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general internet news - 23 July
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CENSORSHIP & CONTENT REGULATION
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uk: Internet Firms Invited to Porn-Blocking Summit
Internet firms are to be invited to a Government
summit in a bid to find ways to eliminate online
access to child pornography, Tony Blair said today.
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3234654
uk: Blair backs BT child porn prevention filter
Prime Minister Tony Blair told MPs yesterday that a
government-backed summit to work on preventing the
dissemination of child pornography on the internet
will be held in September.
http://www.vnunet.com/news/1156795
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1266686,00.html
Online Safety at School By Parry Aftab
Is it enough to supervise your children's online
activities at home, by setting and enforcing rules
such as no chatting, no instant-messaging people you
don't know, no filling out registration forms, and no
putting personal information on your Web site? Should
you also worry about their online safety at school?
http://www.cbeji.com.br/br/novidades/artigos/index.asp?id=3196
uk: Parents 'under-estimate' net risks
Parents are still largely unaware of the risks their
children take on the net, even though 75% of teenagers
use the net at home, says a report.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3910319.stm
uk: Porn pop-ups and spam hijacking UK kids' surfing
Teenagers are looking at dodgy content on the internet
and their parents don't know anything about it -
that's no surprise. What is surprising, however, is
that most claim to be unwitting victims of spammers
and pop-up merchants.
http://networks.silicon.com/webwatch/0,39024667,39122466,00.htm
uk: 230,000 child pornography website requests blocked
BT has said its new internet filtering tool was
blocking thousands of attempts to access paedophilic
websites every day.
http://networks.silicon.com/broadband/0,39024661,39122427,00.htm
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/07/21/npaed21.xml
http://abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200407/s1158220.htm
http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/07/21/1090089192812.html
uk: BT on child porn stats
BT insists that any attempt to identify the number of
people accessing illegal content on the Internet is
"pure speculation".
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/07/22/bt_ispa_cleanfeed/
Vietnam steps up control of internet
Vietnam has stepped up efforts to control the
internet, instructing internet service providers to
terminate contracts with cyber-cafes that allow
customers to access pornographic or anti-government
websites.
http://asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=12949
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,10202147%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html
http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/07/21/1090089201081.html
cn: Government blocks religious websites
Chinese web-users are denied access to a range of
religious sites based abroad, Forum 18 News Service
has found after a two-month survey of how far the
Chinese government's Golden Shield firewall, used to
censor the internet, affects access to religious
websites. Sites blocked include those related to the
persecution of Christians and other religious faiths,
the Dalai Lama, the Falun Gong religious movement, the
Muslim Uygurs of Xinjiang and a number of Catholic
sites, including the website of the Hong Kong diocese
and the Divine Word Missionaries in Taiwan.
http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=366
mv: Protest at Maldives net controls
Telecoms giant Cable & Wireless has been urged to use
its influence in the Maldives to help free jailed net
users.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3911373.stm
us: CT refuses to order criminal defendant to take
down website (from BNA Internet Law News)
A federal court in Alabama has refused to order a
criminal defendant to take down a website he
established about his case. While the court ruled that
it was had the power to issue the order, it declined
to do so on free speech grounds as well as due to the
defendant's Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights to
investigate his case by using the website to gather
evidence. The government had asked the court to shut
down the site. Case name is U.S. v. Carmichael.
lk: Legal history created with enjoining order on Web
publication
Colombo District Court Judge S. M. S. Samarakoon
issued an enjoining order yesterday (20) for the first
time in Lankan legal history restraining Yalith
Wijesundara from publishing and continuing to publish
the article "Monks life in danger -Kotalawela behind
the move" in the "Sinhala.net", Website for a
fortnight.
http://www.dailynews.lk/2004/07/21/new19.html
sy: Plea to President Bashar al-Assad to pardon five
jailed Internet users
Reporters Without Borders called today on Syrian
President Bashar al-Assad to release five imprisoned
cyber-dissidents, including Massud Hamid (picture), a
29-year-old Kurdish journalism student due to appear
before the supreme state security court on 25 July
accused of "belonging to an illegal organisation."
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=11013
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ONLINE CRIME & ILLEGAL CONTENT
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UK bans PlayStation 'chipping'
A High Court judge makes it illegal to use chips that
get around copy protection systems in Sony's console.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3915179.stm
us: Miami Herald drops pursuit of Yahoo e-mailers
The Miami Herald has dropped a court petition it filed
demanding that Internet provider Yahoo Inc. reveal
identities of three subscribers accused of sending
e-mails to the newspaper's employees containing
``malicious and defamatory statements'' about its
management.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/9153968.htm
World Vision Wants Internet Law
The World Vision National Director, Robby Muhumuza,
has called for strict laws to govern the use of the
Internet, saying it poses a threat if abused.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200407210080.html
The new face of cybercrime
You once could explain away Internet attacks as
destruction for destruction's sake. But many of the
juvenile delinquents of the 1990s have since graduated
from mere vandalism to hacking for monetary gain.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-5276318.html
uk/ru: National Hi-Tech Crime Unit smashes online
extortion racket
The UK's National Hi-Tech Crime Unit has worked with
Russian authorities to smash a racket responsible for
extorting thousands of pounds from online sport
bookies.
