POLICE ASSOCIATION OF NOVA SCOTIA 109 Wired-Ed Child Exploitation Team This group of Wired-Ed instructors provides information about child exploitation online to other WiredSafety members, members of the general public, parents, law enforcement, educators and children. They also work with Outreach Teams to provide offline educational and awareness programs on the subject of online child exploitation. Information and Statistical Development Team This team reviews statistics collected on cases that WiredSafety has handled and sites that have been encountered. This allows WiredSafety to view trends and advise law enforcement, help policy-makers understand this crime, and demonstrate how molesters and child pornographers use the technology to cause more harm to children. This team also provides statistical data on trends and the state of cybercrimes against children, including statistics relative to child pornography sites, to educators, to victim groups and to governmental policy groups. Special Case Team This team works on special assignments with law enforcement groups to investigate child pornography rings and schemes, as well as locating and tracking child molesters who work online to lure children. This is the only team that acts undercover to flush out child molesters and child pornographers. This work is always done under the express direction of and in cooperation with law enforcement agencies that request WiredSafety’s help. Strategic Alliances Many ISPs and Internet Portals are aiding WiredSafety in their quest to shut down every child pornography/exploitation site on the Internet. Most of the CEOs contacted are more than willing to join and do their part. Some Statistics Of the sites reported to WiredSafety’s child pornography tip line, approximately 50% are determined by trained volunteers to consist of child pornography, while the remainder are determined to be teens over the age of consent (18 years), or virtual images not actionable in the applicable country. WiredSafety is not only keeping track of how many sites are reported, they are also keeping records of which country they are from, who is the site service provider (ISP), who hosts those sites, and even whether they are a .com or a .net site. WiredSafety is particularly interested in sites using merchant or credit card payment programs. With this type of information, the culprits can be found more easily. WiredSafety can also lobby to have certain web hosting sites shut down if they are found to have a high percentage of child pornography Web sites that use their service. Credit card providers have a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to their services being used by child pornographers at Web sites. Should it be discovered that certain billing service companies are providing merchant account services to child pornography sites even after being apprised of the fact that child pornography exists on those sites, these billing service companies will be investigated, as well, and charges will be pursued against those companies under existing criminal laws. Awareness Campaign - "Behind Every Picture There's Pain" (See front cover.) A wonderful advertising agency has kindly developed an awareness program to help raise public consciousness and stop the growth of child pornography online. WiredSafety is looking for publications to print the advertisements as part of this public service campaign. WiredSafety hopes to have these ads appear on television, in major magazines, on radio, and numerous other places. These advertisements will not only inform the public of the existence of such .atrocities, but also instruct people about what they can do to help cleanse the Internet of this filth. There will also be campaigns centered on cyberstalking, hacking, harassment and other dangers. Interested in joining and offering your help? Contact WiredSafety at http://www.wiredsafety.org/volunteer/index.html © Wired Kids, Inc. (...cont’d)
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