The new www.hotline.ie website was officially launched on 2nd April 2008.
The hotline.ie service provides a secure and confidential environment for the public to report suspected illegal content encountered on the Internet.
The primary focus of the Hotline is to combat Child Pornography. Other forms of illegal content and activities exist on the Internet and may be reported using this service.
The Hotline, run by the Internet Service Providers Association of Ireland (ISPAI) since November 1999, is part financed by the European Commission’s Safer Internet Plus Programme. It is supervised by the Department of Justice, Office for Internet Safety (OIS), in cooperation with An Garda Síochána and is a member of INHOPE, the International Network of Hotlines.
Internet users can report content that they suspect to be illegal which they encounter on websites, unsolicited email, peer-to-peer file sharing networks, online forums, bulletin boards, blogs, social networking sites, newsgroups, online chat rooms or instant messaging.