BBC - Radio 4 Woman's Hour -Child pornography and credit cards

In July the law was changed to make it easier to stop people using their credit cards to pay for child porn.

This followed a long campaign by children’s charities and a discussion on the issue on Woman’s Hour. British banks now have the right to obtain information from the courts on who has been convicted of being in possession of child pornography. Credit card companies can withdraw cards if people are guilty of using them in an illegal way. However, since the law was changed, the children’s charity NCH claims that the banks are being slow to take advantage of their new power to obtain details of those who have purchased internet child porn and take action against them. How effectively are banks implementing the new law to prevent their cards being used to pay for images of child abuse on the internet?

NCH is also concerned that a proportion of internet service providers still do not block access to internet child abuse images, even though the technology has existed for a number of years. Why are some ISPs not doing more to stop internet users from downloading internet child porn?

Martha will be talking to John Carr, internet advisor to NCH, the children’s charity and Sandra Quinn, director of communication at APACS (Association for Payment Clearing Services).

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