Lars Kindervater joined in August 2008 Deutsche Telekom Group Headquarters' Public & Regulatory Affairs department where he works on public and regulatory issues in a national and international context. He coordinates Deutsche Telekom's consumer-related topics such as universal service, health & EMF, consumer rights and child safety.

Before joining this position Lars Kindervater worked five years for Deutsche Telekom’s international mobile unit T-Mobile on similar subjects and two years for T-Mobile Germany. Previously Lars Kindervater was in charge of the parliamentary office of a German Member of Parliament for nearly five years on a part-time basis.

Lars Kindervater has been deeply involved in his company’s child safety activities in Germany but also internationally. Among other, he led on behalf of Deutsche Telekom the negotiations on the European Safer Mobile Framework (2007), the global Mobile Alliance against Child Sexual Abuse (2008) and TeachToday.eu (2008).

Lars graduated (Master of Arts) in Political Science, International Law and Modern History at the University of Bonn. Furthermore he holds a Master of European Studies of the Centre for European Integration Studies (ZEI). He is fluent in English and German.


ABSTRACT

Parallel session: Discussion panel - Blocking illegal content on the Internet – the role of ISPs

Fighting child sexual abuse content in mobile networks

To counter the threat of child sexual abuse content being misused over mobile broadband networks, the GSMA announced the launch of the Mobile Alliance against Child Sexual Abuse Content in February 2008.  The objective of the Alliance is to obstruct the use of the mobile environment by individuals or organisations wishing to consume or profit from child sexual abuse content. (http://gsmworld.com/)