White IT

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White IT is an alliance that has set itself the goal of developing measures to combat child pornography on the Internet . Representatives of the network industry, the IT industry, the investigative authorities and medical, social and victim protection associations work together on the basis of a Memorandum of Understanding . The name White IT was chosen analogously to the term Green IT .

Development of the Alliance

The alliance was founded on November 27, 2009 in Berlin on the initiative of Lower Saxony's Minister of the Interior, Uwe Schünemann, to combat child pornography on the Internet. As part of the alliance, it should be worked out what is medically or from the point of view of the victims desirable, meets with social acceptance, is technically possible and legally permissible. The White IT eV association was founded in May 2011 for activities that contribute to the goals of the alliance and require their own legal framework .

In order to put the discussion on a scientifically sound factual basis and to develop the measures in a targeted manner, a study on the distribution channels of child pornography on the Internet was carried out by Bernd-Dieter Meier and Arnd Hüneke from 2010 to 2011 by the criminal science institute at Leibniz University Hannover . Based on the results of the study, according to which the World Wide Web only plays a secondary role in the distribution, the deliberations within the alliance focus on reliably recognizing known child pornographic content, for example in order to help the investigating authorities sift through confiscated material to facilitate. A key role is played by the use of hash values (digital fingerprints, so to speak ) of known child pornographic content, which is collected centrally at the Federal Criminal Police Office in the so-called PERKEO database and made available to the State Criminal Police Offices. The further procedure should be derived from the assessment of the suitability, as well as the legal and social classification of this topic.

The White IT Symposium has been held annually since 2010 as an interdisciplinary specialist forum on the subject of protection from child pornography.

After the change of government in Lower Saxony in January 2013, White IT was continued by the new Interior Minister Boris Pistorius . In March 2014, the work of White IT was positively highlighted in a plenary session of the Lower Saxony state parliament by the MPs Björn Thümler (CDU) and Andrea Schröder-Ehlers (SPD).

In order to strengthen self-assertion even in small children and to sensitize parents to the topic of "sexual abuse", the alliance White IT published Pixi books in December that are supposed to address the topic in a child-friendly manner. In November 2015, the contact officers at the Hanover Police Department were given 5,000 new copies. In 2013, a book from the Pixi Wissen series was published for older children to prepare them for safe use of the Internet. In 2013, an ideas competition was started at CeBIT in order to develop further ideas with which means the self-assertion and problem awareness of children and young people can be strengthened. In March 2014 Microsoft announced that it would provide the White IT alliance with the PhotoDNA solution it had developed itself for work in Germany.

Study on the distribution routes

The study on the distribution channels was presented on May 2, 2011 at the Federal Press Conference in Berlin. The final results are as follows:

  • Only in a minority of cases was it obtained or distributed for money. These are primarily “beginners” who pay money for content that is actually freely available. However, the relevant sites often have fraudulent intentions or distribute malware .
  • Most of the perpetrators did not acquire or distribute child pornography on the World Wide Web , but in peer-to-peer networks or in closed user groups. The main motivators here are striving for profiling and mutual exchange.
  • A clear majority of the cases uncovered go back to police investigative work, not to reports.
  • The use of undercover investigators in the closed user groups is currently failing due to the practice in the scene of requiring newcomers to pass a so-called "chastity test", i. H. to contribute child pornographic content yourself.
  • In the cases that were prosecuted, there were serious cases of child pornography (severity seven to nine on the so-called COPINE scale ). Only if there is clear evidence are there indictments after the investigation, but then almost always convictions.

With this study there is for the first time a scientific basis for the distribution channels.

criticism

Christian Bahls, founder of the victims' association MOGiS e. V. (Misuse Victims Against InternetSperren) and member of White-IT criticized in December 2011 in a lecture at the 28th Chaos Communication Congress : “In the White-IT alliance there are of course also reasonable actors. However, I see the actual protection of victims fading into the background. On the other hand, the projects that seem to establish a new control and monitoring structure are advancing more and more. ”After Christian Bahls' voting rights on the Program Management Board were withdrawn, MOGiS eV stopped working with the White IT alliance on September 28, 2012 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to the press release of November 27, 2009, the founding members are : Medical Association of Lower Saxony , Avira GmbH , Auerbach Foundation, BITKOM eV , Computacenter AG & Co oHG , Cybits AG, Deutscher Kinderschutzbund eV , ECO - Association of the Internet Industry eV , EWE TEL GmbH , voluntary self-regulation Multimedia service provider eV , Fujitsu Technology Solutions GmbH , IBM Germany , Leibniz University Hannover , Microsoft Germany GmbH , Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior, Sport and Integration , ORACLE Germany GmbH , Lower Saxony Chamber of Psychotherapists , Software AG , Secude IT Security GmbH, University of Potsdam - Hasso- Plattner Institute for Software System Technology
  2. ↑ Memorandum of Understanding ( Memento of January 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.1 MB) of the initiative of November 27, 2009, accessed on September 29, 2012
  3. ↑ cf. on this Heise-Online : "White IT": State and economy united against child pornography
  4. ↑ cf. also on this the memorandum of understanding of the initiative: Memorandum of understanding of the initiative of November 27, 2009 ( Memento of January 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ The White IT Supporters eV association was founded on May 2, 2011 and entered on August 3, 2011 under the registration number 201415 at the Hanover registry court. In January 2014, the new, simplified name White IT eV was entered in the register
  6. ↑ Child porn search for all Internet users Zeit-Online from December 27, 2011
  7. ↑ White IT Symposium 2012 ( Memento from June 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) authorities Spiegel from November 1, 2012, accessed on October 28, 2015
  8. ^ White IT Symposium in Hanover - Protecting Children from Sexual Violence Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of October 23, 2015, accessed on October 28, 2015
  9. ↑ Compare the imprint of the alliance's website, which lists Minister Boris Pistorius as authorized to represent ( memento of December 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 28, 2015
  10. ^ Lower Saxony State Parliament - 17th electoral period - 32nd plenary session on March 27, 2014 - Minutes pages 2955 and 2957, (PDF 943 kB) accessed on January 8, 2016;
  11. ^ Alliance White IT presents Pixi-Bücher , Silicon.de from December 2nd, 2011
  12. ^ Prevention work with children - the association hands over 5,000 Pixi books to the police , Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of November 3, 2015, accessed on November 3, 2015
  13. ↑ A Pixi book explains the Internet NDR to students on December 12, 2012
  14. ↑ Presentation of the ideas competition on the White IT website ( Memento of April 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  15. ↑ PhotoDNA: Fight against child pornography ( Memento from November 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Newsletter Network Security of the authorities Spiegel from May 5, 2014, page 3
  16. ↑ Information on the study on the website of the Criminal Science Institute of the University of Hanover, accessed on September 29, 2012
  17. ↑ Documentation of the article on the website of the Chaos Communication Congress , accessed on January 15, 2014
  18. ^ Zeit Online (2011): White IT. Child porn search for all internet users on December 27, 2011, accessed on January 8, 2011.
  19. ↑ Heise (2011): 28C3: Work on the child pornography-free network of December 28, 2011
  20. ^ Alliance against child pornography on the Internet: MOGiS declares exit from White IT. Article on netzpolitik.org, accessed September 29, 2012.