Overview

IA Japan is established of the future society on the Internet in July 1, 2001

IA Japan is aiming to establish an Advanced Information Society and to contribute both to Japanese economic growth and improved human life by promoting the growth of the Internet.

IA Japan opened the Internet Hotline Center accepts reports of illegal and harmful content for public safety and social order in the Internet from Internet users. Operation of the hotline center started in June 1, 2006.

Hotlines

• Organzation : IA Japan
• Web : http://www.intenrnethotline.jp

The Internet Association Japan (President: Akinobu Kanasugi) has established an integrated reporting point - The Internet Hotline Center (hereafter referred to as 'Hotline') - for reporting illegal or harmful information on the Internet. This is to enable safe use of the Internet, which has become a social infrastructure of today. The Hotline will launch operation at 14:00 on Thursday June 1. Reports will be received on a web page. This web page can be accessed not only from PCs but also from mobile phones connected to the Internet.

The Hotline is an organizational mechanism against illegal and harmful information on the Internet, that will receive reports from Internet users, perform evaluation based on a pre-determined criteria, and, based on the evaluation, will take certain actions such as reporting to the police and/or requesting the provider or the administrator of the e-bulletin board to remove the information. Europe and the United States already have similar mechanisms operated by government or private organization against illegal information such as child pornography. Operation has also started in some Asian countries.