Federal authorities have complained that Internet giant Google refuses to identify users who post criminal material on the social-networking website Orkut.<\/p>\n
Under its order, the Brazilian Senate committee that investigates paedophilia would receive all the material that was sought by the authorities, the Senate's official agency reported.<\/p>\n
The federal prosecutor for Sao Paulo, Sergio Suiama, told the Senate panel that in the last two years, nearly 90% of the 56,000 paedophilia complaints on the Internet were related to Orkut.<\/p>\n
Orkut, the Brazilian answer to MySpace and Facebook, counts 27 million users in the South American country.<\/p>\n
Suiama said that paedophile actions on Orkut have been helped by a tool allowing users to create private albums only accessible to their contacts.<\/p>\n
“The dissemination of Orkut in Brazil has turned the country into a distributor of child pornography and Google doesn't seem to be worried by that,” he said.<\/p>\n
One-third of Brazil's 42 million Internet surfers are between 10 and 15 years old, making measures to combat child pornography on Orkut a matter of urgency, Suiama said.<\/p>\n
Google's chief in Brazil, Alexandre Hohagen, said his company may implement in the next few months a filter blocking child pornography that could also help notify authorities about cases of paedophilia.<\/p>\n
Brazilian prosecutors have threatened Google with civil and criminal action if it failed to reveal to authorities the private albums on Orkut that contain child pornography by Wednesday.<\/p>\n
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