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general internet news - 9 October
.uk - Child porn 'endlessly recycled'
The NSPCC warned last night that children who have been
abused by people producing pornographic photographs for the
internet are likely to suffer life-long damage.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1058192,00.html
Safer Internet
The October edition of Safer Internet news is now available
in English, French and German. See:
http://www.saferinternet.org/news/archive.asp
Targeting Porn on Pirate Sites
District Attorney Tom Spota does not download Britney
Spears songs. But he thinks it's likely his college-aged
daughter exchanges tunes from Internet file-sharing
programs. So he was incensed when a confidential source
told his office that there was child pornography — lots of
it — to be found by simply typing Britney's name on such
services as KaZaA or Morpheus, Internet sites known for
facilitating music-file trading. The Suffolk County, N.Y.,
district attorney then mounted an investigation, which led
to the indictment of 12 people for possessing and promoting
child pornography.
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/US/CSM_pornfileshare_031006.html
British politicians call for overseas action on spam
The US Congress and Australian Parliament should adopt
anti-spam laws along the lines of Europe's, says a report
by Britain's All Party Parliamentary Internet Group. It
also calls for more powers for the Information
Commissioner.
http://www.out-law.com/php/page.php?page_id=britishpoliticians1065526664
Napster back, singing a new tune
Napster is playing by the music industry's rules this time.
http://www.iht.com/articles/112808.html
Spam watchdog 'needs more bite'
The government watchdog responsible for tackling spam needs
greater powers, an influential group of MPs has said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3167658.stm
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/ecommerce/0,39020372,39116979,00.htm
.uk - Virus Writers Probed for Terror Ties Cyber Cop
Britain's task force against high-tech crime is
investigating links between virus writers and extremist
groups as it prepares defenses for a possible attack, a top
law enforcement officer told Reuters.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;?storyID=3570209
http://www.itechnology.co.za/index.php?click_id=115&art_id=qw1065527282120B232&set_id=1
.uk - Crime Gangs Honing Net Skills, Says Cyber Cop
Organized crime syndicates have stepped up their presence
on the Internet, operating extortion rackets, child
pornography rings and elaborate financial scams, Britain's
top cyber cop told Reuters.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=3569567
Bill Gates Answers Canadian Cop's Child Porn Plea
A "really rotten day" at work in late January prompted a
just-about-had-it Toronto police officer to e-mail a
spontaneous plea to the world's richest man for help
fighting child pornography.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61552-2003Oct8.html
Call for release of cyber-dissidents
Reporters Without Borders urged French President Jacques
Chirac to lobby for the release of 38 jailed Chinese
cyber-dissidents when he meets Chinese vice-premier Chen
Zhili in Paris today.
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=8173
Reporters sans frontières demande à Jacques Chirac
d'intervenir auprès du vice-Pemier ministre chinois en
faveur de la libération de 38 cyberdissidents
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=8167
Año de China en Francia
Reporteros sin Fronteras pide a Jacques Chirac que
intervenga con el vice-Primer Ministro chino, en favor de
la liberación de 38 ciberdisidentes
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=8174
.au - Code calls ISPs into the balancing act
After spam perhaps the hottest legal issues concerning IT
in Australia are cybercrime and privacy. Authorities are
continuing to update legislation and reconfigure the
administration of online crime fighting. Naturally all
these changes have an impact on the meat in the cyberfraud
sandwich - ISPs and telcos.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/10/06/1065292519552.html
http://computerworld.co.nz/webhome.nsf/UNID/55158F7626EFCB62CC256DB800145EBF
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,7480640%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html
.au - Internet tick for Canberra
The Australian Government has held its position as one of
the world's best providers of internet-based services,
behind Singapore, the United States and Canada.
http://smh.com.au/articles/2003/10/07/1065292595247.html
And it's not online, but maybe there are online
implications...
.au - Free speech debate hangs on an insult
Insulting in public is protected by the right to free
political speech, the High Court heard yesterday, in a case
that could have wide implications for government powers.
http://smh.com.au/articles/2003/10/07/1065292596968.html
The Growing Conflict Between IP and Privacy Rights
Professor Geist's regular Toronto Star Law Bytes column
examines the growing tension between privacy and
intellectual property rights. The column assesses two
recent examples -- RIAA subpoenas against alleged file
sharers and the brewing dispute over the reliability of
WHOIS information.
http://shorl.com/gebesteprosibri
Microsoft looks set to enter search battle
Microsoft's ambitions to become a force in the internet
search business sent ripples through the stock market and
raised the prospect of a clash with Google and Yahoo!.
http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1059480409945&p=1057562182635
Lawrence Lessig: The BBC's lessons for America By Lawrence
Lessig
Greg Dyke, director general of the BBC, announced last
month that the broadcaster would make the contents of its
vast archive available to the public so long as any re-use
of that content was for non-commercial purposes.
