| Dr. Marek Dudek, NASK, Poland |
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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE  He has been working for NASK (Research and Academic Computer Network) for over 5 years. During this period, he built and developed the Dyżurnet.pl Team, which deals with reports of illegal content on the Internet. He participates in the implementation of European Union contracts and projects from the Safer Internet group. Before that, he worked for 9 years at Polish Telecommunication (the national telecom operator), where he led the Security Department, building the first team that reacted to reports of various Internet abuse. He graduated from the Military University of Technology, where he defended his doctoral thesis on cryptographic information protection. Marek Dudek has often been a speaker at various conferences on information protection and on reacting to Internet abuse. He participated in the work of the international ETNO organization (The European Telecommunications Network Operators' Association), and since his move to the NASK, he is involved in the work of INHOPE (the International Association of Internet Hotlines ) – an organization of all hotline teams working worldwide, responsible for receiving and acting on notifications of illegal contents, received from Internet users. Together with the team, he runs the website www.dyżurnet.pl, which contains documents and statistical data on reports handled by the hotline.ABSTRACT 29 September, Wednesday, 12.50 - 13.15 Plenary session: Harmful but legal content - safety concerns for children Dyżurnet.pl is a hotline that has been operating since January 2005 at the Research and Academic Computer Network (NASK). It deals with reports concerning illegal and harmful content on the internet. The team works as part of the European Commission’s "Safer Internet" programme. In line with the accepted procedure Dyżurnet.pl passes information about illegal internet content to the Polish Police or to other hotlines associated in INHOPE (International Association of Internet Hotlines). If the content is on Polish servers and is legal, but harmful to young people, Dyżurnet.pl contacts the website administrator or a particular hosting company and requests that the reported content is deleted or moved to another section of the website. During the last 2 years Dyżurnet.pl observed an increase in the number of notifications regarding content that is harmful (particularly to young people), but not regulated nor banned by the Polish law. Many reports concern brutal, macabre or obscene materials (photographs of accident victims, cannibalism, body deformations, bestiality towards animals). The reports are related to promoting dangerous behaviours, for example encouraging abortion (including home abortion, without medical care), promoting sects and other dangerous social groups, aggression, racism, encouraging self-mutilation, suicide, using substances and other psychoactive drugs, promoting bulimia and anorexia. The notifications also include reports on financial abuse and failures to provide full information about high costs of using services. The detailed analysis of the abovementioned reports proves that it is necessary to initiate regular cooperation with social networking website administrators and execute the implemented self-regulation policies before they are regulated by law.
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