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CENSORSHIP & CONTENT REGULATION
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uk: Internet porn: Guilty till proven innocent
COMMENTARY--Is there an employee, you want to get rid
of but can't find a good enough reason to fire? Well,
thanks to the wonders of modern technology, there's
now an easy and hassle-free answer: their Internet
history--there's sure to be something in there that
will nail them. Confused? Then let's take a look at
the precedents.
 http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-5340221.html

uk: Watchdog reveals its surveillance powers
The UK’s OFT has published two codes of practice
setting out how it will exercise some of its new
powers to access personal data held by telcos and
ISPs. The powers will be used in the course of
investigating cartels.

http://out-law.com/php/page.php?page_id=watchdogrevealsits1093957353

au: Senate toughens net porn law
TOUGH new laws cracking down on internet child
pornography have been passed by the Senate.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,10625551%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

http://www.avn.com/index.php?Primary_Navigation=Articles&Action=View_Article&Content_ID=188556

http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/08/30/1093852182122.html

us: FCC to demand more kids' shows
The Federal Communications Commission plans to impose
tough new obligations on TV stations to air children's
programming on their new digital TV channels, two FCC
officials told USA TODAY.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/business/2004-08-31-fcc_x.htm

Child Porn Often Leads to Abuse
People who collect child pornography often get in more
trouble. Law enforcement officials say possessing porn
often leads to committing child abuse.
 http://www.wcjb.com/news.asp?id=10449

uk: Survey Shows One-Third of Employees Still Send
Sexual Content to Colleagues and Download Pornography
at Work (news release)
SurfControl released a three-country survey showing
that one-third of employees continue to use business
e-mail to send sexual content to colleagues and others
outside the company, while one-third also use Internet
access at work to download pornography.
 http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040901/dcw010_1.html

us: City officials closely watching their employees'
computer use
As another local city employee is charged for
downloading child pornography on his work computer,
city officials try to put a stop to such crimes.

http://www.woodtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2242047&nav=0RceQR2o

au: Manhunt violence reviewed (video game)
A GRUESOME computer game in which players are rewarded
for the viciousness with which they kill opponents has
been referred to the Classification Board for review
by the Federal Government.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,10635600%5E15319%5E%5Enbv%5E15306,00.html

Blocking Internet Searches in China
Today the OpenNet Initiative released a new report
about Internet censorship in China. While a number of
studies have established that China blocks search
results about certain political, cultural, and
religious subjects (see this report, for example), the
new study takes the investigation a step further by
looking at China's filtering of the Google cache.
Caching -- the process of taking snapshots of webpages
and archiving the data -- is a common practice for
search engines like Google. As the report notes,
accessing the cache is a "well known method of ad hoc
circumvention of Internet censorship." ONI researchers
from the Citizen Lab, the University of Cambridge, and
the Berkman Center found that China's filtering
mechanisms interrupt any search specifically targeted
at cached data, both Google and non-Google and
regardless of domain name. A story in today's Wall
Street Journal (subscription required) broke the news
of the ONI report, and another report appeared on
Slashdot.

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/home?wid=10&func=viewSubmission&sid=421

uk: Empleados públicos despedidos en Gran Bretańa por
utilizar su pc para visualizar contenidos
pornográficos
19 son los empleados despedidos y 200 a los que les
han sido impuestas sanciones disciplinarias, y a todos
por visualizar a través de la Red material
pornográfico en el Departamento de Trabajo y
Pensiones.

http://delitosinformaticos.com/noticias/109386334366222.shtml

us: Luring the lewd - Man on crusade to keep children
safe from online sexual predators
Some days he poses as a 15-year-old blonde, and other
days he's a naive 12-year-old exploring the Internet.
But Kenny Tipton is really a 37-year-old airline pilot
who spends his off days trying to clean up the
Internet and keep it safe for his child and yours.

http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/livingtoday/040829/tipton.shtml

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LEGAL AND SECURITY
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Pop-up purveyor Claria settles suits
Adware company Claria has quietly settled litigation
brought by Wells Fargo, Quicken Loans and other online
businesses, which charged that its delivery of pop-up
ads violated their trademarks, CNET News.com has
learned.
 http://news.com.com/2100-1024_3-5333003.html

id: First cyber crime trial leaves court puzzled
"It's a bird! No, it's a plane. Wait, it could be a
cyber crime. But as nobody sees it, it may not exist."
 http://asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=14138

us: Cybercops keep an eye on the Web
Within moments of entering an online chat room, Scott
Garland was approached by a number of chatters. They
wanted to know what he looked like, how old he was.

http://www.delawareonline.com/newsjournal/local/2004/08/30cybercopskeepan.html

Computer crime costs $1 billion to Microsoft
Microsoft Corp. are to spend $1bn more on the
improvements of Windows OS protection from hackers,
viruses and internet scammers.
 http://crime-research.org/news/01.09.2004/601/

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POLICY
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au: Australian cybercops win new powers
An international cyberpolicing network setting out to
snare paedophiles

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/security/0,39020375,39165028,00.htm

http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/08/31/1093852216926.html

au: Privacy concern over email law
A NEW federal law could allow authorities easy access
to private, stored emails without a warrant, according
to civil libertarians.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,10613440%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/08/29/1093717820012.html

nz: Marketers oppose anti-spam bill
The first organised opposition to a proposed anti-spam
bill has emerged, with the Sales & Marketing Institute
of New Zealand issuing a statement disputing the need
for legislation.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3017771a11275,00.html

cn: China Setting Up Principles For Modern Copyright
Protection
A representative from the National Copyright
Administration of China disclosed recently that China
has gradually been setting up a relatively complete
set of principles for modern copyright protection
which is fitting not only for China's own socialism
economic development, but also accords to the
international copyright rules.

