general internet news - Mar 02

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

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Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

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CENSORSHIP, FILTERING & CONTENT REGULATION
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A tangled web of law governing content (sub req'd)
Four years agoglobal business rose up in protest when
a French court ruled that French law could be used to
protect French citizens living in France, in the
famous Yahoo ruling.

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/36e06950-860a-11d9-b506-00000e2511c8.html

Australia Makes Positive Stand Against Child Porn
(news release)
The Australian Justice Minister, Chris Ellison, has
announced a new law making Internet Service Providers
(ISPs) more responsible for policing child pornography
and child abuse material through the services that
they provide. The law will require Internet Service
Providers to report any person accessing online child
pornography through their services, to the Police.
 http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0502/S00245.htm

uk: Call for child porn users amnesty
Fewer users of internet child pornography should face
court action, a child protection group has said.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4296613.stm

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1500085,00.html

uk: Internet child porn reports drop
According to the Internet Watch Foundation's 2004
report, while child abuse images remain a problem the
number processed is down by nearly 12%.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cambridgeshire/4302865.stm

Internet Watch Foundation sign up WebtraffIQ to
analyse new website (news release)
The IWF has appointed web analytics vendor WebtraffIQ
to provide customary and bespoke analysis for their
newly launched re-designed website
 http://iwf.org.uk/media/news.113.htm

Opportunities and risks go hand in hand on the
internet : new report today (news release)
Children and young people who make the best use of the
internet also encounter more risks online. This is one
of the main findings from a two-year research study by
the London School of Economics and Political Science
(LSE).
 http://iwf.org.uk/media/news.112.htm

Brightview announces blocking system for child abuse
websites (news release)
Brightview, an IWF member unveils WebMinder and offers
to share the technology designed to block access to
child abuse websites, at no cost to other ISPs
 http://iwf.org.uk/media/news.111.htm

China steps up Internet controls ahead of legislative
session
Chinese authorities have asked Internet service
providers and portals to step up filtration of
"harmful" information passed through chat rooms or
bulletin boards ahead of annual legislative sessions
that begin this week, a Beijing newspaper reported
Tuesday.

http://asia.news.yahoo.com/050301/kyodo/d88i1fh06.html

us: Filmmakers lack depth in pornography study
Signs of a cinematic backlash against the Bush
administration and the red state-blue state division
are visible in the art houses of America. Not
surprisingly, the movies present romanticized images
of a liberation movement of the second half of the
20th century, juxtaposed against rigid, unthinking
conservatism.

http://boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/03/01/filmmakers_lack_depth_in_pornography_study/

us: Washington ponders cyberbullying
Washington state Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles is
introducing a bill that would include cyberbullying in
schools' statewide anti-harassment policies and make
perpetrators subject to disciplinary action.
 http://www.nwfusion.com/weblogs/layer8/007880.html

us: Lawmaker Wants To Prevent Cyberbullying
Stephanie Gallardo says she used to spend more time on
the Internet before someone used her instant-message
screen name to send out mean messages.
 http://www.kirotv.com/news/4226707/detail.html

us: First Spouses and Governors From Forty-Four States
Launch Children's Internet Safety Campaign
New iKeepSafe Coalition to Unveil Book, Web Site that
Introduces Cyber-Guardian for the Internet Age -- Faux
Paw the Techno CatSM

http://www.missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/NewsEventServlet?LanguageCountry=en_US&PageId=1870

us: Gonzales Vows Aggressive Stand on Obscenity
Prosecution
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, speaking in
Washington, DC Monday, said he aims to proceed
aggressively in the prosecution of obscenity cases.

http://www.avn.com/index.php?Primary_Navigation=Articles&Action=View_Article&Content_ID=218243

Iran jails blogger for 14 years
An Iranian weblogger has been jailed for 14 years on
charges of spying and aiding foreign
counter-revolutionaries.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4292399.stm
 http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39189089,00.htm

