Re: Internet Watch Foundation now investigate site visitors

Webmanager_CritEst wrote:
On Mar 20, 10:47 pm, Dissenter <m...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:12:07 -0700 (PDT), Webmanager_CritEst

<webmana...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mar 20, 10:00 pm, Brown Cat <br...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:37:26 +0000, Airmax wrote:
Kevin Shutler was tracked down after an internet watchdog gave police a
list of subscribers to a website depicting girl models aged 13 and 14.
I thought IWF only compiled a list of indecent websites? How do they
know who the subscribers are?
You thought wrongly.
So how do they do it? And what do they mean by 'subscribed'? Paid by
credit card? Subscription lists can only be revealed if a site is
busted.

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Dissenter

There are many information feeds to the IWF.

WM

I thought the IWF had only a small amount of staff. This is the sort of thing that would be passed on to CEOP to investigate. It is not in the remit of the IWF to act in this manner - their remit extends to making a judgement on whether a site is potentially illegal but surely any investigative work after that must be handled by the proper authorities, especially the CEOP. The IWF site even has a map detailing what happens when a report is made and what I have outlined above is more or less what is detailed in the map.

There's something about the original story that gives it an air of inaccuracy.

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Robbie
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