Mobile phone porn can be blocked by new technology

TECHNOLOGY to block mobile phone porn has been developed by a Dublin company and phone operators are obliged to make it available, according to the head of an Oireachtas watchdog committee.

Dublin-based company Telcotec is apparently the first in the world to have invented the image-filtering software.

After previously saying that there was no mechanism to filter pornographic images, Dáil communications committee chairman Noel O’Flynn now says technology has been developed, with the potential to protect children, parents and normal law-abiding mobile phone customers.