Parents and children’s charities fear that the new generation of mobile video phones will increase the issue of internet child abuse even worse.

The Irish government, in collaboration with the mobile phone industry, is to adopt a series of measures to increase safety mechanisms and protect minors:
– a register of 3G mobile phones (and thus, their users) capable of carrying video clips.
– a code of practice: the mobile phone industry commits to provide parental access to minors’ accounts, to set up call lines for the reporting of unsolicited commercial communications, to advise customers to communicate suspected cases of child pornography, and to assist their clients in reporting malicious communications.
– the world’s first mobile content-filtering trials, filtering out known blacklisted URL Web addresses and trying to recognize images transmitted over the network via indicators such as skin tones and the relative position of people in pictures to establish whether it may be classed as inappropriate.

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