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DoJ wants more money to scour P2P networks |
At a hearing yesterday before the Senate Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs, anti-child porn activists urged the Senators to increase the FBI's budget for combating child porn online and to move forward with plans to create a next-generation network monitoring and database system that can ferret out child porn trafficking on P2P networks, web sites, and chat rooms. The new system would be hosted on the FBI's Regional Information Sharing Systems (RISS) network and would give more law enforcement agents across the country access to an existing system, based in Wyoming, that's currently being used to find and catch online child porn traffickers. Congress would also expand and better fund the current Wyoming system, called Operation FairPlay, consolidating it in a newly-created National Internet Crimes Against Children Data Network Center.
In arguing for the funding and the upgrade, Grier Weeks, executive director of the National Association to Protect Children, briefly recapped for the senators the history of the Canadian Child Exploitation Tracking System (CETS), a suite of network monitoring, database, information management, and collaboration tools that Microsoft developed and funded to the tune of $7 million. In 2003, Microsoft deployed the system in Canada and offered it to the US Department of Justice, which turned it down because it was then locked in a bitter anti-trust dispute with the software maker.
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