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CTIA Supporting National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
Nov 22, 2008 (10Meters.com via COMTEX) --
CTIA-The Wireless Association announced it has joined forces with the
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) to keep child
pornography off of wireless networks.
To accomplish this goal, CTIA and representatives from the wireless
industry have created the Wireless Child Safety Task Force, whose
mission is to help keep wireless devices and services free of child
pornography. As a matter of course, wireless companies will continue to
prohibit websites believed to contain child pornography from being
hosted on their servers.
Relying on the considerable expertise of both CTIA member companies and
NCMEC, the Task Force will work to identify, review and support actions
to further deter child pornography on wireless networks and services.
This will include the exploration of solutions that can be lawfully
executed while safeguarding consumer privacy.
"The wireless industry will work diligently to keep this illegal
content off its networks," said CTIA President and CEO Steve Largent.
"We are proud to partner with the nation's leading child-protection
organization in this fight against an insidious criminal activity and
enterprise. We greatly value our relationship with NCMEC and look
forward to working with them as they put their exceptional knowledge,
advice and expertise to work for America's 265 million wireless
subscribers."
"Child pornography is not protected speech, it is child sexual abuse.
Those who produce it, distribute it and even possess it commit a crime.
Yet, with the advent of the Internet, child pornography has exploded.
That is why we are so grateful for the leadership and vigilance of
CTIA-The Wireless Association and the entire wireless industry. NCMEC
and the wireless industry have worked together to reunite missing
children with their families. Today, we take our next bold step
together to keep every child safer," said NCMEC President and CEO Ernie
Allen.
Through the efforts of the Task Force, the wireless industry will
expand its existing partnership with NCMEC. For more than three years,
The Wireless Foundation has teamed with NCMEC and the U.S. Department
of Justice to administer the Wireless AMBER Alerts program.
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