UK Group Aims to Thwart Child Predators Online

April 24th, 2006

Microsof and AOL on Monday joined forces with the United Kingdom’s new Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Center. The alliance could see photographs of convicted pedophiles posted on the Internet .

The organization will bring together law enforcement officers, specialists from children’s charities and industry to focus on high-risk, high-impact offenders.

Specifically, the CEOP Center will deliver a dedicated 24/7 online resource for reporting instances of online child sex abuse and systems to track sex offenders and to disseminate intelligence globally, resulting in victim identification and the direction of those victims toward sources of support.

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