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internet news - 17 January
UN´s International Conference On Information Technology
Started Today
Experts of 33 countries discuss in Luanda themes of
tecnology and information. The UN's International
Conference about " The Strenghtening of the Strategic
capacity of competitiveness in the Communication and
Information dominion" started Wednesday in Luanda, in a
session marked by a speech of the Angolan vice-minister of
Foreign Affairs, George Chicoty.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200301150604.html
UN summit could spark Net regulation talks
A major United Nations summit on the information society
due to take place in December could be the spark for
international talks on regulations covering cyberspace and
encompassing tax, freedom of speech, intellectual property
rights and privacy, the secretary general of the
International Telecommunication Union (ITU) said Monday.
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/03/01/13/030113hnwsis.xml
UN summit could spark Net regulation talks
A major United Nations summit on the information society
due to take place in December could be the spark for
international talks on regulations covering cyberspace and
encompassing tax, freedom of speech, intellectual property
rights and privacy, the secretary general of the
International Telecommunication Union (ITU) said Monday.
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/03/01/13/030113hnwsis.xml
Implementation Plan for the OECD Guidelines for the
Security of Information Systems and Networks
This implementation plan (released 6 January 2003) sets out
the OECD and its member governments' roles in implementing
the OECD Guidelines for the Security of Information Systems
and Networks. The plan aims to promote a global "Culture of
Security".
http://www.olis.oecd.org/olis/2002doc.nsf/LinkTo/dsti-iccp-reg(2002)6-final
Zittrain on the Aussie Internet ruling
Got some excellent e-mail regarding the Australian court
decision ruling that Dow Jones may be sued for libel in
Australia for a piece published by Barron's magazine, which
it owns. The court's ruling, in a nutshell, held that
because the piece was available on the Web, it was
"published" in Australia just as surely as it was published
in the United States. Click here and here for my earlier
posts on the ruling.
The most interesting e-mail comes from Harvard Law School
professor Jonathan Zittrain, whom I tweaked for not
reacting with what I believed was the appropriate level of
outrage. Here's his entire e-mail:
http://www.bostonphoenix.com/medialog/2002_12_08_archive.asp#85947538
"Don't play Big Brother" is business plea to governments on
Internet traffic
Business users and providers of communications services
have called on the European Union and governments to scale
down their storage requirements for traffic data to the
minimum necessary to fight crime and terrorism.
http://www.iccwbo.org/home/news_archives/2002/stories/big_brother.asp
The impact of Internet content regulation
Internet content regulations are increasingly prevalent.
For example, Reporters Sans Frontieres noted that at least
59 countries impose limits on the freedom of information
online. Excessive domestic regulation of Internet content
creates significant uncertainties for business operating on
this global medium, and has a chilling effect on commercial
communication.
http://www.iccwbo.org/home/statements_rules/statements/2002/internet_content.asp
ACLU Report: Privacy Rights Diminished
The United States is evolving into a Big Brother society as
technology advances and post-Sept 11 surveillance
increases, the American Civil Liberties Union said in a new
report.
http://www.bizreport.com/article.php?art_id=4035&PHPSESSID=5fbdb29e164b191dc67724ccbfd12d92
Privacy concerns balloon in Ireland
A new survey shows that Irish people are growing more
worried about the misuse of their personal data and are
losing patience with unsolicited SMS and e-mails.
http://www.electricnews.net/news.html?code=8894120
The Legal Gray Area of Child Porn
Music fans were shocked by headlines yesterday announcing
that guitar hero and rock star Pete Townshend was arrested
on suspicion of possessing indecent images of children.
http://www.techtv.com/news/news/story/0,24195,3414219,00.html
Child porn: Even surfing can mean jail
Even so much as clicking on a Web site featuring child
pornography could result in a jail sentence of up to five
years in the United Kingdom.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/01/14/porn.surf/index.html
http://europe.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/01/13/uk.pornlaw/index.html
Thought for the day: Dark matter on the web
Recent revelations about the extent of paedophile material
on the internet raise serious issues about corporate web
and e-mail policies.
http://www.cw360.com/bin/bladerunner?REQUNIQ=1042714836&REQSESS=GGEG400&REQHOST=site1&2131REQEVENT=&CARTI=118668&CCAT=2&CCHAN=22&CFLAV=1
Are Internet chat rooms a danger to our children?
