"Telenor and Save the Children have entered into a three-year partnership agreement. The purpose of the agreement is to prevent abuse of children over the Internet and to make the Internet and mobile phones safe for children and young users. This partnership involves a joint effort from Telenor and Save the Children in the struggle against the distribution of images and films depicting sexual exploitation of children."

"The European Parliament on Wednesday proposed creating a new .kid Internet domain name to help children navigate cyberspace safely."

"... The Free Speech Coalition is suing U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to prevent the Department of Justice from enforcing new regulations to U.S.C. 2257, dubbed "2257," which mandates producers verify the ages of models, actors and others appearing in sexually explicit content and keep thorough records on them, including address, photo identification and their legal names."

"Photos of children separated from their parents by Hurricane Katrina have been posted on a Web site by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in an attempt to reunite families."

"KORONADAL CITY -- Local officials here are planning to regulate the operations of Internet cafés in a bid to curb the growing number of young people who are being hooked to pornographic materials and the so-called cyber prostitution in the worldwide web."

"Prowling Internet pedophiles are just one concern experts raise about online social-networking sites such as MySpace.com, which attract hundreds of local teens."

"It frequently starts with a bad break-up. Then the e-mails and instant messages start or personal information shows up in an Internet chat room. Awful names are tossed around. Top 10 lists - everything from the ugliest in school to the fattest to the easiest - get posted online."

"A recent national survey reveals 54% of parents feel their ability to monitor and shelter their children from inappropriate material on the Internet is limited. So we asked investigators from the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division for tips on keeping kids safe."

"Laws in two states to shield children from objectionable e-mail are having a chilling effect on nearly everyone but the spammers they were intended for. The laws in Michigan and Utah create e-mail registries to prevent children from viewing adult-oriented messages. The laws, both barely a month old, threaten to disrupt businesses nationwide, marketers and legal experts say."

"Parental-control software makes sense in some households, but I see domestic surveillance as a last resort. Before you institute blanket home censorship and snooping on the family PC, give these less intrusive browse-control tools and techniques a try."

"According to the U.S. Justice Department, more incidents of online child pornography and child sexual exploitation are being identified for investigation than ever before... "Fortunately, a law that went into effect this month gives Foti and others in law enforcement a stronger ede (sic) in the fight against predators who use the Web to prey on children. It makes it a crime for those 18 or older to use a computer to contact someone under 18, or thought to be under 18, to have sex. Until the new law became effective, the state could only charge predators with attempting to solicit."

"When Whitman police Detective Stephen Drass opened a link to a Web site a concerned mother sent him, he was surprised to find profiles from Whitman youths who provided their real first and last names, addresses, photos and sexual preferences. While most of the kids were young teenagers, they claimed to be over the age of 18."

"Looking for a little extra spending money, two college-bound teenagers decided to sell a week of their time to the highest bidder on the Internet auction site eBay."

"POSTING photos of children on websites could become a crime - even if they appear to be wholesome family snaps. In a proposal with ramifications for schools, sports clubs, and families which make online "brag books" for friends and relatives, state and territory governments will combine to tighten the use of the internet to ensure predators cannot access internet images of children."

"POSTING unauthorised photos of children on the internet could be outlawed under options raised in a discussion paper. Releasing the paper, Victorian Attorney-General Rob Hulls called for a national strategy to combat the publication of unauthorised photos on the internet. The push follows recent incidents where photos were taken of Victorian school children at sporting events and then posted on the net, in some cases with links to sexually explicit websites."

"This month, Michigan launched a registry called Protect MI Child Registry designed to help Thompson and other parents stop spammers from sending inappropriate material to children younger than 18. State officials believe it's the nation's first such law. Beginning Monday, spammers must stop e-mailing children whose addresses are registered by the state if they're sending advertisements about pornography, tobacco, gambling, alcohol, illegal or prescription drugs, firearms or fireworks."