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general internet news - 8 December
Digital divide closes: ITU
THE digital divide between rich and poor countries may not
be as bad as thought, the Switzerland-based International
Telecommunication Union (ITU) said in a report.
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,8072010%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html
http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20031205.gtnetdec5/BNStory/Technology
http://edition.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/12/05/digital.divide.ap/index.html
THE CYBER SUMMIT DEBATE ON THE DIGITAL DIVIDE
TVE's Earth Report series airing first on BBC World TV is
broadcasting a one-hour long TV debate from the World
Summit for the Information Society (WSIS) on 11 December
2003 in Geneva, Switzerland.
http://www.apdip.net/news/wsis-debate/default.asp
INVITE TO AN EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW EVENT AT WSIS: A Pioneering
Regional Human Development Report on Promoting ICT for
Human Development in Asia 2004: Realising the Millennium
Development Goals
An exclusive PREVIEW EVENT of a forthcoming Regional Human
Development Report on Promoting ICT for Human Development
in Asia: Realising the Millennium Development Goals will be
held at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)
in Geneva on 11 December 2003 at the ICT4Development
Platform.
http://www.apdip.net/rhdr/preview-event/default.asp
.cn - Loosen control of internet, Schroeder urges mainland
China must free up the internet if it wants to achieve its
goal of becoming the world's biggest web market in four
years' time.
http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=5383
China trains 'net police'
CHINA'S communist authorities are training "internet
police" to trace political dissidents using the world wide
web to evade state censorship, exiled dissident Xu Wenli
claimed today.
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,8052266%5E15322%5E%5Enbv%5E15306,00.html
.cn - Firms accused of aiding Chinese internet censorship
The Paris-based group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has
urged 14 companies, including Cisco Systems and Yahoo!, to
take a stand against any such repression
http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=5417
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/031204/323/eg85t.html
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/world/2003-12-04-china-boycott_x.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3290081.stm
.us - Ridge: Tech Cos. Must Help Fight Terror
Technology companies must cooperate in the battle against
cyberterrorism - or submit to government-imposed security
regulations - Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge and
other senior officials said Wednesday.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/7398119.htm
Net unprepared for cyberterrorism - US officials
This year's Blaster computer virus wreaked havoc on half a
million computers. But that's child's play compared to what
a real terrorist cyberattack would do, US homeland security
officials said on Wednesday.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/0,39020645,39118284,00.htm
Global force to police internet
Children who are being "groomed" on the internet by
paedophiles will be able to summon immediate online
assistance from police officers in a new worldwide force.
http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml;$sessionid$NEHTS4FEDIHWZQFIQMGSFF4AVCBQWIV0?xml=/connected/2003/12/03/ecntgroom30.xml&sSheet=/connected/2003/12/03/ixconnrite.html
.us - A Key Weapon to Thwart Cybercrime
Highly publicized FBI busts are nice. What consumers really
need, though, is timely information they can use to protect
themselves.
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/dec2003/tc2003122_5027_tc047.htm
U.S. warns business on lagging cybersecurity
U.S. officials have made it clear that private industry
must make progress in voluntarily complying with the Bush
administration's national cybersecurity plan.
http://www.iht.com/articles/120358.html
Thais seek to punish woman for putting flag on porn site
The Thai government will seek the extradition and possible
imprisonment of a Thai woman living in Britain for
allegedly displaying the Thai flag on a pornographic web
site, news reports said today.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/12/05/1070351779846.html
Porn problems for Australia Post
UP TO 50 Australia Post managers and staff have reportedly
been caught sending pornographic emails, some showing
children engaged in sex acts.
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,8062330%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html
http://www.itnews.com.au/storycontent.asp?ID=12&Art_ID=17357
.au - Porn hysteria strikes again
COMMENTARY--This morning's revelations in the Daily
Telegraph that up to 50 managers at Australia Post have
been caught sending pornographic e-mail is doubtless to
spark off yet another bout of anti-Internet hysteria, as it
was surely calculated to do.
http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/communications/story/0,2000048620,20281622,00.htm
.nz - Hacker accused of underage porn
Convicted hacker Jodi Jones is again embroiled in
controversy, this time for running a website that contains
pornographic images of young women.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3537687
Safer Internet
The latest edition (December) of Safer Internet, the
newsletter for Awareness Raisers in the EU Safer Internet
programme is now available online.
http://www.saferinternet.org/news/safer31.htm
http://www.saferinternet.org/downloads/Safer31.pdf
.nz - Censorship law changes introduced
People producing, trading or distributing objectionable
material such as child pornography will face up to 10
years' jail under tough new penalties in legislation
introduced to Parliament by Justice Minister Phil Goff
today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0312/S00022.htm
Sexual spam could spark lawsuits
Legal experts are warning companies to do more to stop
pornographic spam reaching employees.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3256814.stm
.eu - Verbände kämpfen gemeinsam gegen
Internet-Kriminalität
Gemeinsam gegen Kriminelle im Internet vorzugehen, das ist
einmal mehr das erklärte Ziel der beiden Verbände
Association of Internet Hotline Providers (INHOPE) und der
European Internet Service Provider Association (EuroISPA).
