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Last year, Microsoft, Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) teamed with detectives at Toronto's Child Exploitation Section, acclaimed for its work tracking down child pornographers on the Internet, to create a software program with the purpose of helping hunt down these child pornography Internet traffickers around the world.

Yesterday, a man was arrested in Ontario after he showed images of his sexual exploitation of a preschool girl on the Internet. He transmitted the live assault to an undercover detective in Toronto. Police managed to rescue the girl two hours later from a city in southwestern Ontario.

The detective, Krawczyk , who witnessed the live assault and wanted to reach the girl at that moment, said, "The message to all pedophiles, and people who want to sexually exploit children on the Internet is that we are on the Internet 24/7, we know where you are and we will find you."

Naturally, the police would not disclose any information about what programs they use and how they track the individuals down. If Microsoft had helped in any way, however, then I salute them.

Microsoft software may have helped police nab a child sex offender originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Fri, 03 Nov 2006 13:50:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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On a day when the Nasdaq shed 1.57%, Yahoo! Inc. stock's decline of 14 cents (0.13%), wasn't so bad.  Yahoo closed at $31.51.

The big news item in the industry today regarding Google introducing its online payment system, GBuy, as early as tomorrow, had little impact on Yahoo!
Similarly, Hindery's prediction that four out of the five portals, Yahoo among the five, will not survive, didn't affect the stock much either.

In fact, some of the focus today was turned to Yahoo's effort to combat child pornography online. Yahoo! Inc is among a group of Internet companies that includes AOL, Microsoft Corp, Earthlink and United Online. At first, the group plans "to pay $1 million for a new project of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that will develop systems meant to help identify child exploitation on the Internet and refer cases to law enforcement".

The next step is for the group to share electronic signatures of suspected images, allowing more images to be identified, thus referring the senders for prosecution.

Not by chance, today a House subcommittee began to look at how Internet service providers and social networking sites are used by child pornographers. Despite the above mentioned effort by the Internet companies, the companies object to some demands by the subcommittee to keep records and emails up to two years.

Google Inc was invited to join the cooperative, but so far hadn't.

Yahoo after the bell 6-27-06: Cooperating to combat child pornography originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Tue, 27 Jun 2006 18:07:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Can you say "publicity"? Evidently, that's all Jeffrey Toback, a member of the Nassau County (Long Island) legislature knows. He's suing Google for the children, claiming that the company's search engine promotes paid ads for child pornography companies [*cough* EVIL! *cough*].

Naturally, Google says that it is not "the largest and most efficient facilitator and distributor of child pornography in th world." And that this is just a publicity stunt. What? No, not really?

Mike from Techdirt weighs in, explaining that "the law here is extremely clear: a service provider is not directly responsible for what people do on their platform" and calling the lawsuit "ridiculous" and "a misunderstanding both of the law and how Google works." Ridiculous it may be, but Jeffrey Toback's name is on everyone's lips today. Investors evidently agree with Mike; the stock is up $1.50 in intraday trading, to $396.25.

Google sued 'for the children' in PR campaign by Long Island politico originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Fri, 05 May 2006 12:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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