http://www.chinatechnews.com/index.php?action=show&type=news&id=1693

kr: Law Against Internet Hacking
Financial companies will take responsibility for
inconveniences customers encounter from Internet
hacking next year.

http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/biz/200408/kt2004083019035811910.htm

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SPAM
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'DNA analysis' spots e-mail spam
Few would have thought that when Crick and Watson
discovered DNA, it would help in making a tool to
fight spam.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3584534.stm

Spam tide drowns email
Email's usefulness is being downgraded because of the
effort needed to filter out spam, says IDC.

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/networks/0,39020345,39165256,00.htm

Spammers using sender authentication too, study says
New technology for identifying the sender of e-mail
messages has not been widely adopted despite backing
from software giant Microsoft Corp. and may not be
effective at stopping unsolicited commercial e-mail,
otherwise known as spam, according to a survey by
e-mail security company CipherTrust Inc.

http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/08/31/HNspammerstudy_1.html

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INTERNET USE
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uk: Friends disunited: rise in divorce blamed on
internet and texting
The growth of text messaging and popularity of
internet reunion sites were blamed yesterday for a
rise in the divorce rate, which is at a seven-year
high.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=557059

http://reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=PB31XF5PJMCFUCRBAEOCFFA?type=internetNews&storyID=6123121
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3616136.stm

Internet still growing at 35
THIRTY-five years after scientists linked two bulky
computers using a two metre cable to test a new way
for exchanging data, what would ultimately become the
internet remains a work in progress.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,10613440%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

us: Old Rumors of Gay Sex Prove Powerful on Web
The blogger could offer no indisputable proof that
Rep. Edward L. Schrock of Virginia ever indulged in or
solicited gay sex. Yet he put the claim on his Web
site, and over two weeks the years-old rumor took on a
life of its own.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50388-2004Aug31.html

uk: Man hammering away his friendship
A Scottish man is putting his friendship under the
hammer in an internet auction.

http://tvnz.co.nz/view/news_technology_story_skin/445023?format=html

The internet café turns 10
The world's best places to surf the web have been
unveiled in the Yahoo! Mail Internet Café Awards,
marking the 10-year anniversary of the first internet
café.

http://networks.silicon.com/webwatch/0,39024667,39123601,00.htm

Yahoo awards world's best cybercafes
A San Francisco laundromat may be the one of the
world's most unusual places to surf the Internet but a
sleek club on Moscow's Red Square is definitely the
sleekest, according to a Yahoo survey of the globe's
best cybercafes.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200409/s1189662.htm

nl: 'Dam Wi-Fi - Amsterdam to get blanket coverage
Amsterdam's web surfers could soon be liberated from
their home computers and internet cafés as a start-up
company plans to make their city the first European
capital where laptops can hook up anywhere to the web.

http://networks.silicon.com/mobile/0,39024665,39123579,00.htm

us: Philadelphia mulls wireless society
For about $10 million, city officials believe they can
turn all 135 square miles of Philadelphia into the
world's largest wireless Internet hot spot.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/09/01/wireless.cities.ap/index.html

http://news.com.com/City+of+brotherly+love+may+embrace+Wi-Fi/2100-1039_3-5342286.html

The trouble with e-voting
Considering all the controversy about hanging chads
and butterfly ballots four years ago, you would think
a company that makes electronic voting machines would
have a banner year in 2004.

http://money.cnn.com/2004/08/30/technology/election_diebold/index.htm

Russian scientists take aim at Internet
Russian scientists once dedicated to destroying the
west through nuclear warfare are turning their deadly
talents instead to designing games for the Internet in
the name of world peace.

http://reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=PB31XF5PJMCFUCRBAEOCFFA?type=internetNews&storyID=6124456

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WSIS
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Információs csúcstalálkozó – er&#337;próbák
A 2005-ben sorra kerül&#337; második információs
világtalálkozó (WSIS II) el&#337;készületi
konferenciáin továbbra is parázs vitákra számíthatunk.
Mer&#337;ben eltér&#337; a tárgyaló felek álláspontja
például a szólásszabadság kérdésében.
 http://www.fn.hu/cikk.php?id=28&cid=85872

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ONLINE MUSIC & P2P
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More download turmoil
Satellite and Net radio users now accused.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2004-09-01-braodcast-copy-dustup_x.htm

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COMMENT, MICROSOFT & DEVELOPMENTS
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Building a better mouse
First laser-based computer rodent tough to confuse,
works hard.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/gear/computing/2004-09-01-laser-mouse_x.htm

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PROTECTION OF MINORS
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us: Lincoln man sentenced to 33 months for possession
of child pornography
A Lincoln man has been sentenced by U.S. District
Judge Karon Bowdrie to 33 months in federal prison for
possession of child pornography, according to a press
release issued last week by the U.S. Attorney's
Office.

http://www.dailyhome.com/news/2004/dh-talladegacounty-0831-cnorwood-4h30v1456.htm

us: Porn case could end in plea deal
A jury trial will be set for a Port Huron man facing
25 felony charges related to child pornography,
although a plea deal may be reached.

http://www.thetimesherald.com/news/stories/20040831/localnews/1149386.html


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