UPC only web firm to restrict child porn access

Just one of the 28 main internet providers in the country has so far signed up to a voluntary code of practice with the Gardaí restricting access to child abuse material.

Both Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald and interim Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan said they hoped other companies would follow suit.

The minister and the commissioner were announcing the establishment of a memorandum of understanding with UPC. It will prevent access to a list of websites identified by Gardaí as containing child abuse imagery. The minister and commissioner cited privacy and data protection rights as preventing laws legally obliging companies from having such imagery.