general internet news - 29 June

[David Goldstein <goldstein_david@yahoo.com.au>]

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CENSORSHIP & CONTENT REGULATION
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au: New Program to Help Educate Young People About
Internet Safety (news release)
A new program that will help Australian teachers
educate school students in the safe and responsible
use of the Internet was launched today.

http://netalert.net.au/01389-New-Program-to-Help-Educate-Young-People-About-Internet-Safety.asp

au: Internet Safety Education Moves To The Classroom
(news release)
Teachers in schools across Australia will soon receive
a helping hand in educating students about the safe
and responsible use of the Internet.

http://www.dcita.gov.au/Article/0,,0_1-2_1-4_119365,00.html

New Australia Law to Target Cyberspace Pedophiles
Australian police could soon be using fake Internet
identities to trap pedophiles trying to lure children,
the government said Friday. A bill waiting for
approval from the upper house Senate says adults
caught using the Internet to procure children younger
than 16 for sex, could face 15 years in jail.
 http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;?storyID=5511510

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/security/0,39020375,39158858,00.htm

http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/06/25/1088144968896.html

au: Gaming ready for net battle
THE nation's gaming giants are expected to lose their
fight to prevent offshore internet gambling, with the
Howard Government tipped to allow international
competitors.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,9947623%5E15319%5E%5Enbv%5E15306,00.html

au: NSW outlaws 'cybersnooping'
NSW will outlaw unauthorised cybersnooping on workers
using technology, including video cameras, email and
tracking devices, state Attorney-General Bob Debus
said.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,9932863%5E15342%5E%5Enbv%5E15306-15319,00.html

nz: Vodafone cuts off sex chat service
Vodaphone New Zealand has cut off access to an
explicit SMS sex chat service, saying safeguards
weren't sufficient to prevent it being accessed by
children.
 http://stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2954185a28,00.html

cn: Despite an Act of Leniency, China Has Its Eye on
the Web
Many among China's rapidly growing group of Internet
commentators are warning that the government is
quietly tightening controls and increasing
surveillance of Internet users.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/27/international/asia/27chin.html

Huang Qi awarded 2004 Cyberfreedom Prize
Reporters Without Borders on 22 June awarded its 2004
Cyberfreedom Prize to Huang Qi, who has been
imprisoned for four years for criticising the Chinese
government on his Internet site. The international
press freedom organisation also released its report
'Internet Under Surveillance 2004' - full version
available online - that monitors press freedom on the
Internet in nearly 60 countries.
 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=10810

Tunisia's Tangled Web Is Sticking Point for Reform
Walking toward an Internet cafe in this balmy
Mediterranean capital, Siham Bensedrine, a journalist
and human rights advocate, quietly points out the
secret police agent regularly assigned to watch her
building.

http://nytimes.com/2004/06/25/international/africa/25tuni.html

http://news.com.com/In+Tunisia%2C+the+Web+is+tangled+up+in+politics/2100-1028_3-5247639.html

us: US Court ready to rule on Net porn
Adult Web sites that have largely enjoyed freedom from
government interference could be in for an unpleasant
surprise tomorrow, when the U.S. Supreme Court is set
to deliver a long-awaited ruling on Internet
pornography.

http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/business/0,39023166,39151709,00.htm
 http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5248357.html

us: COPA Ruling Monday?
Published reports indicated late June 25 that the U.S.
Supreme Court is preparing to rule on whether the
Child Online Protection Act violates free expression
on the Internet, possibly as soon as June 28.

http://www.avn.com/index.php?Primary_Navigation=Articles&Action=View_Article&Content_ID=106829

us: Lawyer Attacked for Testifying that Images Can Be
Morphed.
An article appeared in yesterday's Cleveland Plain
Dealer about vicious attacks by local prosecutors
against a defense attorney--who I am pretty sure was
once a student of mine--for testifying as an expert
witness about how easy it is, using PhotoShop, to
morph a perfectly legal digital image into one that
appears to be child-pornography. Federal Prosecutors
in Oklahoma have even threatened him with arrest for
demonstrating to a jury how easy it is to morph such
images.