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/24/iranian_blogger_jailed/

bh: Online forum moderator arrested
Reporters Without Borders has called for the release
of Ali Abdulemam, moderator of the discussion forum
Bahrainonline, who was arrested by security services
on 27 February 2005. He faces five possible charges,
including defaming the king. "Imprisoning someone for
their journalistic work or posting an article on the
Internet cannot be acceptable in any circumstances",
the worldwide press freedom organisation said in a
letter to information minister.
 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=12687

http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2005/3/1/technology/10295290&sec=technology

http://reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=7761667

cn: Lawyer for several journalists and cyberdissidents
harassed and facing a professional ban
Reporters Without Borders expressed outrage after
courageous lawyer Guo Guoting, who has defended
several journalists and cyberdissidents facing harsh
prison sentences, was warned he is to be banned from
practising law.
 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=12697

us: Fighting child porn online
When Michael Briere pleaded guilty to the killing of
10-year-old Holly Jones last year, he also confessed
to having habitually viewed child pornography on the
Internet, sparking immediate calls to toughen up our
laws against it.

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1109199010990

de: Rechtsextremer Web-Content nimmt zu
Eine Zunahme von volksverhetzenden und den Holocaust
leugnenden Internet-Inhalten konstatiert die deutsche
Wirtschaftsinitiative "no abuse im internet".
 http://zdnet.de/news/tkomm/0,39023151,39130724,00.htm

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LEGAL AND SECURITY
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us: Internet Commerce Grows 88 Percent by Dollar
Volume and 39 Percent by Transaction Volume: Fraud
Remains a Concern (Verisign news release)
VeriSign released the fifth edition of the VeriSign
Internet Security Intelligence Briefing (ISIB).  The
new edition highlights Internet commerce and fraud
trends during the 2004 holiday season, security
threats and vulnerability metrics with a spotlight on
the shifting locations of capture sites used in
phishing attacks, as well as details on the rapid
growth of Internet usage and security prevention
technologies.

http://verisign.com/verisign-inc/news-and-events/news-archive/us-news-2005/page_028572.html

us: ICE WARNS THE PUBLIC ABOUT NEW IRAQ-RELATED
INTERNET SCAMS PREYING ON RELATIVES OF SLAIN U.S.
SOLDIERS AND OTHER AMERICANS (news release)
DC—Michael J. Garcia, the Department of Homeland
Security’s Assistant Secretary for U.S. Immigration
and Customs Enforcement (ICE), today issued a warning
to the public about two new Iraq-related Internet
scams targeting Americans, including one directed at
the relatives of fallen U.S. soldiers in Iraq and
another in which the sender claims to be an ICE agent
in Iraq tracking Saddam Hussein’s assets.

http://www.ice.gov/graphics/news/newsreleases/articles/scam021805.htm

uk: BT rogue dialler court case delayed
A legal challenge to BT's decision last year to block
access to numbers suspected of being used by rogue
dialler companies has been delayed.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/24/bt_rogue_dialler/

U.K. to issue public virus alerts
The British government has created a Web site with
virus alerts and security advice for home PC users and
small businesses.
 http://news.com.com/2100-7349_3-5588756.html

Romanian online fraudsters nabbed
Two Romanians have been arrested on charges they were
part of a crime group that defrauded dozens of people
in bogus Internet sales, police said Sunday.

http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2005/3/1/technology/10295244&sec=technology

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POLICY
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au: ISPs in dark over new porn laws
INTERNET service providers remain in the dark about
their exact obligations under new federal child
pornography laws due to come into effect next week.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,12358018%5E15342%5E%5Enbv%5E15306-15319,00.html

http://out-law.com/php/page.php?page_id=australianispsface1109244542

au: ISPs face new child porn reporting obligations
Internet service providers and content hosts will be
required to report online child porn to the Australian
Federal Police (AFP) from 1 March under amendments to
the Criminal Code Act 1995.

