general internet news - September 9 - part 1: censorship & contentregulation; legal & security; policy

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

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CENSORSHIP & CONTENT REGULATION
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us: Court Rules Against Pennsylvania Law That Curbs
Child-Pornography Sites
The decision is a victory for free speech and
Internet-rights advocates who argued that although the
law was well-intentioned, its effects were
unconstitutional.

http://nytimes.com/2004/09/11/technology/11filter.html

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/09/10/financial1136EDT0095.DTL

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13111-2004Sep10.html

http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/09/10/online.porn.ap/index.html

http://reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=6208829
 http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2004_09.php#001898

http://news.findlaw.com/nytimes/docs/cyberlaw/cfdtpappert91004opn.pdf
Memorandum Decision in Pennsylvania Internet Blocking
Law Case  

http://www.cdt.org/speech/pennwebblock/20040910memorandum.pdf
Court Order in Pennsylvania Internet Blocking Law Case
 

http://www.cdt.org/speech/pennwebblock/20040910order.pdf
Web-Sperren in Pennsylvania verfassungswidrig
 http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/50964

us: Internet Gives Teenage Bullies Weapons to Wound
>From Afar (reg req'd)
The fight started at school, when some eighth-grade
girls stole a pencil case filled with makeup that
belonged to a new classmate, Amanda Marcuson, and she
reported them.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/26/education/26bully.html?ex=1251172800&en=75fcc217518a0daf&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland

us: Cyberbullies' torments have much wider reach
To grown-ups, the word bully may evoke the memory of a
sixth-grader who looked old enough to vote or a
13-year-old who advertised a classmate's phone number
"for a good time" on the girls' bathroom wall.
 http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/9482574.htm
 
http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/living/9628502.htm

us: Rise of the cyberbully demands new rules
Back in the mid-'80s, I thought I was clever for
writing a very simple program on my dad's Apple
computer. The outcome was an endless-loop printout,
several pages long, of crass statements about a
classmate that I took to school and randomly dropped
in the halls. I was soon nabbed by the principal and
suspended. Who knows what kind of trouble I would've
gotten myself into if I'd had access to today's
high-tech gadgets, which are more powerful and
ubiquitous than previous generations of practical
jokers ever dreamed of.
 http://csmonitor.com/2004/0510/p09s01-coop.htm

us: Internet bullying
For one middle-school girl it was a rumor, circulated
via text messaging, that she had contracted SARS while
on a trip to Toronto. She returned to school and found
nobody would come near her.
 http://csmonitor.com/2003/1230/p11s01-legn.htm

us: When kids turn cyberbullies
IMs, blogs and bash boards are being used to harass
others; experts have ideas on why it’s happening and
how to stop it
The biting words in the e-mail took the Great Neck
mother by surprise. Two years ago when Linda Ullman's
son was just 10, she says he showed her a nasty e-mail
written about him that was laced with expletives and
sent to his classmates behind his back. She says her
son told her it was forwarded to him by another
classmate and that it had been written by his
10-year-old best friend. The nasty e-mail had been
triggered by an argument the two had at school that
day.

http://www.newsday.com/news/education/sbp/ny-sbp_40104,0,2662794.story

us: Removing the Bully Factor
Not only are bullies everywhere, they come in more
than one flavor. And, according to recent research,
many kids like the taste of being a bully.

http://connectforkids.org/resources3139/resources_show.htm?doc_id=237435

au: Labor unpacks internet policy
FEDERAL Labor is to broaden the role of anti-porn
agency NetAlert to include initiatives aimed at
reducing identity theft and further protect consumers
from spam.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,10714912%5e15306%5e%5enbv%5e15306,00.html

Internet prods Asia to open up
As the Internet sweeps across Asia, it is bringing
with it a strong challenge to the region's
authoritarian governments: a freer exchange of
information and ideas.
 http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0909/p06s01-woap.html

bd: Cyber cafés go slow under sharp police watch
Cyber cafés in Dhaka have called on their clients not
to use their services to threaten political leaders
and foreign organisations here, a concern that came to
a head after an email sender threatened to kill Leader
of the Opposition Sheikh Hasina.

http://www.thedailystar.net/2004/09/08/d409082502126.htm

za: Computer Crime Against Kids Escalates
Less than 4% of rape cases are successfully
prosecuted, the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA)
has told a discussion on computer crime against
children in Cape Town.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200409091120.html
 http://crime-research.org/news/10.09.2004/627/

http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/internet/2004/0409091106.asp?S=Security&A=SEC&O=FRGN

cn: China shuts popular protest website (reg req'd)
China has shut down a popular website which helped
members of the public report complaints to government
authorities, local media reports said on Thursday.

