Watchdog International NetClean solution to be adopted by Talk Internet

One thing that most users are willing to accept is that access to images of child abuse on the internet should be blocked and in order to avoid the involvement of government, which could end with far more material than necessary being block, many broadband providers worldwide are rushing to implement their own filtering systems.

When the IWF placed a page from Wikipedia onto the list of possible abuse images back in December 2008 the blocking of images involving child abuse in the UK hit the headlines.

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The recent announcement of the adoption of the Watchdog International NetClean WhiteBox Solution by ISP, Talk Internet in order to handle its website filtering, the addition of a webpage that will explain why a particular webpage is no longer available has been seen as a positive result of the Wikipedia incident and will help if such an incident should re-occur. This will show that there is not a fault with the webpage but that it has an active block in place, which should make things a little clearer to the service providers’ customers.

The chairman of the Children’s Charities’ Coalition for Internet Safety, John Carr said “Dealing with CSAI (Child Sexual Abuse Images) on the Internet is not an optional extra. It’s part of the cost of doing business for a modern ISP. Governments round the world know that, technically, access to CSAI can be blocked and can be blocked inexpensively. If ISPs want Governments to back off, and allow self-regulation of the Internet a chance to work, then dealing with online CSAI is surely the acid test.”

Currently this solution has been adopted by TeliaSonera International and has been used in New Zealand, although the first provider in the UK to use this solution will be Talk International. Sweden saw tests carried out by SUNET over a 10Gbps network with 350 000 user supported. The fact that the IWF list and its implementation are all performed by Watchdog International will also be a great advantage for providers.