Isis in the News

Below are a selection of recent Press articles relating to the project

· The Isis Conference featured on BBC Radio Lancashire and in the Lancashire Evening Post, 27/10/2010

· “Definite line from porn to abuse”, Irish Sunday Tribune, 27/6/2010

· Featured in ITN Online, The Independent and internationally in the New Zealand Herald, Malaysian Sun, Australian IT, ABC News Australia, NetIndia 123, The Times of India, Science Daily, Germany’s Heute, Technology Review and Spiegel. Also on Austrian radio, BBC radio Sussex and Suffolk, BBC radio Cumbria and BBC radio Lancashire. 7/6/10

· “New software to ‘vet’ chatroom users”, featured on the BBC 6 o’clock news and BBC News channel, 31/5/10

· Featured on the Irish broadcaster RTE's documentary, 'Crimes against Children', as part of a study to assess the spread of child abuse media, 31/5/10

· In October 2009, the Isis project was selected as a UK case study for the Internet Governance Forum. Read more

· “Spy software to combat online paedophiles”, Telegraph, 19/10/08 (and also cited by various other news agencies)

· “Pedophile Proof Chat Rooms?”, Scientific American, 18/8/08

· “The talk of crime”, article about Isis in the Police Magazine ‘Investigative Practice Journal’, 10/7/08

· “New Weapon to track paedophiles”, Lancashire Evening Post, 4/7/08

· “Lancaster boffins aid hunt for sex beasts”, The Citizen, 20/6/08

· “Universities Join the Fight to Protect Children Online”, Lancaster University, 18/6/08

· Also reported on BBC Radio Lancashire, 19/6/08

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