Child abuse image content list

[10] By the middle of 2006, the government reported that 90% of domestic broadband connections were either currently blocking or had plans to by the end of the year.

Home Office minister Alan Campbell pledged that all ISPs would block access to child abuse websites by the end of 2007[11] and UK Home Office Minister Vernon Coaker instructed all UK ISPs to implement a version of Cleanfeed by the end of 2007 on a voluntary basis, or face legal compulsion.

CAIC targets only alleged child sexual abuse content identified by the Internet Watch Foundation.

In June 2011 the Motion Picture Association began court proceedings in an attempt to force BT to use Cleanfeed to block access to NewzBin2, a site indexing downloads of copyrighted content.

[20] The case ( Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp & Ors v British Telecommunications Plc [2011])[21] only compels BT's ISP division to implement the block on NewzBin, it remains outside of remit of the IWF URL list which is strictly limited to blocking sites which host child sexual abuse content.

[22] In August 2015 the IWF announced it was to begin sharing the list with tech giants Facebook, Google, Twitter and Yahoo to block contents being distributed through their networks.

[28][29] 90.21% of the participants in the limited scale survey were unaware of the existence of CleanFeed; of those who had heard about it, only 14.81% percent understood it completely.

There are no safeguards to stop sites unrelated to child pornography being added to the list as a result of policy changes.

[33][34] This poses the question as to whether websites hosting child pornography could adopt similar measures to allow their users access to blocked content.

Finally, information has surfaced that suggests that Cleanfeed could potentially be manipulated to provide a blacklist of blocked websites.