http://samsara.law.cwru.edu/blog/archive2/Lawyer_Attacked_Testifying_.html
us: Ex-prosecutor now toppling porn cases
Defense lawyers have discovered a loophole in Ohio's
child-pornography law, and a former assistant Cuyahoga
County prosecutor is helping them use it to clear
kiddie-porn defendants of criminal charges. Lawyer
Dean Boland has testified as a defense expert in three
child-pornography cases in Northeast Ohio and one
federal case in Tulsa, Okla.

http://www.cleveland.com/cuyahoga/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/1088156118139500.xml

"Reporters Without Borders": Free Internet in Ukraine
"Reporters without borders" announced a report on
obstacles to the free flow of information online --
"Internet Under Surveillance - 2004", which, in
particular, points at a difficult situation with free
Internet and Internet mass media in Ukraine.
 http://crime-research.org/news/28.06.2004/451/
 
us: Internet Governance -- What Does it Mean and What
Can We Do?
Eighteen experts from various fields gathered at the
Berkman Center last week for a summit on the thorny
and elusive subject of International Internet
Governance. Led by Berkman Fellow Colin Maclay
(pictured right), discussion included a wide range of
perspectives about the role of the United Nations, the
private sector, and national governments. But there
was consensus around several themes: education and
dialogue are essential. To that end, Susan Crawford,
Professor at Cardozo School of Law, will host a
conference -- The FCC Takes On the Internet -- to
promote debate on governance issues. A report on the
summit's decisions will follow in the coming weeks.

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/home?wid=10&func=viewSubmission&sid=374

uk: In the net we trust
Are we still too gullible when it comes to the
internet, asks technology analyst Bill Thompson?
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3838843.stm

Child Pornography on the Internet--What to do?
If you are a parent of a child between the ages of
10-17 it is likely that your child is receiving
unsolicited pornographic images. These are typically
sent by “bots” to everyone who enters a chat room
where children congregate. If you don’t believe this
then all you need to do is set up a profile describing
yourself as a 14 year old and start entering a few
chat rooms. It will not be long before you will start
getting bombarded by unsolicited instant messages
(IMs) with embedded hyperlinks that lead to
pornography. It also won’t be long before you receive
IMs from anonymous strangers asking you what you are
wearing and asking questions of a sexual nature. Some
of these anonymous strangers are adults disguised as
kids looking for vulnerable or inquisitive kids. When
this occurs you become a candidate for a more sinister
and illegal form of pornography–child pornography.
 http://crime-research.org/news/24.06.2004/446/

ca: Technology has the edge in war on child porn
It's not only illegal to distribute and possess child
porn in Canada but there are strict penalties if a
person is caught just viewing it.

http://thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1088374209375&call_pageid=968350072197&col=969048863851

us: Libraries poised for porn law
Janet Wagner's three children visit the main branch of
the Kenton County Public Library to use the Internet
at least once a week. Rachel, 10, Will, 7, and
Elizabeth, 4, play games and look up information about
their favorite celebrities, Wagner said.
 http://www.kypost.com/2004/06/25/cipa062504.html

fr:  Internet : un gendarme bordelais débusque les
cyber-pédophiles
Un gendarme de la section de recherche de Bordeaux est
devenu la bête noire des internautes pédophiles après
avoir mis au point, avec une équipe de développeurs
privés, deux logiciels pour traquer les diffuseurs
d'images pédophiles, qui ont débouché sur 280
interpellations en quelques mois. "J'ai commencé en
1998, j'ai été l'un des premiers en France", explique
l'adjudant Philippe Jarlov, "gendarme depuis 23 ans"
et "informaticien autodidacte".

http://filinfo.france3.fr/popup_afp.php?nameRegion=aquitaine&id=%20040625073628.hsxqiu76

de: Jugendmedienschützer beanstanden 250 Webseiten
Die Kommission für Jugendmedienschutz (KJM) hat eine
erste, seit längerem angekündigte Bilanz über die Zahl
beanstandeter Webseiten im Internet veröffentlicht.
Bei 250 von 275 geprüften Webseiten stellten die 60
Prüfgruppen der KJM Verstöße gegen den im April 2003
in Kraft getretenen neuen
Jugendmedienschutzstaatsvertrag fest, heißt es in
einer Mitteilung. Weitere 100 Webseiten stehen noch
auf dem Prüfstand; es würden, erklärte KJM-Sprecherin
Verena Weigand von der Bayrischen Landeszentrale für
Neue Medien (BLM) gegenüber heise online, "noch
weitere dazu kommen". Die Zahl der von der KJM als
"jugendgefährdend" oder "entwicklungsbeeinträchtigend"
eingestuften Rundfunkangebote lag im selben Zeitraum
mit 20 von 41 abschließend geprüften Angeboten weit
unter den beanstandeten Online-Angeboten.
 http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/48591

