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general internet news (child protection) - 4 May - part 1
uk: New UK sex laws come into force
Internet grooming will become a criminal offence: New sex
crime laws have come into force in the most radical reform
of sex offences in a century.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3675057.stm
us: FBI steps up Web hate group surveillance
The FBI has increased its monitoring of hate groups'
websites since the conviction of a white supremacist on
charges he sought to have a judge murdered, agency
officials said.
http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040428.gthateapr28/BNStory/Technology/
ie: Child-porn case against judge collapses
The Irish cabinet will grapple today with a legal fiasco
which has brought about the collapse of a high-profile
child pornography case against a judge.
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=515679
za: Former teacher guilty on child porn charges
A former school teacher was found guilty in the Wynberg
regional court on Thursday of possession of child
pornography, and nine counts of indecent assault on young
boys.
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=15&art_id=qw1083258901937B263&set_id=1
us: Nasty Malware Fouls PCs With Porn
Last Sunday, Maria DelGiorno gave up. She unplugged her
laptop PC and carefully placed it underneath a statue of
the Virgin Mary. "It was the only thing I could think of
doing," said the 67-year-old great-grandmother. "The
computer was filled with filthy things. It was
embarrassing. My grandchildren kept asking me why I was
looking at so much pornography."
http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,63280,00.html
kh: Disgraced glam rocker Gary Glitter back in town:
Cambodian minister
Disgraced 1970s rock star Gary Glitter, who was convicted
on child pornography charges in Britain, has returned to
Cambodia and bought property, minister of women's affairs
Mu Sochua said Friday.
http://www.utusan.com.my/utusan/content.asp?y=2004&dt=0501&pub=Utusan_Express&sec=Entertainment&pg=en_10.htm
nl: Private Mobile Releases New Mobile Chat
Adult mobile entertainment specialists Private Mobile BV
launched their new and improved Mobile chat application in
17 countries late last week. The new and improved chat
module offers six lingual chat moderators. Profiles of
chatters are easier to access and more detailed, resulting
in a better chat experience and making it easier for
moderators to offer more services, such as content, diaries
and video. Every keyword on a short code is now connected
to visual screens and profiles, so the girls know exactly
which profile they must handle when chatting with
end-users.
http://www.avn.com/index.php?Primary_Navigation=Articles&Action=View_Article&Content_ID=82816
uk: Net Porn Gets Trio The Sack
Three Rolls-Royce workers were sacked for downloading porn
from the internet, the firm revealed yesterday.
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/news/page.cfm?objectid=14192320&method=full&siteid=89488
http://www.out-law.com/php/page.php?page_id=threeporndownloade1083338679
ie: Child porn shock
A QUARTER of internet child pornography investigations in
Northern Ireland involve teachers or students in the
education system, a senior police officer revealed.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=516753
ca: Manitoba website helps police across Canada crack down
on child exploitation
When Child Find Manitoba launched a unique website two
years ago to crack down on child exploitation on the
Internet, it always knew the potential for expansion was
great.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/cpress/20040502/ca_pr_on_na/child_exploitation_website_1
us: Reporting Online Child Pornography
First, a warning: It's not illegal to accidentally visit a
child pornography site -- the mere act of viewing it is not
a crime -- but downloading it, even for the purposes of
reporting it, is.
http://crime.about.com/library/weekly/aa081101a.htm
us: Man gets 15 years for possessing child porn
A man on parole on a child pornography conviction received
a 15-year sentence Thursday in Fort Bend County for
possessing child pornography on a computer.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/2540471
us: Portland man pleads guilty in pornography case
A Portland man on Thursday pleaded guilty in federal court
to transporting child pornography in a case where federal
authorities seized thousands of illicit images, some of
them depicting bestiality and the sexual torture of
children.
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1083326686242960.xml
us: Board fills Roth's post
Crystal Lake-based attorney Mike Coppedge will fill Cary's
temporary opening for village attorney, created after
village officials decided to drop former attorney John
Roth, who faces charges of possession of child pornography.
http://www.pioneerlocal.com/cgi-bin/ppo-story/localnews/current/cg/04-29-04-278153.html
us: Utah residents arrested for child porn
A national child pornography investigation has netted the
arrest of 15 Utah residents for allegedly accessing child
pornography Web sites. They join six Utahns already
convicted of viewing Internet child porn and 700
individuals across the country that have been arrested as
part of the investigation, the Utah Internet Crimes Against
Children Task Force announced Tuesday.
http://newsnet.byu.edu/story.cfm/50057
us: Elite prep school headmaster admits kiddie porn rap
The former headmaster of a Manhattan prep school admitted
in court Wednesday that he had indecent online
conversations with people he thought were young girls and
had kept child pornography on a portable computer disk.
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/breaking_news/story/188247p-162958c.html
us: Investigator catches predators, child porn users
Investigator Mitch Kajzer calls up an Internet chat room,
where he poses as a 13-year-old schoolgirl.
http://www.southbendtribune.com/stories/2004/04/29/local.20040429-sbt-FULL-D1-Investigator_catches.sto
LookSmart buys Net Nanny for A$7m
NET searcher LookSmart has paid $US5 million ($6.95
million) for the business and assets of web filtering firm
Net Nanny.
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,9430354%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html
CyberGuard adds Webwasher as Web filtering jewel 28/04/2004
14:47:18
In a move to broaden its Internet security product range,
computer network security company CyberGuard Corp. agreed
Monday to acquire German Web filtering provider Webwasher
AG.
http://www.arnnet.com.au/index.php?id=1192434509
http://www.itnews.com.au/storycontent.asp?ID=5&Art_ID=19318
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