http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/0,2000061744,39182214,00.htm

au: AFP to house Internet porn squad in Qld
Queensland's Gold Coast will be home to an Australian
Federal Police (AFP) team fighting Internet child
pornography.
 http://abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200503/s1313704.htm

nz:  ISPs say child porn fines misguided
A group representing New Zealand Internet Service
Providers says there is no need to copy Australia's
moves against providers who allow users to view child
pornography.

http://tvnz.co.nz/view/news_technology_story_skin/476058%3fformat=html

nz: Comment requests on ISP code proceed apace
Episodes of InternetNZ’s projected Code of Practice
for internet service providers have been emerging at
speed. Stuart Meiklejohn, charged with putting the
code together, has been publishing extracts on
particular subtopics for comment by InternetNZ members
roughly every two working days.

http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/UNID/42FECDAA38822FD6CC256FA10018D169

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SPAM
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Can Spam be Stopped?
Rather than legislate a quick fix, Congress needs to
look harder at legal and technical complexities.

http://www.cbeji.com.br/br/novidades/artigos/index.asp?id=4182

us: Does CAN-SPAM Really Matter?
As a daily and enthusiastic reader of The New York
Times, I was disappointed to read their February 1
article on CAN-SPAM entitled, "Law Barring Junk E-Mail
Allows a Flood Instead" (subscription required). The
theme of the article was, as the title suggests, that
enacting CAN-SPAM was worse than having no laws at
all. The article really missed the point on several
fronts.
 http://www.circleid.com/article/952_0_1_0_C/

us: Adult Web Site Settles FTC Charges (news release)
An adult Web site operation that used illegal spam to
drive customers to its site has agreed to settle
Federal Trade Commission charges that the spam was
deceptive and unfair and violates federal law. The
settlement will bar the operation from using or hiring
affiliates to send deceptive spam and require that
they comply with the CAN-SPAM Act, which bars
deceptive subject lines and return addresses, and
requires a warning on spam that is sexually explicit.
 http://ftc.gov/opa/2005/02/sobonito.htm

uk: Spam sweep underway by OFT
An internet sweep targeting spammers and scammers
throughout the world is underway, the UK’s Office of
Fair Trading announced today. The OFT has joined
forces with government agencies across the globe in a
coordinated two-day attack.

http://out-law.com/php/page.php?page_id=spamsweepunderway1109080071

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INTERNET & NEW TECHNOLOGY USE
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us: Do you know what your child is doing on the
Internet?
Do you know what the initials POS mean? Moms and Dads,
any Internet savvy kid can tell you. It’s Internet
lingo or “code” for “parents over shoulder!”
 http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_fullstory.asp?id=30989

us: Monitoring kids online - Most parents claim they
on children
Fearful of child predators and disdainful of Internet
porn, many parents view home computers as another
portal to guard, one more door to lock.

http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200~20954~2734143,00.html

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2005-02-23-cyberbullying_x.htm

http://www.jsonline.com/bym/tech/news/feb05/305618.asp

us: Teach kids online survival tools
The 10 suspects arrested last week for sexually
preying on children in online chat rooms include a
lawyer and a high school student. The arrests, which
brought to 50 the number of people nabbed by the
Internet Crimes Unit of the Passaic County Sheriff's
Department, underscored the scariest thing about these
alleged predators: their seeming normality.

http://www.bergen.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk0MDAmZmdiZWw3Zjd2cWVlRUV5eTY2NTg5MjQmeXJpcnk3ZjcxN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXkxNA==

Kenyan school turns to handhelds
At the Mbita Point primary school in western Kenya
students click away at a handheld computer with a
stylus.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4304375.stm

China Forecasts 120 Mln Internet Users by Year End
Internet usage in China is expected to accelerate this
year, as personal computers find their way into more
homes and access to telecoms networks grows, according
to a report on Tuesday.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050301/wr_nm/telecoms_china_internet_dc_1