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ONLINE CRIME & ILLEGAL CONTENT
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us: FDLE computer crime center warns of phishing scams
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement Computer
Crime Center is warning citizens to be careful of
"phishing" e-mail scams that attempt to steal bank
information and raid a person's bank account.

http://www.venicegondolier.com/NewsArchive3/062604/vn10.htm

us: Spyware Bill Sailing in House
A House committee overwhelmingly approves a bill that
would ban installation of spyware without users'
permission. Still, the bill raises hackles among
software industry folks and allies in Congress.

http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,63983,00.html

Middle East not immune to cyber-crime, security
experts warn
Investment in fighting cyber-crime remains critically
low, and a general ignorance of its consequences is
leaving businesses across the Middle East vulnerable
to attack, network security experts Stonesoft have
warned.
 http://crime-research.org/news/28.06.2004/453/

E-mail comes under attack
Now they're fretting about its future because of a
growing belief that e-mail – the vaunted "killer app"
– is in deep trouble.
 http://www.crime-research.org/news/28.06.2004/452/

sa: Al Qaida websites blocked
Several Internet websites of the terrorist network "Al
Qaida" are blocked after liquidation of their
commander Al Mugrin and his three accomplices, Saudi
newspaper Al Jazeera informed Monday. According to the
cited announcement of law enforcement, police seized
computer facilities, CD-ROMs, software and a huge
archive besides seized weapons. Police said terrorists
always carried this archive with them in cars.
 http://crime-research.org/news/23.06.2004/443/
	
Terrorists using Internet to spread message
Al Qaeda-linked terror groups and their sympathizers
have in recent months made a big splash on the
Internet, making it their communications channel of
choice.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Northeast/06/25/terrorists.internet.ap/index.html

http://globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040625.gtterror0625/BNStory/Technology/

Spanish Police Bust Internet Dialup Fraud Group
Spain's civil guard on Wednesday arrested five people
suspected of defrauding Internet users by using hidden
software to divert their dialup calls to premium
high-cost phone numbers.
 http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;?storyID=5495849

Experts study developing Internet attack
Government and industry experts warned late Thursday
of a mysterious, large-scale Internet attack against
thousands of popular Web sites. The virus-like
infection tries to implant hacker software onto the
computers of Web site visitors.

http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2004/06/25/experts_study_developing_internet_attack/

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/06/25/internet.attack/index.html

Web attack disarmed at source
A Russian server harbouring malicious code that turned
major Web sites into vectors of infection has been
shut down.

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/security/0,39020375,39158858,00.htm

http://tvnz.co.nz/view/news_technology_story_skin/433093?format=html

http://www.itnews.com.au/storycontent.asp?ID=9&Art_ID=20280

ru: Court Convicts Obscene Text Messager
A teenager who sent an obscene text message to 15,000
cell-phone users has become the first computer whizkid
in Russia to be convicted of sending "spam."

http://reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=5504916

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PRIVACY
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OECD: Working Party on Information Security and
Privacy
SUMMARY OF RESPONSES TO THE SURVEY ON THE
IMPLEMENTATION OF THE OECD GUIDELINES FOR THE SECURITY
OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND NETWORKS: TOWARDS A CULTURE
OF SECURITY

http://www.olis.oecd.org/olis/2003doc.nsf/LinkTo/dsti-iccp-reg(2003)8-final

OECD: Privacy Online
OECD guidance on policy and practice
 http://www1.oecd.org/publications/e-book/9303051E.PDF

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INTERNET USE
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Belarus internet use up 7%
The number of internet users in Belarusian cities has
increased by seven per cent in the last year,
according to a recent survey.
 http://www.dmeurope.com/default.asp?ArticleID=2155

Germany tops porn Web hosting superleague
Germany is the Web host with the most - at least in
terms of pornography. The .de TLD boasts 10,030,200
pages of smut, beating the UK's 8,506,800 pages into
the runners-up spot.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/24/porn_hosting_league/

http://out-law.com/php/page.php?page_id=germanyhoststhemo1088164709

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Internet governance a hot potato for WSIS
Who should govern the Internet? That is a question
that will test the resolve and goodwill of delegates
at the preparatory meetings and the second phase of
the world summit on the information society (WSIS) in
Tunisia. The issue of Internet governance was bounced
around at the first phase in Geneva, but no resolution
was reached.

