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CIDA Profiles Child Protection in Development and CPP Success

Submitted by CPP on February 10, 2012 - 16:21
“We know we can’t do it all. We’ll never arrest our way out of this problem so we have to work together: expand awareness, education and coordination. That’s what we do.”
 
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Breakup of International Child Porno Ring

Submitted by CPP on August 8, 2011 - 14:13

On August 3, 2011, 72 individuals were charged with participating in an international criminal network dedicated to sexually abusing children, and producing and disseminating child pornography throughout the world. These charges resulted from an extensive investigation led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HIS).

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Jamaican meeting to discuss protection of children from sexual exploitation

Submitted by CPP on July 18, 2011 - 15:17

Delegates from 11 Caricom Community (Caricom) states converged in the Jamaican capital, Kingston, earlier this month for a regional meeting on the protection of children from commercial sexual exploitation.

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Tweeting Change: Celebrating Social Media Day 2011

Submitted by CPP on June 30, 2011 - 12:56

Today, June 30, is Social Media Day! It is time to reflect on and celebrate the role that social media plays in our lives. Social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have been making big waves on and offline during the past few years. Hundreds of millions of people around the world have been using these sites to stay connected to their friends and families and to follow entertainment figures, news organizations, businesses and NGOs in their daily activities. In some countries, like the United States, social networking sites now dominate people’s Internet use.

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New mobile phone app identifies predatory adults posing as children

Submitted by CPP on February 24, 2011 - 13:37

The idea your child may be being secretly groomed on the internet by a predatory paedophile is every parent’s worst nightmare.

But now scientists have developed a new mobile phone application which is designed to identify adults posing as children.
 
They say the software - called Child Defence - enables children to scan webchat on their mobile phones to check the age of people they are messaging.

 

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What is Photo DNA?

Submitted by CPP on January 11, 2011 - 14:08

Microsoft has already come up with a solution to track down and eventually remove child pornography in cyberspace.
 

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Microsoft and Public Safety Partners to Tackle Emerging Public Safety Trends

Submitted by CPP on January 5, 2011 - 13:36

Today, January 6, 2011, at the Worldwide Public Safety Symposium, in Redmond, Washington, USA, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer outlined the ways that the company’s innovative technology and vast partner ecosystem will tackle the 21st century’s four core emerging public safety technology trends: cloud-based solutions, cybersecurity, unified communications and social media in public safety. This includes news that Microsoft will begin exploring how to support its Child Exploitation Tracking System (CETS) in the cloud.
 

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Global Partners Renew Commitment to CPP

Submitted by suzanne on October 26, 2010 - 13:53

CPP's Global Partners (UNICEF, Plan, CIDA, IICRD, Royal Canadian Mounted Police NCECC with regrets from Microsoft) and Thai and Brazil Advisors came together in Ottawa yesterday to review their contributions to CPP and renew their commitment to the Partnership. 
 
"We won't arrest our way out of this problem" said the RCMP NCECC representative, "so it is good we work together on prevention and other strategies to protect children." 
 

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Fueling Offline Dialogue for Online Decisions

Submitted by CPP on October 24, 2010 - 07:06

Fueling Offline Dialogue for Online Decisions: An Update from the Because I am a Girl 2010 Technical Roundtable, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
 

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