Internet Expert, Thus Clive Feather has been with Thus and its ISP brand, Demon Internet, for five years. He is one of the company’s resident Internet Experts and plays a key role as an advisor on key Internet issues. Clive represents Thus on a number of industry bodies such as the Internet Crime Forum, and […]
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Tiscali joined ICRA in March 2002, recognising that the desire to filter content is an issue of growing importance among their users across Europe. Indeed, many potential family users are reluctant to go online for fear of exposing members of their household to unsuitable content. Media that once talked about the internet Gold Rush now […]
At the London launch of ICRAfilter in March 2002, the then UK Home Office Minister, Beverley Hughes MP, announced that the existing recommendation that sites on the .gov.uk domain should be PICS labelled would henceforth be a requirement. This policy has been incorporated into the Office of the e-Envoy’s Guidelines Guidelines for UK Government websites […]
If you want to get a label for your site, please click here and use the label generator on this site. If, however, you would like to include a copy of the label & meta data generator on your website, or you would like to have a copy on your computer for easy offline use, […]
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ICRA does not deal with illegal material on the internet. This is done by specialist agencies that usually work closely with national police forces and Internet Service Providers to locate and remove such material, and, where possible, to prosecute the offender(s). The international nature of the internet makes enforcement of “the law” extremely difficult. There […]
Why do companies and organizations support ICRA? What are others’ experiences of using the ICRA system? No two sets of answers will be the same but the following case studies are designed to offer some insights from those who have direct experience. The Office of the e-Envoy, part of the British Cabinet Office, is implementing […]
ICRA works with a variety of organizations around the world which, in one way or another help to promote the protection of children from potentially harmful content and the protection of free speech on the internet. Many of our affiliates include ICRA labelling as part of a broader scheme. The inclusion of an affiliate on […]
On 1st June 2004, the UK Office of Communications (Ofcom) published a consultation on its strategy and priorities for the promotion of media literacy. ICRA’s response is given below. The Internet Content Rating Association is an international, non-profit organisation whose mission is to protect children from potentially harmful material while protecting free speech on the […]
Désolé, mais cette page n’est disponible qu’en Anglais Templates can be as simple or as complex as you wish. It is perfectly possible, for example, to make a simple template that allows access to a list of sites and forbids access to any other. On the other hand, using a combination of filtering rules, block […]