Canadian Police Know Websites Visited In Real Time

Jim Wilkes
Toronto Star
March 10, 2011

Halton police say technology is helping them pinpoint predators in their war on child pornography.

A one-second snapshot of Internet use on Wednesday morning showed six Oakville computers, seven in Burlington, four in Halton Hills and five in Milton were accessing child pornography sites at that moment, said Det.-Sgt. Brad Cook.

Police also detected 158 computers in Halton that accessed child porn last month, he said.

But Cook said police won’t reveal how they can track Internet traffic for fear of giving an upper hand to those who troll child porn sites.

Police departments around the world are engaged in an evolving game of technological cat-and-mouse with web offenders. In 2005, Halton was one of several Canadian police departments that adopted the Microsoft Child Exploitation Tracking System (CETS).

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