Dies sieht ein gemeinsames Memorandum der beiden Verbände
vor, das INHOPE-Präsident Thomas Rickert und
EuroISPA-Präsident Michael Rotert anlässlich der ersten
internationalen Konferenz INTERNET 2004: Safe or Just
Safer? in Berlin unterzeichnet haben. Ziel ist es vor
allem, Kinder und Jugendliche von unerwünschten Inhalten
aus der Online-Welt fernzuhalten. Nach eigenen Angaben
hatte INHOPE Mitte Oktober Operation Marcy, die groß
angelegte Polizeiaktion gegen Kinderpornografie im Internet
mit mehr als 26.500 Verdächtigen in 166 Ländern, ausgelöst.
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/tol-01.12.03-003
.de - BKA-Tagung: Kampf der Computerkriminalität
Zum Thema "Informations- und Kommunikationskriminalität"
hat heute, Dienstag, in Wiesbaden die dreitägige
Herbsttagung des Bundeskriminalamtes http://www.bka.de
begonnen. Die rund 350 Teilnehmer aus Polizei, Justiz,
Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft, Verwaltung und Politik sollen die
aktuelle Lage beschreiben und Handlungsnotwendigkeiten
herausarbeiten. Die Brisanz des Themas zeigt die Statistik
des BKA. Inklusive der Delikte mit Zugangsberechtigungen zu
Kommunikationsdiensten wurden im Jahr 2002 in Deutschland
8.970 Fälle von Computerkriminalität verzeichnet.
http://www.pressetext.at/pte.mc?pte=031202028
Web crimes ignites German debate on privacy laws
Germany is floating the idea of easing its cherished
privacy laws, designed in part to banish its Nazi and
Communist past, in order to combat rising Internet crime.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;?storyID=3937776
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/031204/80/eg9dk.html
EU demands 9 states add e-privacy law
The European Commission says it has started legal action
against nine European Union states for failing to write
into national law new rules to boost electronic privacy in
the 15-nation bloc.
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=3944285
.us - Judge dismisses Streisand's $10M suit
A Los Angeles judge Wednesday dismissed a $10 million
lawsuit filed by Barbra Streisand against a
multimillionaire who posted photos of her Malibu estate on
a Web site documenting erosion along the California coast.
http://edition.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Music/12/04/ple.streisand.reut/index.html
Net auction users busted over sale of war rifle
Two men who traded a 19th century rifle through an Internet
auction site have been arrested.
http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20031202p2a00m0dm004000c.html
Sites protest at changes to Google
Google has shuffled its internet search rankings, and in
doing so irritated internet merchants at just the wrong
time of year: when they rely on holiday shoppers to find
and visit their websites.
http://afr.com/articles/2003/12/04/1070351716070.html
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2747238a28,00.html
Google to courts--are we legal?
Aiming to pre-empt mounting complaints of trademark
violations, the search company asks a court to rule on
whether its keyword-advertising policy is legal.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5113673.html
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2003-12-04-keyword-showdown_x.htm
Web Site Removes Ad Selling Human Kidney
Auction Web site eBay removed a listing Thursday from a
British man who was attempting to sell one of his kidneys
to finance medical treatment for his sick daughter.
http://news.findlaw.com/ap_stories/high_tech/1700/12-5-2003/20031205024501_20.html
Wi-Fi to Face Interoperability Challenges
Interoperability among the various IEEE 802.11 technologies
will become "a real challenge" as the industry moves into a
phased program for deploying multimedia services over Wi-Fi
next year, industry executives said.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1403614,00.asp
Cutting the Cord (reg req'd)
Wi-Fi means travelers can plan their getaways to stay
connected to the Web or e-mail.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/07/travel/07wifi.html
Intellectual property piracy is form of terrorism: WIPO
chief
Piracy of the know-how to make products from machines to
branded baby shampoo is a form of terrorism and must be
stopped, the head of the World Intellectual Property
Organization (WIPO) said.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/031203/323/efqp1.html
.za - New Bill to Give Independent Communications Authority
More Powers
THE telecommunications industry will finally be governed by
a tougher, more independent and more skilful regulator if a
draft bill heading for Parliament is passed unchanged next
year.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200312040231.html
.ng - Financial Crimes: Nigeria Feels the Heat
The Paris based Financial Action Task Force TATF has
Nigeria on its burners and no one in Abuja is enjoying it.
The Task Force's grouse is Nigeria's perceived
slap-on-the-wrist treatment of perpetrators of advance fee
fraudsters. Large chunks of the 419 tribe are incidentally
Nigerians.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200312030694.html
Internet2 development on track
A University of Michigan professor is leading a nationwide
team to develop the next generation of the internet.
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,8052266%5E15322%5E%5Enbv%5E15306,00.html
Web gambling pioneer sets sights on Internet pot
Warren Eugene, a pioneer of Internet gambling, sees a
lucrative new on-line frontier in a Canadian law that
allows people with certain illnesses to grow and smoke
their own marijuana.
http://edition.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/12/05/web.marijuana.reut/index.html
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