Keitai Kiddy Katch

[Taro Toporific]

NUDE on keitai Paedophiles set picture phone trap
Home Office warned of 'horrifying implications'
Sunday June 29, 2003 / The Observer. UK
Paedophiles are using the latest mobile phone technology to target schoolchildren...
'We're on the cusp of an evolution in mobile phones that is altering the parameters of the whole issue of paedophiliac contact,' said Rachel O'Connell, a member of a Home Office task force working on internet protection and legislation against 'grooming' - the cultivating of internet relationships with children to lure them into sexual activity...
'It seems reasonable to expect that paedophiles will exploit this capability to get children to record pictures of themselves naked and touching themselves,'...
In Japan, where use of the new phones is widespread, the incidence of child abuse has rocketed, with more than 90 per cent of cases involving an initial contact made by the child from their phone.
Figures given at a recent conference on internet abuse in Japan show that mobile phones are responsible for a 260 per cent increase in arrests in the past year, from 302 to 793. Over the same period, police recorded a 210 per cent rise in the number of violations of child pornography and prostitution laws.

[Caustic Saint]

From the same article:

'It seems reasonable to expect that paedophiles will exploit this capability to get children to record pictures of themselves naked and touching themselves,' she said. 'The implications are horrifying; children can use their phones in the playground at school, take photos of each other in the changing room and tell the paedophile exactly what time they'll be at the school gate. They can even take a photo of somewhere quiet near the school itself to pinpoint the place of contact.'

Ownership of mobile phones is already high among children, with almost 60 per cent of secondary school pupils and 20 per cent of primary school pupils possessing a handset. The new generation of phones which allow users to access the internet and take and send photographs are swiftly gaining popularity.

Easy solution - don't get your kid a phone with a camera. Hell, don't get 'em a phone at all. Children do not need cellphones, no matter how loudly they whine or what their friends' have. Remove the phone and you remove the problem before it even starts.

[cstaylor]

Amen to that. Same goes for the console games... get them a fishing pole instead.

[katakori]

no need for the fishing pole. we just mentioned they are already touching themselves. just make sure they don't take pics of it, that's all...

[gpvillamil]

In the late 19th century when the telephone was introduced, a horrified commentator explained that "It will be possible for the women of the household to enter into conversation with males to whom they have not been introduced, without the men of the house being aware of it."

And we all know where that went...

[Crispy]

Dear GOD, how did our civilization ever survive the late 19th century??

It reminds me of all those fanfictions and oekaki boards out there, with 14 year olds creating porn of one kind or another, with no interference or encouragement from any adults at all. what the hell are you supposed to do about that?

[Taro Toporific]

In the late 19th century when the telephone was introduced...

And we all know where that went...

Whatz a telephone? I have used one in weeks.

[gpvillamil]

In the late 19th century when the telephone was introduced...

And we all know where that went...

Whatz a telephone? I have used one in weeks.

The Telephone? An instrument of depravity! Originally created so that respectable people could advise of the delivery of an important Telegram, and perhaps listen to the occasional Speech from Important Persons or Cultural Programmes... but then, twisted by the Evil One to his own Wicked Ends.

[Taro Toporific]

The Telephone? An instrument of depravity! Originally created so that respectable people could advise of the delivery of an important Telegram.

Hey, you're preaching to the choir.
I loved t use this teletype
in the Otemachi KDD office until 1986!


Then in 1989 I got my very own TELEVOMIT(tm)to connect directly wooo-woo to my IBM PC.

[Jack]

This seems rather silly to me. Another scare mongering tactic from someone who thinks that he/she discovered something. Kids are going to touch themselves, take pictures and e-mail it to some dude, right? Yes, our of a population of 6 billion 5 kids might do that. Some people have way too much time on their hands to come up with crap like this.

[American Oyaji]

You know what gets me? The big to do over SARS. Or West Nile Virus.

Yeah it kills. But more people die in car accidents.

But people aint trying to ban cars.