http://www.vnunet.com/news/1156769
http://networks.silicon.com/webwatch/0,39024667,39122474,00.htm
http://reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=5731903
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1266729,00.html
uk: Cottage shop games pirate, spammer and
pornographer jailed
A prolific counterfeiter was sentenced to
three-and-a-half year’s imprisonment at Cardiff Crown
Court this week, after he was caught with an estimated
quarter of a million pounds worth of pirated
merchandise.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/07/22/welsh_pirate_keelhauled/
us: Judge OK's drug defendant's Web site seeking
witness information
A federal judge has ruled that a defendant in a
federal drug case may post a Web site seeking
information on potential witnesses, whose pictures are
displayed under a "WANTED" banner.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/webguide/internetlife/2004-07-22-seeking-witnesses_x.htm
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SPAM
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Aust shuts down spammers
The Australian Communications Authority (ACA) says
legislation which came into force in April has largely
stopped the sending of local offensive and
pornographic spam from within Australia.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200407/s1159697.htm
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/0,2000061744,39154137,00.htm
Dutch regulator inundated with spam complaints
OPTA, the Dutch telecom watchdog, has reported
receiving 2,200 spam complaints - including 1,900 over
e-mail - in the two months since anti-spam regulations
went into force in the Netherlands.
http://dmeurope.com/default.asp?ArticleID=2374
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INTERNET USE
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au: Uni sued over privacy breach
A HIGH-PROFILE Aboriginal activist, who has received
threats allegedly from the Ku Klux Klan, is seeking
$140,000 from James Cook University after it published
his private address and silent telephone number on its
website.
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,10197236%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html
China internet usage surges
INTERNET usage in China at the end of June was up
sharply from a year ago but many of those scouring the
web are spending much of their time looking at spam, a
new research report said.
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,10202145%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html
http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/07/22/1090464787036.html
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ONLINE MUSIC & P2P
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Listen to the flip side
New research suggesting that file sharing has no
impact upon sales of CDs has, not surprisingly,
angered the music industry.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,1265840,00.html
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RESEARCH ARTICLES
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Trustwrap: The Importance of Legal Rules to Electronic
Commerce and Internet Privacy
This Article puts forward two claims and one proposed
new term. The first claim, buttressed by new evidence
in this Article, is that we have under-valued the
importance of binding legal rules in promoting
electronic commerce (“E-Commerce”). The second claim
is that, in light of the demonstrated helpfulness of
binding legal rules, the case for Internet privacy
legislation in the United States is stronger than it
was during the start-up period of E-Commerce during
the 1990s. The new term, which is central to both of
these claims, is the idea of “trustwrap”—the ways that
merchants can wrap their transactions in visible,
trust-inspiring ways when conducting E-Commerce.
http://home.uchicago.edu/~mferzige/Trustwrap%20-%20privacy.pdf
http://www.cbeji.com.br/br/downloads/secao/Trustwrap%20-%20privacy.pdf
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MICROSOFT & DEVELOPMENTS
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Net threat to ad media
Ford has discovered the cost effectiveness of the web,
and others will follow.
http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/07/21/1090089216261.html
Microsoft to fund anti-phishing group
The software giant will donate money and make a
full-time analyst available to an agency dedicated to
fighting phishing.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/security/0,39020375,39161302,00.htm
http://crime-research.org/news/22.07.2004/511/
us: Kerry accelerates in fundraising race
The Democratic challenger, John Kerry, has raised more
money in the last six months than President George
Bush, with the party embracing the internet to help it
cancel out what is a traditional republican advantage.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/0,13918,1266365,00.html
Microsoft plans biggest ever payout
Microsoft, the world's leading software maker, says it
plans to return more than $75 billion (40 billion
pounds) in cash to shareholders over the next four
years in the largest corporate payout ever.
http://reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=5723720
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3912975.stm
Investido caballero el creador del programa que
organizó Internet
Tim Berners-Lee, el científico británico creador del
programa que organizó internet, fue investido
caballero este fin de semana por la reina Isabel II.
El padre de la red de redes recibió el título en el
Palacio de Buckingham por su "contribución al
desarrollo global de internet".
http://www.latinoamericann.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=676&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
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CHILD PROTECTION ARRESTS
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us: Man forced to plead guilty to possessing child
porn
We write and publish stories on child porn. We speak
about monsters that abuse children having sex with
them, making, selling their images, videos and etc.
The story of "Jack" is different.
http://crime-research.org/news/22.07.2004/506/
at: Vatican to Investigate Pornography Accusations
Pope John Paul II announced Tuesday that he would
appoint a special investigator to look into
accusations of homosexual behavior and of downloading
child pornography at a Roman Catholic seminary in
Austria.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/21/international/europe/21aust.html
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/nationworld/sfl-aporn21jul21,0,4836140.story
us: Suspected Mall Rapist Gets Life for Child
Pornography
A man dubbed the "mall rapist" in Madison may have
committed a number of sex crimes here in Northeast
Wisconsin.
http://www.wbay.com/Global/story.asp?S=2071644&nav=51s7P2mD
us: Man facing 800 child porn charges
Computer repair could cost a Shelby man more than 600
years in prison on child pornography charges.
http://www.mansfieldnewsjournal.com/news/stories/20040722/localnews/892435.html
us: Huron East child porn bylaw heads to committee
stage
Huron East council took a step forward in the fight
against Internet child pornography on July 13, by
unanimously agreeing to form a committee to
investigate a unique child pornography bylaw.
http://www.seaforthhuronexpositor.com/story.php?id=110083
us: Investigators Interview Day Care Customers in
Child Porn Case
The owner of an East Texas daycare remains in custody
on child pornography charges. Agents with the Internet
Crimes Against Children Task Force arrested Jeffery
Hardy, 38, last Friday. He's being held on $50,000
bond.
http://www.ksla.com/Global/story.asp?S=2072112&nav=0RY4P3CD
us: School superintendent sentenced over porn
The former superintendent of schools in Leavenworth,
Wash., was sentenced Wednesday to serve 41 months in
federal prison for possessing hundreds of pictures of
child pornography.
http://www.spokesmanreview.com/local/topstory.asp?ID=16903
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