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Brazil's telecom operators to work with police on Net child porn
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-12-18 10:31

RIO DE JANEIRO -- Brazilian telecommunications companies TIM, Oi, and Brasil Telecom signed a cooperation deal Wednesday with the country's police authorities for quick supply of data in the investigation of Internet child pornography cases.

Representatives of the federal government including Senate President Garibaldi Alves and Magno Malta, head of the Parliamentary Inquiry Committee (CPI), which investigates pedophilia cases in Brazil, also signed the document.

According to the agreement, the telecom operators are obliged to provide information about suspects in child pornography cases within three days. If the minors involved are under life threat, the data must be provided in 24 hours, and if the risk is imminent, in two hours.

The telecom operators will have a year to make technical adjustments needed for the speedy supply of information to the police.

The two sides also agreed to set up a committee within 60 days to oversee the implementation of the cooperation deal.