With the growing use of Internet chat rooms by children of
all ages, the threat of paedophiles using the anonymity of
this medium to entrap minors has become very real indeed.
http://www.sundaytimes.co.za/business/technology/Tech3.asp
How to avoid net nasties
This week's news that rock legend Pete Townshend is being
investigated by police regarding internet child porn is a
timely reminder for parents to ensure a safe, appropriate
internet environment for their kids.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2195366a1983,00.html
Would-be killer, victim made pact online, police allege
A west Houston man who met a Wisconsin woman through an
Internet suicide chat room offered to kill the woman during
a sex act and hide her body in a Texas forest, a prosecutor
said Thursday.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/metropolitan/1731013
Safer Internet
The latest edition of the Safer Internet newsletter,
focussing on child protection issues and news online is now
available.
http://www.saferinternet.org/news/archive.asp
Pornography: Hot and Bothered
They don’t get a lot of sympathy, but pornographers are
ripped off, too, when Internet users swap pirated files.
Every day millions of photos and video clips are stolen off
for-pay porn sites and traded through Napster successors.
Yet as music-business officials sing dirges about lost
profits, pornographers see an opportunity.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/857720.asp
Iraq blocks Net access after email campaign
Iraq has cut off access to the Internet after the United
States launched an email campaign calling for military and
civil leaders in Iraq to turn away from President Saddam
Hussein, sources in the country have said.
http://www.itechnology.co.za/index.php?click_id=115&art_id=qw1042386301540B262&set_id=1
China blocks bloggers' sites
State control of the internet in China may have found a new
target with many "bloggers" unable to update their web
journals, apparently because of government restrictions.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993260
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=2046099
Libel laws used to curb web protests
Big businesses are using Britain's libel laws to shut down
websites set up by disgruntled customers or protest groups,
a report by the Government's advisers on law reform has
found.
http://news.independent.co.uk/digital/news/story.jsp?story=362634
Spam Confab: Hackers to Rescue?
They built the Internet, they invented e-mail -- and now it
may be up to them to save both from crumbling under the
weight of spam. Hackers head to MIT on Friday for the first
conference on junk e-mail filtering.
http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,57190,00.html
Supreme Court Upholds Longer Copyrights
The Supreme Court today decided a landmark copyright case
in favor of artists, writers and the entertainment
industry, upholding a 1998 federal law that extended the
life of copyrights by 20 years.
http://www.bizreport.com/article.php?art_id=4029&PHPSESSID=5fbdb29e164b191dc67724ccbfd12d92
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-980792.html
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,57220,00.html
Downside to Digital Rights Pact?
Critics fear consumers may be shortchanged by an agreement
between the technology and recording industries over the
future of digital copyright policy.
http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,57211,00.html
Feds: Power Lines Promising for Internet
The same power lines that bring electricity to televisions
and toasters may become the next pathway into homes for
high-speed Internet access, federal officials said
Wednesday.
http://www.bizreport.com/article.php?art_id=4031&PHPSESSID=5fbdb29e164b191dc67724ccbfd12d92
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/719670p-5279443c.html
Australia's broadband lags
AUSTRALIA has slipped to 18th place in broadband
penetration rankings amongst OECD countries, despite
increasing overall numbers.
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,5842463%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html
Report: China Web Surfers Swell to 59 Million in '02
The ranks of Chinese Internet users swelled by a whopping
75 percent to 59.1 million people by the end of 2002,
overtaking Japan as the world's second-largest Web
population, semi-official report revealed on Thursday.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=2055096
Lindows license offer targets schools
Software maker Lindows has launched a licensing program
that will allow educational institutions to install its
namesake operating system on an unlimited number of
computers for $500 per year.
http://news.com.com/2100-1040-980706.html
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