computer privacy and Fifth Amendment rights against self incrimination, a federal judge in Vermont has ruled that a man accused of transporting child pornography across the US border with Canada can’t be forced to turn over his laptop...

Child Porn Found in Home of Suicide DA

Nov 27, 2007 7:21 AM CST

Child Porn Found in Home of Suicide DA

Texas man shot self as NBC sex predator sting closed in

(Newser) - Texas investigators looking into the suicide of a former county district attorney found child porn in his home, reports the Dallas Morning News. He shot himself last year as a SWAT team closed in and a Dateline NBC camera crew covering internet predators waited outside. A search of laptops, a...

Voodoo Child Smugglers Busted in Netherlands

Oct 25, 2007 6:09 PM CDT

Voodoo Child Smugglers Busted in Netherlands

Young prostitutes took mystic vows

(Newser) - Dutch police have broken a child prostitution ring that used voodoo to control its young charges, authorities announced today. Authorities found missing Nigerian children prostituting themselves in France, Italy, and Spain, apparently obeying mystic vows given them by their kidnappers and voodoo shamans. Police have so far arrested dozens accused...

Federal Court Gives Porn
Biz a Break

Oct 25, 2007 12:53 AM CDT

Federal Court Gives Porn Biz a Break

Judge says law intended to thwart child porn is too broad, violates free speech

(Newser) - A federal appeals court threw a wrench today into the government’s efforts to stop child porn. The Cincinnati-based court struck down a 1998 law requiring porn producers to keep records of people depicted in their materials. The Justice Department argued the law helped authorities clamp down on kiddie porn,...

Porno Biz Unfazed by Neocons

Sep 19, 2007 7:28 PM CDT

Porno Biz Unfazed by Neocons

FBI focuses on extreme forms of porn, leaves $13B industry intact

(Newser) - Bush's vow to clamp down on porn has hardly dented the $13 billion industry, Reuters reports. Activists grumble that Bush hasn't followed in Reagan's footsteps and put distributors out of business - but pressing problems, like terrorism, have distracted the White House, and the FBI is prosecuting more extreme forms...