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Blocking Good Practice | Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) https://www.education.gov.uk/childrenandyoungpeople/safeguardingchildren/b00222029/child-internet-safety https://media.education.gov.uk/assets/files/ukccis%20advice%20on%20child%20internet%20safety.pdf http://www.openrightsgroup.org/ourwork/reports/response-to-dfe-consultation-on-parental-controls The obligation to protect and filter lies firstly with the parent or carer. The responsible adult has the duty of care in applying restrictions, filters or information and guidance for each child. Parents and youth should be warned and informed that there is age appropriate information online available through a free WiFi connection that will help provide a safe experience for them. Links to pages with the relevant safe internet practice information can be inluded. We should include in our “disclaimer” a phrase that indicates that proceeding beyond the initial page has been done with permission and knowledge of a parent or carer.

Roberto, thank you for sending the link to the Internet Watch Foundation's watch list. Thankfully the website makes clear that nearly all UK ISP (including ours) has and blocks the list for all it's consumers already. IWF URL List Recipients | Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) " The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) provides a dynamic list of individual web pages with child sexual abuse content to its members, companies within their group and Licensees that have the ability to filter and block access to such content. The following member companies and Licensees have voluntarily committed to block access to child sexual abuse web pages thereby protecting consumers of their services from being inadvertently exposed to such content. The list is supplied to IWF members including internet service providers, mobile operators, search and content providers and filtering companies as well as to Licensees. The companies below may deploy the list in different ways across some or all of their services and technology platforms. There is an agreed self-certification process for verifying that those providers listed below as blocking URLs included in the list are testing their systems for doing so." Internet Service Providers BT Claranet East of England Broadband Network Easynet Eclipse Exa Networks Karoo Kcom Madasafish Namesco NDO O2 Orange Plusnet Research Machines SimplyNames Sky Talk Internet Talk Talk Tesco The Cloud Thus UK Online Virgin Media Yorkshire and Humber Grid for Learning Mobile Operators 3 O2 Orange T-Mobile Vodafone Search and Content Providers AOL UK Ask Jeeves BBC Bing Google Yahoo! UK & Ireland Filtering Companies Bloxx Blue Coat Systems Censornet Cisco Commtouch Fortinet Technologies intY Lightspeed Systems McAfee Net Intelligence Netsweeper Nominum SecureWorks Smoothwall SonicWall Sophos Trend Micro Webroot Websense Zscaler Zvelo Licensees Cricket Communications Dhiraagu Meteor MTN Group

wardsidjame, Thanks for the link. It looks like it will lead me to the truth. The WiFi Foundation have a product to sell so they of course will slant the truth. But they do offer some good links to relevant legislation! Thanks a bunch.

wardsidjame, I have heard these points but can not find the "law" or guidance, or case law precedent outlining good practice and what the filters white or black list must or must not contain. We are a public space, a cafe, a shop a museum and a gallery. I wondered how Starbucks, BT, Stagecoach Bus, and most other coffee shops and the like are able to do it. It is not a matter of how to do it. It is the extent. As an open to the public place for all legal levels of social interaction, discovery, learning and exchange we are about being open. Safe yes, but as open as possible. So we want to apply exactly the right level of filtering as stipulated by industry standards and government guidelines not our own whim.

Does anyone have definitive information on the responsibilities and liabilities of providing free and unfettered WiFi to the public in places where under 18's would be able to use the connection? I have already spoke to OfCom and they were no help at all on content filtering, disclaimers or any other information. OfCom did try to say I'd would have to buy a licence for broadcasting WiFi and I said I would be using commercially available equipment that did not require a licence to broadcast.

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