UK Child Abuse Investigators Resent Being Charged For ISP Data

Posted by timothy on Thursday January 22, 2009 @09:22PM from the thinly-veiled-threat dept.

nk497 writes "In the UK, ISPs are charging a child protection agency for access to IP user details they need for their investigations into online-related abuse. The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre has paid out over £170,000 since 2006 on IP data requests related to child abuse cases, and expects to pay another £100,000 this year — enough to fund another two investigators. The CEOP's CEO said that any ISP which can't afford to give the police such help 'simply can't afford to do business.'" Surely it must cost the ISPs money to comply with such requests, no matter how official the quest.

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Re:Time to make up your minds, everybody by jandersen · 2009-01-23 01:16 · Score: 0, Redundant

I see that I've modded down as "flamebait" - I don't know whether to be annoyed of amused.
So, is a call to be more reasonable now "flamebaiting"? Or was it because the modder didn't actually read the text any further than to object to words like "moan and whine"; and then of course the terrible heresy of stating the opnion that a government agency may in fact be right once in a while?