Telenor launches child pornography filter for mobile phones

Nordic Business Report, June 7, 2005

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Norwegian telecomms group Telenor ASA said on Tuesday (7 June) that it was launching a child pornography filter for mobile phones, limiting access to websites containing images depicting sexual assaults on children.

As far as Telenor is aware, Telenor Mobil is the first mobile operator in the world to introduce such a filter for mobile phones, the company said.

Based on an investigation conducted by Nye Kripos, the Norwegian National Criminal Investigation Service, the filter contains a blacklist of websites used to distribute child pornography. An updated list of such websites is fed into Telenor's servers.

If a user tries to access a blacklisted website he or she would automatically be redirected to another website explaining that the site the user initially tried to access contains child pornography.

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