To provide an effective response to the spread of the sexual exploitation of children, Telefono Arcobaleno, promotes international cooperation between different institutional actors on the different levels and in the different contexts that the phenomenon affects (legislative, cultural, social, scientific and technological), reversing the trend that seeks local solutions to what has become a global drama.
Round table: “The fight against paedophilia online. Experts give their views”
On 10th December 2008, in Syracuse (Sicily) on the day of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, Telefono Arcobaleno organized a panel discussion with some of the leading European experts in the field of cyber-crime to lay the groundwork for a permanent group whose task would be to set out the scientific principles capable of inspiring and guiding all those involved in combating the sexual exploitation of children on-line.
The debate was sponsored by three international organizations: the International Observatory of Telefono Arcobaleno on the theme of pedophilia on-line and the sexual exploitation of children, the IISFA- the International Information Systems Forensics Association and the ISISC – the Istituto Superiore Internazionale di Scienze Criminali.
The meeting was attended by academics and police investigators from France, Finland, Malta, Cyprus, Austria, Switzerland and Italy, as well as the General Secretariat of Interpol.
Conference: “The fight against cyber-crime and child pornography on the Italian and international scene. Towards a set of European Guidelines for computer forensics”
On October 2nd 2009, in Syracuse (Sicily), Telefono Arcobaleno and the IISFA (International Information Systems Forensics Association) organized a conference entitled “The fight against cyber-crime and child pornography on the Italian and international scene. Towards a set of European Guidelines for computer forensics”. Several of the "pioneers" of the digital age whose work led to the earliest rules and regulations of the on-line world, experts at a European level, spoke to examine the multiple facets related to computer crime and child abuse on-line, together with the investigators who first conceived and developed the investigative techniques surrounding the collection of digital evidence, the magistrates who set out the early jurisprudence in the field as well as lawyers, consultants and experts who helped develop the law as it stands today, along with academics and researchers who conceived and organized the first academic chairs and non-governmental organizations active in different parts of Europe in the field of the protection of human rights.
Guidelines for computer forensics
Telefono Arcobaleno and the IISFA (International Information Systems Forensics Association) are promoters of a project for the creation of a set of “European Guidelines for computer forensics” and on October 2nd 2009 in Syracuse (Sicily), set up the Permanent Technical Scientific Committee which will be responsible for their drawing up, dissemination and periodical review. In addition to the presidents of Telefono Arcobaleno and the IISFA its members include elements of the judiciary, academics and investigators from France, Germany, Romania, Finland, Austria, Malta, Cyprus, Portugal, Switzerland and Italy, the Istituto Internazionale Superiore di Scienze Criminali, the UNICRI of the United Nations as well as the major non-governmental organizations active in the field within Europe.
The “European Guidelines for computer forensics”, developed outside the formal legislative process, at one and the same time seek to address some of the typical self-regulatory mechanisms as well as streamlining the rules and principles that are universally accepted and shared by the international scientific community, with the aim of creating a route-map designed to standardize the application of the techniques.
Whilst not being legally binding, by virtue of the authority of the experts who have developed them and the breadth of the social context by which they are shared, the guidelines are aimed at influencing the behavior of subjects for whom they are intended, producing the resulting legal effects (soft law).