SafeWeb www'safeweb'org'cy: The hotline service of Cyprus

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SafeWeb (www.safeweb.org.cy) The hotline
service of Cyprus

• Michalis Ellinas
• SafeWeb Support Group
• University of Cyprus

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Overview

• SafeWeb Mission statement
• Safer Internet Programme
• Legislative Framework
• SafeWeb In depth
• National Cooperation
• Contribution to international networks
• Infrastructure
• Operational Procedures
• Achievements
• Challenges / Targets

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Overview

• SafeWeb Mission statement
• Safer Internet Programme
• Legislative Framework
• SafeWeb In depth
• National Cooperation
• Contribution to international networks
• Infrastructure
• Operational Procedures
• Achievements
• Challenges / Targets

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What is SafeWeb?

• Hotline agency.
• Implemented by the EU funded SaferNet project.
• Partially funded by the Safer Internet EU
  programme.
• Supported by the Department of Computer Science
  of the University of Cyprus and the Institute of
  Computer Science of the Foundation for Research
  and Technology (FORTH).

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The SAFERNET project - The partnersUCY - HPCL

• One of the four departments of the School of Pure
  and Applied Sciences
• Personnel
• 17 faculty members
• 4 visiting- faculty members
• 3 teaching-stuff members
• Over 40 full-time researchers
• Runs a large number of EU-funded research
  programs.
• Has established communication channels with most
  local authorities and major industrial members.
• Highly reputable among local society.

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The SAFERNET project - The partnersFORTH - ICS

• One of the seven institutes of FORTH the
  largest Greek State RD Center.
• Personnel
• 25 Ph.D.s (75 University faculty)
• 70 Engineers
• Over 50 researchers
• Participated in numerous EU-funded research
  programs.
• Was the technology expert in the NetWatch project
  that resulted in the creation of the SafeLine
  the Greek hotline service.

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Targets (I)

• To serve as a point of reference for those who
  wish to protect themselves and their families
  from content that is illegal, harmful or
  offensive.
• To provide an efficient and easy to use reporting
  channel.
• To encourage Internet users to report illegal
  content.
• To serve as the intermediate layer between
  Internet users and policing agencies.
• To promote the visibility of the service among
  Internet users in general and the most affected
  groups of people in particular.

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Targets (II)

• To contribute in establishing an Internet safety
  task force among all local authorities, agencies
  and organization as well as members of the
  industry that are in any way concerned with law
  enforcement, Internet safety and public welfare
  in general.
• To contribute to and cooperate with European and
  international hotline networks.
• To cooperate with local and international
  Internet Safety awareness raising nodes and
  networks.
• To issue and disseminate reports on key service
  activities, as well as statistics on submitted
  reports and service usage.

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Overview

• SafeWeb Mission statement
• Safer Internet Programme
• Legislative Framework
• SafeWeb In depth
• National Cooperation
• Contribution to international networks
• Infrastructure
• Operational Procedures
• Achievements
• Challenges / Targets

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Safer Internet programmeObjectives

• Promoting safe use of the internet and online
  technologies.
• Particularly for children.
• Fight against illegal and harmful content and
  content unwanted by the end user.

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Safer Internet programmeActions

• Action 1 Fight against illegal content.
• Action 2 User Empowerment.
• Action 3 Promoting a Safer environment.
• Action 4 Awareness Raising

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Overview

• SafeWeb Mission statement
• Safer Internet Programme
• Legislative Framework
• SafeWeb In depth
• National Cooperation
• Contribution to international networks
• Infrastructure
• Operational Procedures
• Achievements
• Challenges / Targets

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Legislative Framework

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International Conventions

• Convention on Cybercrime, Budapest 23.11.2001
• (UN) Convention on the Rights of the Child
• (UN) The International Convention on the
  Elimination of All Forms of Racial
• Directive 2002/58/EC of the European Parliament
  and of the Council of 12 July 2002 concerning the
  processing of personal data and the protection of
  privacy in the electronic communications sector
  (Directive on privacy and electronic
  communications)

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Child pornographyDefinitions

• child a person under the age of eighteen years.
• trafficking any action that facilitates the
  entrance, transit or residence in, or egression
  from the state of the Republic of Cyprus of
  adults or children, and aims at the sexual
  exploitation of these persons.
• pornography the by any means visual or audio
  recording of any form of sexual act on any
  person.
• child sexual exploitation
• Exhortation or force over a child to participate
  in any form of sexual act.
• Sexual exploitation of a child through its
  prostitution or participation in other forms of
  sexual practices.
• Sexual exploitation of a child through its
  participation in pornographic material, including
  the production, distribution and selling, trading
  or possessing of such material.

