UK banks, as well as savings and loan associations, have been given the power to find out if the credit cards they've issued are being used to access illegal material online.
Most companies would rather keep quiet than call the police if they caught employees downloading child pornography, according to research published by the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) on Wednesday.
Internet law in 2003 was full of surprises.
The Virtual Global Taskforce (VGT) launched an international Web site on Wednesday to help provide information on safe Internet use, direct victims of abuse to relevant support groups and provide a safe way for people to report online child abuse.
The government and its Labor rivals have been indulging in a slanging match over the Coalition's plans to introduce Internet porn blocking software.
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