http://theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/10/1094530802036.html

ir: Three journalists arrested in continued crackdown
against Internet
Reporters Without Borders said it was outraged at the
latest escalation in a crackdown against news on the
Internet as three journalists contributing or having
contributed to a reformist site were arrested on 7-8
August. They were latest victims of a wave of arrests
and closures launched by Iranian judicial authorities
against news sites with reformist leanings.
 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=11362

Video phones earn Saudi women a thrashing (reg req'd)
Two Saudi women were badly beaten by other female
guests at a wedding party in the kingdom when they
were seen using a mobile phone to photograph the
segregated celebration, a newspaper reported Tuesday.

http://theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/08/1094530666747.html

SAFT Public Report now available for download
The SAFT surveys show that children are sophisticated
users, exploring the many services and tools that make
up what we call the Internet. They use online
facilities for fun, schoolwork, hobbies, chat, games
and e-mail. They tell us how they think that
schoolwork gets better when they use online services -
but also how they would like to have more information
in schools on how to perform good searches. Parents
have outlined their greatest fears about children’s
use of the Internet and electronic games - but also
their wish for their children’s positive use of this
great interactive tool. At the same time they have
told us how they believe that their children can
protect themselves online, but they have not
themselves talked to them about this.
 http://www.saftonline.org/latestnews/1785/

Porn prevention on the Net
The Internet has appeared to be a convenient means of
communication between paedophiles. Computer
technologies open up wide opportunities for perverts
to look for and seduce juvenile. Molesters earn more
than 3bn EURO only in Europe, according to expert
evaluations. Interpol's data state that main porn
producers are Ukraine and Russia along with Taiwan and
Vietnam.
 http://crime-research.org/news/10.09.2004/626/

us: SVC Financial Services' CEO Chris Haigh to Provide
Recommendations For Anti-Child-Pornography Initiative
at FBI's Peer to Peer Summit
SVC Financial Services announced that SVC President
and Chief Executive Officer Chris Haigh will be a
featured speaker later this month at the FBI's Peer to
Peer Summit
 http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2004/Sep/1071656.htm

Task Force To Stop Online Predators Successful, But
Needs More Staff, Funds
A task force created last May to crack down on child
pornography and exploitation is fighting an uphill
battle. Crimes are on the increase and the task force
says it could use some help and more funding. WAVE 3's
Jeff Tang reports.

http://www.wave3.com/Global/story.asp?S=2275622&nav=0RZFQhkB

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LEGAL AND SECURITY
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au: Student sent to trial on child threat
A UNIVERSITY student accused of sending a hoax e-mail
to police about missing teenager Daniel Morcombe has
been fined $1500 for possessing child pornography on
his computer.

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,10730779%255E421,00.html

au:  Net bullies drive boy to suicide
BULLYING is spreading from the playground into
cyberspace. Children and teenagers are using the
Internet and mobile phones to victimise other
youngsters, says an international expert who will
highlight the scale of the problem at a conference in
Brisbane next weekend.

http://thesundaymail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,10734051%255E2765,00.html

us: CDT Urges Caution on Wiretap Mandates for Internet
Testifying before the House Subcommittee on
Telecommunications and the Internet, CDT executive
Director Jim Dempsey warned that the FBI is the wrong
agency to put in charge of technology design for the
broadband Internet, and that the 1994 CALEA statute is
the wrong framework for addressing law enforcement
concerns about tapping communications over the
Internet. CDT Testimony:
 http://www.cdt.org/testimony/20040908dempsey.shtml

de: Teen charged over Sasser virus
The alleged creator of the virulent Sasser virus has
been formally charged.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3640506.stm

http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/04/09/ap_3090804.asp?p=1

de: Internet-Kriminalität in Deutschland nimmt weiter
zu
Die Internet-Kriminalität in Deutschland nimmt nach
Erkenntnissen der Staatsanwaltschaft Cottbus deutlich
zu. Die Zahl der Ermittlungsverfahren gegen erkannte
Beschuldigte habe sich von etwa 500 im Jahr 2001 auf
bisher 1800 in diesem Jahr erhöht, sagte Thomas Schell
von der bundesweit einzigen
Schwerpunktstaatsanwaltschaft für
Internet-Kriminalität am Freitag in Cottbus. Für 2004
insgesamt rechne er mit mehr als 2000 Verfahren.
 http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/50954

http://www.zdnet.de/news/security/0,39023046,39125865,00.htm

uk: ASA rules against Internet directory
A misleading attempt to get companies to pay to be
listed on the Web has fallen foul of the Advertising
Standards Authority

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/legal/0,39020651,39166154,00.htm

http://out-law.com/php/page.php?page_id=internetdirectorym1094656129

us: Man Finds Child Porn On 'New' Computer
A Seattle man says he found child pornography on a
computer he bought for his daughter, KIRO 7 Eyewitness
News reported.
 http://www.kirotv.com/money/3718358/detail.html

au: Email crackdown beyond a joke Premium (sub req'd)
Companies appear to be cracking down on the flood of
office emails containing jokes, cartoons and
pornography in an attempt to get employees to focus on
their work.

http://afr.com/premium/articles/2004/09/10/1094789682535.html

jp: Day in the life of a cyber-sleuth
Masaya Orita's job is to collar slanderers, stalkers
and vendors of illicit materials. He does this not by
cruising the streets, but by spending countless hours
staring at a PC screen.