(Commercial re-users will have to strike their own deal.)
The BBC Creative Archive would enable the British to
cultivate this national resource - for which they have
already paid - for educational, critical or comedic
purposes. The very structure will also make it much more
likely that commercial creators will be able to identify
content valuable to them, and then license that content
from the BBC. The idea is a brilliant response to the
extraordinary explosion of creative capacity enabled by
digital technologies, in light of the BBC's founding
mission - as Lord Reith put it - to "inform, educate and
entertain".
http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1059479642853
Conference on ISP Surveillance - 22 October 2003
Privacy International and the Foundation for Information
Policy are holding a half day conference on Wednesday, 22nd
October 2003 on the UK governments plans on data retention.
Scrambling for Safety 7 will have representatives from
government, civil society and industry debating the new
government proposals requiring communications companies to
monitor their users' activities and provide the information
to government bodies without a court order. Attendance is
free.
http://www.privacyinternational.org/conference/sfs7/
The Scope of Government Access to Copies of Electronic
Communications Stored with Internet Service Providers: A
Review of Legal Standards
The development of the Internet as a networked global
communications medium involving many companies along a
single transmission route, the expansion in the range of
transactions that occur “on-line,” and the increasing
amount of information now stored with third party “Internet
service providers” (ISPs) have produced a qualitative
change in the nature of communication, and accordingly, in
the nature and amount of information that may be exposed to
interception by the government. At the same time, modern
electronic communications services that transmit email, and
the wide variety of attachments that may accompany them,
are increasingly replacing the U.S. Postal Service as the
preferred means of quick and efficient information
delivery.
http://dogwood.circa.ufl.edu/~techlaw/vol6/Taylor.pdf
Avoiding Web Site Liability--Online and on the Hook?
The Internet has evolved into a significant forum for
advertising and the transaction of business. Nascent
companies now compete with corporate giants, without
expensive barriers to entry. National and worldwide
advertising is now commonplace for small business with
interactive communications with potential customers. The
worldwide Web permits companies to link their Web sites
with others in order to display information within their
industry for the benefit of their potential customers.
Unlike other media, a company''s Web site can now directly
link with the customer through e-mail, and permit payment
and credit verification with the click of an electronic
mouse. Many unforeseen legal issues have arisen as the
Internet has grown. Courts are just beginning to formulate
coherent policies for dealing with potential liability in
connection with e-commerce and advertising.
http://www.cbeji.com.br/br/novidades/artigos/index.asp?id=1971
DoubleClick Case Analysis
DoubleClick, a leading Internet advertising service
provider, bought catalog database provider Abacus Direct in
2000 for $1.7 billion. By purchasing Abacus, DoubleClick
sought to integrate its online consumer and Internet usage
information with Abacus' catalog consumer database to
create one consumer profile for each individual. Such a
database would span direct marketing efforts on the
computer screen as well as in the mailbox.
http://www.cbeji.com.br/br/novidades/artigos/index.asp?id=2017
Cryptography and Electronic Commerce
Kings, armies and school children have long used
cryptography to scramble secret messages and keep them from
prying eyes. However, the black art of encryption has
historically been of little interest to the public at
large. Before the advent of the personal computer and the
Internet, the public generally felt no need to encrypt its
communications. For those who did, there was no practical
means of achieving this end. Technology has changed that.
The personal computer, introduced twenty years ago1,
provided the public with an inexpensive and ubiquitous
device capable of efficiently enciphering information. When
the Internet sparked an era of email and electronic
commerce a decade later, the public finally began to
express a need for the kind of security that PC-based
encryption could satisfy. It is in this context that we
examine modern cryptographic methods and their role in the
electronic economy.
http://www.cbeji.com.br/br/downloads/secao/18.pdf
Schools transformed
Six years ago, when I began researching the impact of
computers in the classroom, it seemed like one-child,
one-computer was well on its way to becoming the dominant
model for learning. Many independent schools had
implemented notebook computer programs, and some schools in
the public system, including the one my children went to,
were following suit. The Victorian Government was about to
start issuing notebooks to all 37,000 public school
teachers in the state. In the US, hundreds of schools
around the country were picking up on the pioneering
efforts of Australian educators. Today I realise that, far
from being almost over, the computers-in-the-classroom
story has barely begun.
http://smh.com.au/articles/2003/10/06/1065292519294.html
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