I wouldn't say that she would have a more enhanced role in tracking down abusers, but I'm thinking of a more enhanced role in looking into the issue of what ISPs could do, for example, to better assist law enforcement and to speak for the children and talk about their privacy interests as well as the privacy interests of customers.
One thing, for example, is that perhaps her office could do some research or investigation into what ISPs could do to remove the images when they are identified by law enforcement, to make sure they're taken off--those kinds of issues. I don't think the office has a law enforcement role, but she is an ombudsman advocate for privacy. I guess what we're asking is that her office be more proactive in speaking for the privacy rights of children in these cases, and to do research into the impact of....
We've included in our brief an impact statement from a young girl from the States who was abused over a number of years. Her adoptive father put her photos on the Internet. Her impact statement is used in the sentencing of offenders who are found to be in possession of her images. In it she says that one of the hardest parts is knowing that her images are still out there, still being used by men for their own sexual perversions.
We're saying that the Privacy Commissioner has a role to take in speaking for that child and other children out there.