Taking a cue from the successful debuts of Microsoft’s anti-child pornography system in Canada and Indonesia, Italy is the first European country to adopt the Child Exploitation Tracking System.
Amid allegations that children have been downloading porn via mobile phones, the Italian Communications Ministry has launched an investigation of 3 Italia, a mobile phone network.
Italy's cash-strapped government has decided to raise taxes on one of the country's few vibrant industries, pornography, to help harness the burgeoning budget deficit.
Part of U.S.-led Operation Predator, Italian police raided dozens of homes over the weekend and located an estimated 96 child porn suspects, mostly middle-aged, upper middle-class men. The investigation took nine months to come to fruition, although no arrests have yet been made.