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Child pornographyArticles (sample)

• States Parties undertake to protect the child
  from all forms of sexual exploitation and sexual
  abuse. For these purposes, States Parties shall
  in particular take all appropriate national,
  bilateral and multilateral measures to prevent
• The inducement or coercion of a child to engage
  in any unlawful sexual activity
• The exploitative use of children in prostitution
  or other unlawful sexual practices
• The exploitative use of children in pornographic
  performances and materials

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Child pornographyArticles (sample)

• Each Party shall adopt such legislative and other
  measures as may be necessary to establish as
  criminal offences under its domestic law, when
  committed intentionally and without right, the
  following conduct
• producing child pornography for the purpose of
  its distribution through a computer system
• offering or making available child pornography
  through a computer system
• distributing or transmitting child pornography
  through a computer system
• procuring child pornography through a computer
  system for oneself or for another person
• possessing child pornography in a computer system
  or on a computer-data storage medium

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Child pornographyArticles (sample)

• ... the term child pornography shall include
  pornographic material that visually depicts
• a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct
• a person appearing to be a minor engaged in
  sexually explicit conduct
• realistic images representing a minor engaged in
  sexually explicit conduct

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Overview

• SafeWeb Mission statement
• Safer Internet Programme
• Legislative Framework
• SafeWeb In depth
• National Cooperation
• Contribution to international networks
• Infrastructure
• Operational Procedures
• Achievements
• Challenges / Targets

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SafeWeb National Cooperation

• Local Authorities
• Law Enforcement Agencies (LEA)
• Ministries
• Ministry of Justice and Public Order
• Ministry of Education and Culture
• Legislators Regulators
• Office of the Commissioner for Electronic
  Communication Postal Regulation
• Law Office of the Republic
• Organizations Associations
• Industry
• Media

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Targets

• To effectively and efficiently address
  operational aspects.
• To form a forum where relevant issues can be
  discussed (suggestions, coordination, future
  steps) The Advisory Committee
• To promote Internet safety

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The Advisory Committee

• Purpose
• To enable SafeWeb build on gathered experience
  and established procedures.
• To invoke all interested parties in forming a
  national Internet Safety Task Force.
• To promote service visibility.
• Members (not strictly defined)
• The police force.
• Office of the Commissioner of Electronic
  Communications Postal Regulation.
• Ministry of Education Parents Association.
• Members of the industry (ISPs etc).
• Activities
• Meetings (expected 3 per year)
• Joined events

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Overview

• SafeWeb Mission statement
• Safer Internet Programme
• Legislative Framework
• SafeWeb In depth
• National Cooperation
• Contribution to international networks
• Infrastructure
• Operational Procedures
• Achievements
• Challenges / Targets

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INHOPE

• Towards a global coverage.
• SafeWeb has applied for membership (May 2005).
• Participation in the second annual meeting (May
  2005 Paris)
• Participation in the upcoming third annual
  meeting (October 2005 Athens)
• Exchange of expertise.
• Exchange of information.

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Other activities

• In contact with the awareness-raising network
  (INSFAFE)

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Overview

• SafeWeb Mission statement
• Safer Internet Programme
• Legislative Framework
• SafeWeb In depth
• National Cooperation
• Contribution to international networks
• Infrastructure
• Operational Procedures
• Achievements
• Challenges / Targets

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Reporting Facility

• Types of content handled
• Child Pornography
• Racism Xenophobia
• Promotion of drugs illegal substances
• Internet Bulling Harassment
• Electronic Crime
• Internet applications handled
• HTTP/Web
• E-mail
• IRC/Chat
• Newsgroups
• FTP
• Reporting mechanisms
• Web
• E-mail
• Telephone

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Website

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Website Sections
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Overview

• SafeWeb Mission statement
• Safer Internet Programme
• Legislative Framework
• SafeWeb In depth
• National Cooperation
• Contribution to international networks
• Infrastructure
• Operational Procedures
• Achievements
• Challenges / Targets

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Operational Procedures

• SafeWeb personnel are notified for the submission
  of a new report.
• First line of filtering.
• Information is forwarded to the LEA and / or to
  foreign hotline agencies.
• The user is kept informed of the status of the
  submitted report.

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Overview

• SafeWeb Mission statement
• Safer Internet Programme
• Legislative Framework
• SafeWeb In depth
• National Cooperation
• Contribution to international networks
• Infrastructure
• Operational Procedures
• Achievements
• Challenges / Targets

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Achievements

• SafeWeb has been operational since February 8th
  (Safer Internet Day).
• SafeWeb has been in contatct with all relevant
  local authorities, agencies and associations.
• Participation in the activities organized for the
  celebration of the Safer Internet Day.
• Member application submitted to INHOPE.
• Participation in the second annual meeting of
  INHOPE (May 2005 Paris)
• A number of reports have been submitted and
  processed according to the internal operational
  procedures.

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Overview

• SafeWeb Mission statement
• Safer Internet Programme
• Legislative Framework
• SafeWeb In depth
• National Cooperation
• Contribution to international networks
• Infrastructure
• Operational Procedures
• Achievements
• Challenges / Targets

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Near-future steps

• INHOPE membership.
• Promote national cooperation.
• Enhance service visibility.
• Website content enrichment.
• Website operational in Turkish language.
• Conformation with obligations under the SAFERNET
  project.

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Contact Information

• http//www.safeweb.org.cy
• http//grid.ucy.ac.cy/safeweb/
• info.safeweb_at_cs.ucy.ac.cy
• ellinm_at_cs.ucy.ac.cy

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Thank you foryour attention!
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