UK ‘climbs down’ over sex offenders plan
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- The UK Home Office, which has just had its hopes of creating a vast Big Brother data base dashed, has also had its plans to restrict registered sex offenders from using the net similarly thwarted.
In April the UK government said a new law would have applied to more than 30,000 sex offenders on the register, says the Guardian, going in failure to comply “would have carried up to five years’ imprisonment”.
However, the Home Office has been “forced to climb down amid concerns that the plan is incompatible with the right to privacy,” says the story, continuing »»»
There are fears that any move by the police to share the personal details and email addresses of registered sex offenders with the social networking sites would be open to legal challenges. The decision to shelve the new law followed a ruling by the Court of Appeal earlier this year.
But the government hasn’t given up.
“We’re seeking leave to appeal this decision to the Supreme Court,” the Guardian has a Home Office spokesman stating.
“Concerns about paedophiles using networking sites to approach children are growing,” says the story, adding:
“In its annual report, the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre noted there had been a marked increase in the use of webcams linked to instant messaging technology to incite a child to perform or to witness a sexual act.”
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November 10th, 2009 at 6:57 pm
There is a pedophile city in the US, so there will be social networks for pedophiles, if there is a demand.