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fd20040905tc.htm

au: International experts boost local skills in fight
against cyber-crime
Some of the world’s most respected cyber-crime and
computer forensics experts are heading to Australia
next month to bolster local skills in the fight
against high-tech crime.

http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1535477439

PROTECTING YOURSELF AGAINST IDENTITY THEFT? (news
release)
Identity Theft GraphicTake a recent case in point: The
president of a Florida bulk e-mail company was
recently indicted on charges of illegally hacking into
the database of another company--one that operates one
of the world's largest computer repositories of
financial, corporate, and personal data from major
banks, credit card companies, corporations, and the
U.S. Government. A virtual treasure trove of personal
data on Americans--and closely protected.
 http://www.fbi.gov/page2/sept04/idtheft090304.htm

us: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT SUES TO HALT ALLEGED INTERNET
TAX SCAM
The Justice Department today asked a federal court in
Atlanta to bar Jonathan D. Luman, of Lovejoy, Georgia,
from selling an alleged tax scam via the Internet.
According to the civil injunction complaint, Luman
operates websites that sell bogus documents, including
a manual known as the “Tax Buster Guide,” containing
forms which customers are told to submit to the IRS in
lieu of tax returns. Luman allegedly told customers
that the documents would allow them to reclaim their
“sovereign citizen” status and eliminate liability for
federal income taxes. The complaint contends that the
manual, which is sold for $49.95 with blank forms and
for $299.00 with completed forms, has been sold to
customers in 41 states.

http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2004/September/04_tax_605.htm

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POLICY
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eu: Representative on Freedom of the Media: Conference
on Guaranteeing Media Freedom on the Internet
The conference is a follow-up to the 2003 Amsterdam
Internet Conference. More than 20 international
experts will lecture. Interested representatives from
IGOs, NGOs, academia, media and industry are invited
to attend. Eventually a "Freedom of the Media -
Internet Cookbook" with best practices and benchmarks
for Internet legislation, regulation and education
will be produced and published at end of this year.

http://www.osce.org/events/conferences/fom/2004amsterdam/

eu: Conference on Tolerance and the Fight against
Racism, Xenophobia and Discrimination
In the Decision on Tolerance and Non-Discrimination,
Ministers in Maastricht reaffirmed their commitment to
promote tolerance and non-discrimination. They decided
to follow up the work started at the OSCE Conference
on Racism, Xenophobia and Discrimination, held in
Vienna on 4 and 5 September 2003, and welcomed the
offer by Belgium to host a second OSCE conference on
this subject in Brussels. This Conference aims to
build upon the general and specific discussions within
the OSCE on racism, xenophobia, discrimination and
anti-Semitism that have taken place since the Porto
Ministerial Council Meeting in 2002.
 http://www.osce.org/events/conferences/tolerance2004/

nz: ISP code of practice planned for mid 2005
A code of practice for ISPs will be in place by the
middle of next year, with or without the support of
the industry heavyweights.
 http://stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3025110a28,00.html

au: Keeping an eye on email monitoring
Organisations may need to revisit their policies on
email and internet usage monitoring in light of the
proposed NSW Workplace Surveillance Bill, according to
industry experts.

http://www.itnews.com.au/msoft_storycontent.asp?ID=9&Art_ID=21470

IT opportunities, challenges abound in Asia Pacific
Leading names in the information and communications
technology sectors of the Asia-Pacific region are
gathering here to participate in ITU Telecom Asia
2004. The one-week event, which opens today, consists
of an exhibition and forum, attended by industry
leaders such as Intel, Samsung, Lucent and China
Mobile. Based in Geneva, Switzerland, the
International Telecommunication Union, or ITU, is an
international organization that is part of the United
Nations system.

http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200409/06/200409062237596709900092309231.html

S'pore: IT roped in to solve community problems
>From remote health monitoring services for the aged
and sick to automated neighborhood crime alerts,
Singaporean authorities are in a multi-million dollar
push to use IT to help resolve everyday community
issues.

http://asia.cnet.com/news/industry/0,39037106,39192845,00.htm

us: Law Fights to Keep Pace With Tech
Federal and industry experts grapple with how to apply
CALEA wiretap standards to something that lawmakers
didn't anticipate 10 years ago -- voice over IP.
Michael Grebb reports from Washington.
 http://wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,64887,00.html

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