http://www.sabcnews.com/sci_tech/internet/0,2172,82385,00.html

tn: Preparing for the Next Stage of WSIS
A crucial preparatory meeting (PrepCom I) for the
Tunis phase of the World Summit on Information Society
(WSIS) is under way in Hammamet, Tunisia.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200406250766.html

Africa: UN Fund for Civil Society Participation in
WSIS in the Offing
Tunisia called today for the establishment of a
permanent United Nations Fund to ensure a wider
participation of international civil society in the
second phase of the World Summit on Information
Society (WSIS), and to help build their efforts in
bridging the digital divide between the developing and
developed countries.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200406250326.html

http://www.sabcnews.com/sci_tech/internet/0,2172,82359,00.html

tn: Opening of WSIS First Prepcom in Hammamet, Tunisia
The First International Preparatory Meeting of the
World Summit on the Information Society opened today
in Hammamet, Tunisia.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200406240769.html
 http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=10417

African Civil Society Participation at Tunisia
PrepCom1 Critically Low
Civil Society Organizations (CSO) attending the First
Preparatory Committee (PrepCom1) meeting of the Tunis
Phase of the World Summit on Information Society
(WSIS) expressed today a deep concern over the low
level of African participation in the meeting.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200406230870.html

New Directions for WSIS
As the second phase of the World Summit on Information
Society (WSIS) formally opens in Tunisia today, it
will be business as usual in some respects, but there
will be some significant differences from the meetings
held ahead of last year's Prepcoms in Geneva.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200406240592.html

Africa: Expectations for WSIS
Improved access to Information Communication
Technologies (ICTs), more discussion on Internet
governance, financing, and strengthening of African
civil society are some of the objectives that
organizations attending WSIS preparatory committee are
hoping to achieve.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200406240593.html

Tunisians are Africans too!
Hot words were exchanged and feathers ruffled when
some Tunisians thought that their identity as Africans
was being challenged at the Civil Society meeting in
Hammamet, Tunisia today.

http://www.sabcnews.com/sci_tech/internet/0,2172,82440,00.html

Die Schweiz arbeitetet für die zweite Phase des
Weltgipfels WSIS
Die Schweiz wird sich während der zweiten Phase des
Weltgipfels Informationsgesellschaft (WSIS) für eine
nachhaltige Sicherung des Erfolges der ersten Phase
des WSIS 2003 in Genf einsetzen.

http://www.newsbyte.ch/start.cfm?gruppe=NEWS&rubrik=alle&startid=60368&action=1

Weltgipfel der Informationsgesellschaft:
Menschenrechtsfrage sorgt für Eklat
Gestern kam es im tunesischen Hammamet bei der ersten
Vorbereitungskonferenz (Prepcom) für den Weltgipfel
der Informationsgesellschaft (WSIS) zum Eklat um eine
Stellungnahme der zivilgesellschaftlichen Gruppen zur
Menschenrechtsfrage.
 http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/48623

The Centrality of E-strategies in the WSIS Plan of
Action - APC
The term ‘e-strategies’ has gained widespread use over
the last few years in the debates on the role of
information and communications technologies (ICTs) for
development, following the United Nations Millennium
Declaration in 2000. E-strategies have been defined as
“plans based on the selection of scenarios and options
for applying ICTs to national development” . A similar
definition sees “an e-strategy as a shorthand for
policies and strategies intended to exploit ICTs to
promote national development. Other terms used to
capture the phenomenon include ICT policy and IT
policy”. APC gratefully acknowledges the funding
support of CIDA.
 http://rights.apc.org/documents/estrategies.pdf

Internet governance and the WSIS - APC
The purpose of this paper is to describe our current
understanding of the debate about Internet governance
in WSIS, and to examine the main policy issues that
are being considered in that discussion. It also
suggests opportunities for developing nation
stakeholders to contribute to the processes that are
defining the Internet governance landscape. The key
message is that there are opportunities for civil
society to engage and we must take them. Internet
governance is one of the most controversial and
debated issues to come from the WSIS process. It is
also a moving target in that the UN working group that
will help define what Internet governance is, and
identify the public policy issues involved is only
just being set up and we can only make a best guess at
its working methods and the scope of issues it will
consider. As such this paper is very much a work in
progress and may be modified over the coming months.
APC gratefully acknowledges the funding support of
CIDA.
 http://rights.apc.org/documents/governance.pdf

