2009/1/8 geni <[email protected]>: > 2009/1/8 Andrew Gray <[email protected]>: >> 2009/1/8 Owen Blacker <[email protected]>: >> >>> I don't suppose anyone has any evidence that the IWF definitely contacted a >>> specific police force, do they? :o) >> >> It's interesting - we always seem to have assumed the Met, but a quick >> search suggests this isn't publicly stated anywhere, and other police >> forces talk vaguely of cooperating with them as well. >> >> It might be rewarding to dig through newspaper archives of the last >> few years to see what's been written about the way they work. > > They were formed due to chief inspector Stephen French of the > Metropolitan Police explaining to the ISPs what would happen if they > didn't do something. > > In terms of the way they works see this mailing list: > > http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/pipermail/ukcrypto/2008-December/thread.html#85788 > the subject being "cleanfeed and wikipedia". Lot to read but it gives > some idea of the history of the IWF and cleenfeed (which was not > initially an IWF project). > > > -- > geni > highlights:
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/pipermail/ukcrypto/2008-December/085830.html http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/pipermail/ukcrypto/2008-December/085840.html http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/pipermail/ukcrypto/2008-December/085903.html http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/pipermail/ukcrypto/2008-December/086192.html http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/pipermail/ukcrypto/2008-December/085917.html http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/pipermail/ukcrypto/2008-December/085821.html <--some info on the audit http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/pipermail/ukcrypto/2008-December/086026.html <--suggests the body they consulted with was CEOP which may be FOIA proof. http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/pipermail/ukcrypto/2008-December/085887.html <-some info on their board politics http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/pipermail/ukcrypto/2008-December/085975.html Some info on why the IWF are allowed to view the stuff: http://www.cps.gov.uk/Publications/docs/mousexoffences.pdf -- geni _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l
