Inside UK parliament: 160 attempts daily to access online porn
Despite a massive crackdown on sexual misconduct within the UK Parliament, users on the in-house internet network tried to access online porn over 24,000 times in four months. Although most requested were blocked, the British parliamentary staff, including MPs, Lords and other contractors, attempted to watch banned content once every nine minutes, reported The Telegraph. Read on for more.
Ex-deputy PM Damian Green sacked for storing porn, sexual misconduct
This comes close on the heels of the former deputy British Prime Minister Damian Green's sacking last month. He was accused of storing porn on his work computer in Parliament, and touching a political activist without her consent.
'Data shows requests to access banned websites, not visits'
However, parliamentary authorities said most attempts were not deliberate and were blocked. They also pointed out that the data, a response to Press Association's Freedom of Information (FOI) query, showed requests to access banned content, and not visits to them. Notably, the figures also include personal devices used when logged on to Parliament's guest Wi-Fi. The parliamentary network reportedly has 8,500 computers.
Fewer attempts now made to watch porn in UK Parliament
Despite the staggering numbers, there has been a significant decrease in attempts to access pornographic content in the last few years. The UK's parliamentary filtering system blocked 113,208 attempts in 2016. In 2015, it had restricted 213,020 such attempts. Meanwhile, there have been at least 2,751,755 attempts to access blocked websites on the parliamentary network from January to October 2017, revealed another FOI request.