Financing the Information Society in the South: A
Global Public Goods Perspective By Pablo Accuosto
(ITeM) and Niki Johnson
This paper sets out to look at the question of
financing the provision of information and
communication technologies (ICTs) in the South, within
the context of the United Nations’ World Summit on the
Information Society, and advocates adopting a “global
public goods” perspective on the issue. The paper
first examines how the question of ICT financing has
been debated during the WSIS preparatory process and
the first phase Summit (Geneva, December 2003).
Particular attention is paid to Senegal’s proposal for
the creation of a “Digital Solidarity Fund”, and the
reactions to it of the different stakeholders –
governments, from both North and South, the private
sector and civil society – participating in WSIS. The
following section explores the potential for
addressing the issue of financing ICT expansion from a
global public goods (GPG) perspective. First the
authors provide an overview of what such an approach
means in conceptual terms, looking both at general
definitions of GPGs and the applicability of the
concept to ICTs. They then review the debate that has
been taking place around the specific issue of which
existing or alternative innovative financing
mechanisms might be used for GPG provision, linking
the proposed strategies whenever possible to the ICT
sector. Finally, in the conclusions the authors offer
a concrete proposal with respect to what we consider
to be the most appropriate financing mechanism for
funding expanded ICT access in the South. APC
gratefully acknowledges the funding support of CIDA.
 http://rights.apc.org/documents/financing.pdf

us: File-Trading Bill Stokes Fury
A new bill would make it illegal to "induce" people to
steal copyright materials. It could help the recording
industry fight piracy, but opponents say it targets
any device that could store or play pirated files.

http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,63969,00.html

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ONLINE MUSIC & P2P
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Australia may permit 'personal' music copying
A parliamentary committee has recommended Australia
follow the Canadian model, which permits the copying
of purchased music for personal use.

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/0,39020645,39158644,00.htm

us: Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing Risks Can Be Better
Disclosed (news release)
The Federal Trade Commission today told a Senate
Subcommittee that, although peer-to-peer (P2P)
file-sharing technology has benefits, it can create
risks to consumers and some consumers may not be aware
of these risks. Speaking to the Senate Commerce
Committee’s Subcommittee on Competition,
Infrastructure, and Foreign Commerce, Howard Beales,
Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection,
said the agency will work with the P2P file-sharing
software industry to improve risk disclosures to
consumers.
 http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2004/06/p2p.htm

us: Bill Would All but Ban P2P Networks
As anticipated almost a week ago, a bill that would
all but ban peer-to-peer file swapping services was
introduced in the U.S. Senate June 23 – a bill that
would make it simpler to sue KaZaA, Grokster,
Morpheus, eDonkey, and other P2P for "intentionally
inducing" copyright infringement.

http://www.avnonline.com/index.php?Primary_Navigation=Web_Exclusive_News&Action=View_Article&Content_ID=106763

us: Don't Beat Them, Join Them
With 40 million to 60 million Americans having swapped
music files over the Internet, taking a few hundred of
them to court as the Recording Industry Association of
American did this week is, as the legal scholar Randal
C. Picker has remarked, "a teaspoon solution to an
ocean problem." For a few months after the lawsuits
began last year, file sharing diminished, but it has
now rebounded. If lawsuits aren't the answer to this
problem, what is?
 http://nytimes.com/2004/06/25/opinion/25FISH.html

us: P2P Chief Blasts Hatch Proposal
The peer-to-peer industry's most visible trade group
blasted as "reprehensible" a new legislative proposal
to allow P2P networks be sued for encouraging children
and teenagers to commit copyright infringement.
 http://www.internetnews.com/xSP/article.php/3372701

