[TheGuardian] Online child abuse monitor to tackle peer-to-peer networks

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The UK’s « key internet monitoring service », the Internet Watch Foundation is going to be granted permission for a « six-month pilot scheme in collaboration with Google, Microsoft and the Child Exploitation and Online Protection agency (Ceop) » in order to investigate peer-to-peer (P2P) networks for material related to child abuse.

« Separately, [British Prime Minister] David Cameron […] said that the government listening service GCHQ would be brought in to tackle child abuse images. »

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/nov/18/online-child-abuse-peer-to-peer