Canada's biggest Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have joined hands with Cybertip.ca, the country's child sexual exploitation tipline, to launch a new voluntary initiative to help in the battle against online child sexual abuse.
The new initiative, named 'Project Cleanfeed Canada', is the latest contribution from the multi-stakeholder Canadian Coalition against Internet Child Exploitation (C-CAICE). The effort is intended to make the Internet safer for Canadians and their families, by reducing chances of their accidentally coming across images of child sexual exploitation on the Internet.
The participating ISPs, which so far include Bell Aliant, Bell Canada, MTS Allstream, Rogers, SaskTel, Shaw Communications, TELUS, and Videotron, will install sophisticated new filters designed to protect their customers from inadvertently visiting foreign Web sites that contain images of children being sexually abused, and that are beyond the jurisdiction of Canadian legal authorities.
Based on its widely recognized expertise in this area, Cybertip.ca will establish a list of the sites to be filtered, which will be incorporated automatically into the ISPs' filters. But the ISPs will have no involvement in compiling the Cybertip.ca list.
Moreover, Cybertip.ca and the ISPs will continue to work directly with Canadian law enforcement authorities that will investigate and take appropriate action in cases where a Canadian Web site contains child sexual exploitation images.
On this occasion, Lianna McDonald, Executive Director of Cybertip.ca and Chair of the C-CAICE Steering Committee, said, "Those of us active in fighting online child sexual exploitation understand that we need to fight this battle on many fronts and at many levels. 'Project Cleanfeed Canada' will make an important contribution to child protection by reducing accidental access by Canadians to child abuse images online."
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