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RESEARCH ARTICLES
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Internet Filtering in China by Jonathan Zittrain and
Benjamin Edelman
The government of the People’s Republic of China has a
longstanding set of policies restricting their
citizens’ exposure to information.1 The Internet poses
a new challenge to such censorship because of the
breadth of online content, the rapidity with which
sources of content can be moved or mirrored, and
because content sources are often remote from Chinese
jurisdiction.
 http://ssrn.com/abstract_id=399920

http://www.cbeji.com.br/br/downloads/secao/16.06.04.pdf

Surveillance Law Through Cyberlaw's Lens 
In this Article, I seek to contribute to the debate
over the appropriate scope of internet surveillance
laws in two ways. The first is to explore the
intricacies of the constitutional and statutory
frameworks governing electronic surveillance,and
particularly surveillance to acquire electronic
evidence. The second overarching goal of this Article
is to take some steps toward reconceiving internet
surveillance law.

http://www.cbeji.com.br/br/downloads/secao/15.06.04.pdf

E-Voting as the Magic Ballot? by Pippa Norris
Synopsis: In post-industrial societies the use of the
Internet for multiple functions in commerce and
government has generated debate about whether the
introduction of e-voting could reduce the costs of
casting a ballot and therefore promote electoral
participation. The argument developed in this paper
makes three claims: first, the evidence from the
distribution of Internet access in the 15 EU member
states confirms that, at least in the short-term, the
impact of introducing e-voting into elections to the
European parliament could probably deepen and worsen
the existing socioeconomic ‘voting gap’. Second, even
if we assume that use of the Internet gradually
‘normalizes’ across the European population, there are
still good reasons to be skeptical about any potential
revolutionary benefits from e-voting on turnout.
E-voting at home or work can be seen as analogous to
the use of voting facilities exemplified by postal
ballots, and the evidence suggests that the use of
such facilities has had little or no impact on
turnout. Instead, it is argued, the most important
role of information technology in democracy lies, in
its potential capacity to strengthen the public
sphere. As such the debate about e-voting may well
prove largely irrelevant to the primary political
impact of the Internet on democracy within the
European Union.
 http://ssrn.com/abstract_id=336542
 http://www.cbeji.com.br/br/downloads/secao/336542.pdf

E-Rulemaking: Information Technology and the
Regulatory Process Cary Coglianese
Part I of this article details the rulemaking process,
outlining the procedures agencies must currently
follow in developing new regulations and highlighting
some of the problems generally associated with
rulemaking. Part II considers ways that information
technology may be able to improve the rulemaking
process, as well as discusses some of the chief goals,
choices, and challenges associated with e-rulemaking.
Part III presents a cross-disciplinary agenda for
research intended to contribute to e-rulemaking’s long
term potential for improving government regulation and
enhancing the management and legitimacy of the
rulemaking process.
 http://www.cbeji.com.br/br/downloads/secao/500122.pdf
 http://ssrn.com/abstract=500122

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ca: Parties the same? Not on tech issues
With the federal election now just one week away,
millions of voters are sizing up the national parties'
positions on a wide range of issues. For those
interested in technology law and policy issues —
including copyright, spam, and privacy — the election
campaign has been a disappointment as technology
policy has barely registered on the election-issue
radar.

http://thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1087769408301&call_pageid=968350072197&col=969048863851

British Library to archive 'uncensored' web
A trial project to archive 6,000 UK websites was
announced on Tuesday by the UK Web Archiving
Consortium. The consortium, led by the British
Library, includes the Wellcome Trust, the National
Archives and the Scottish and Welsh national
libraries.

http://networks.silicon.com/webwatch/0,39024667,39121684,00.htm
 http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39158517,00.htm
 http://www.dmeurope.com/default.asp?ArticleID=2149

Europeans Delay Enforcement of Order Against Microsoft
The European Commission said that it would not enforce
a deadline for ordering Microsoft to start selling a
modified version of its Windows operating system.
 http://nytimes.com/2004/06/28/technology/28soft.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9561-2004Jun27.html

Mobile phones cut sperm count
MEN who regularly carry a mobile phone could have
their sperm count reduced by as much as 30 per cent.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,9972717%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

IE browser flaw prompts warning
Users of Internet Explorer are being urged to be
vigilant to avoid infection by a malicious computer
code.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3840101.stm

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au: Former teacher found guilty of child sex charges
After more than two days of deliberations, a Supreme
Court jury has found a former Brisbane school teacher
guilty of dozens of child sex charges.
 http://abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200406/s1141608.htm

za: Former teacher appears on child pornography
charges
A former Cape Town school teacher briefly appeared in
the Wynberg Magistrate's Court today on charges of
possessing child pornography.

http://www.sabcnews.com/south_africa/crime1justice/0,2172,82406,00.html

sv: Child porn distributor arrested
The police have managed to detect and detain a
37-year-old man distributing child pornography through
internet dating portals.
 http://www.slovensko.com/news/1429

us/gr: Part II: Lindsay's Ordeal
Franz Konstantin Baehring lured 14-year-old Lindsay to
Greece after communicating with her on the Internet.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/01/04/48hours/main323159.shtml

us: Child pornography suspect out of jail
A Crest Hill man accused of possessing child
pornography and secretly videotaping a youth in his
home is out of jail once again.

http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/heraldnews/city/j27courts.htm

us: Ex-prosecutor becomes expert witness in child porn
cases
A former prosecutor in Cleveland has a new role as
expert witness on behalf of child-pornography
defendants.
 http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_fullstory.asp?id=20238

us: Oostendorph found not guilty
A former Western Illinois University student was found
not guilty in a bench trail on Thursday. Jonathan J.
A. Oostendorph, 21, of DeKalb, was initially charged
with unlawful possession of child pornography in
January of 2002.

http://www.macombjournal.com/articles/2004/06/27/news/news4.txt

us: Defense Motions Rejected in Child Porn Case
Against Camden Judge
A federal court judge in Camden, NJ has rejected
several defense motions in the case of the disgraced
former Camden County judge who is facing child
pornography charges.

http://www.kyw1060.com/news_story_detail.cfm?newsitemid=38623

us: Man arrested in child porn case
Police arrested a 48-year-old resident Tuesday who was
wanted in California on child pornography charges.

http://nsnlb.us.publicus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040625/NEWS01/40625017/-1/news

us: Lawyer sentenced on child porn charges
A former Danbury lawyer was sentenced to eight years
in prison Thursday on federal charges of knowingly
receiving child pornography, prosecutors said.

http://www.wfsb.com/Global/story.asp?S=1968690&nav=1VGmOCHZ

us: Court upholds porn verdict
The state Supreme Court has upheld the
child-pornography conviction of a former Nashua man
who was arrested as part of an investigation so
sweeping that it led British police to question rock
star Pete Townshend, founding member of The Who.

http://nsnlb.us.publicus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040626/NEWS01/206260377/-1/news

us: Accused professor found hanged
A former Cal Poly professor who was to be tried next
month on child pornography charges was found dead in
his home Wednesday.

http://www.santamariatimes.com/articles/2004/06/26/news/local/news06.txt

us: Derry man charged in sting at playground
A Derry man was arrested Thursday at a local
playground after police say he went there anticipating
a sexual encounter with a boy. Joseph Reid, 32 is
charged with prohibited use of computer services and
possession of child pornography.

http://www.theunionleader.com/articles_showfast.html?article=39854

us: Man accused of child porn worked with kids in IW
A Portsmouth school employee facing child pornography
charges also taught dance in Windsor and was involved
in beauty pageants in Isle of Wight.

http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/southofjames/dp-34794sy0jun26,0,3127537.story

http://news.findlaw.com/ap_stories/other/1110/6-25-2004/20040625080008_07.html

us: EX-POLICEMAN PLEADS GUILTY TO RECEIPT OF CHILD
PORNOGRAPHY (news release)
Michael A. Battle, United States Attorney for the
Western district of New York, and Special
Agent-in-Charge Peter J. Smith of U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced Monday that
ex-police officer George Adymy, 45 of Hamburg, New
York pleaded guilty to one charge of receipt of child
pornography in violation of Title 18, United States
Code, Section 2252.

http://www.ice.gov/graphics/news/newsrel/articles/062204predator.htm

us: ICE ARRESTS TEACHERS ASSISTANT FOR CHILD
PORNOGRAPHY (news release)
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents
arrested Wayne Errickson, 35, of North Plainfield, New
Jersey at his home on Friday, June 18, for possession
of child pornography. Errickson, a United States
citizen, is employed as a teacher's assistant in the
North Plainfield School District, which has been
notified of the arrest.

http://www.ice.gov/graphics/news/newsrel/articles/062304predator.htm

us: Former Navy physicist Sentenced for Child
Pornography
A former Navy physicist is sentenced today for charges
he tried to have sex with a minor.

http://wjz.com/localstories/local_story_175185148.html

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