Webcams vulnerable to prying eyes
With the proliferation of surveillance cameras in
everyday life and Webcams at home computers, the ease
with which unsecured cameras can be detected on the
Internet has become an increasing cause of concern

http://globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050224.gtwebcamfeb24/BNStory/Technology/

Serbia is the Only Country in the Region Without
National Strategy for Development of Information
Society
“If we tried to compare the levels of development of
information society in Serbia and, say, Sweden, I am
afraid that we couldn’t find the right parameters to
compare the two societies. In my mind, at this time,
we should look at our neighbourhood and see how the
Romanians, Albanians or Croatians deal with the issues
important in this field. Alas, even if we do that, we
will see that we have little to brag about and that
practically all countries in the region are step or
two (some of them even more) ahead of us in terms of
the development of information socieity”, says Nenad
Golcevski, the coordinator of the Sentre for Study of
Information Technology (CePIT), which works under the
auspices of the Belgrade Open School.
 http://see.oneworld.net/article/view/103869/1/76

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ONLINE MUSIC & P2P
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us: CCA newest anti-p2p recruit
The Christian Coalition of America has fallen hook,
line and sinker for spurious Big Music cartel claims
that p2p file sharing applications have a major role
in the existence of online pornography.
 http://p2pnet.net/story/4053

us: Unlikely alliances form in file-sharing case
Religious and other conservative groups have shown
little love for Hollywood or the recording industry
over the years, decrying everything from explicit rap
lyrics to Janet Jackson's bared breast at the Super
Bowl.
 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05058/463051.stm

us: Musicians Break With Industry on File Sharing
A prominent group of musicians and artists, breaking
with colleagues and the major entertainment studios,
is urging the Supreme Court not to hold online
file-sharing services responsible for the acts of
users who illegally trade songs, movies and software.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61254-2005Feb28.html

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COMMENT, MICROSOFT & DEVELOPMENTS
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Yahoo! to celebrate 10th anniversary
Co-founders Jerry Yang and David Filo became
billionaires long ago, but they have stuck around
because they are eager to continue innovating and
increasing profits

http://globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050228.gtyahoofeb28/BNStory/Technology/

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ARRESTS/COURT CASES FOR CHILD PORN
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au: Ex-cop's kiddie-porn capers
A FORMER police officer whose curiosity prompted him
to download almost 150 child pornography images from
an Internet website has been fined $2500 but has
escaped a recorded conviction.

http://townsvillebulletin.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,7034,12375461%255E14787,00.html

ca: OPP Internet Luring Investigation Leads To Arrest
(news release)
Members of the Ontario Provincial Police Child
Pornography Section (Project "P"), in conjunction with
the Guelph Police Service have charged a 32-year-old
Guelph man following an Internet luring investigation.

http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/February2005/24/c8464.html

by/us: Key figures plead guilty in child porn case
Two leaders of a Belarus company admitted Monday that
it processed $2.5 million to $7 million in membership
fees that gave subscribers around the world access to
child pornography Web sites.

http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/104-02282005-456656.html

us/de: Evansville Man Arrested On German Child Porn
Tip
A tip from authorities in Germany has led to the
arrest of an Evansville man for sending child
pornography over the Internet. Robert Jason Racine,
21-years-old, was charged Saturday with four counts of
child exploitation and possession of child
pornography.

http://www.14wfie.com/Global/story.asp?S=3006939&nav=3w6oWtmu

http://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3005811&nav=0Ra7WsjC

us: Ex-CAP chief is charged in child porn case
The former longtime director of a community agency
today was charged with the sexual abuse of children
for possessing and sharing child pornography.

http://www.lancasteronline.com/pages/news/local/4/12372

us: Elderly Man Caught With Child Pornography
A 65-year-old grandfather, caught with child
pornography.

http://www.woai.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=EF249865-DC7A-4B84-8E2C-F412F8D3C724

us: Evansville man charged with possessing child
pornography
An Evansville man was arrested Saturday and charged
with four counts of child exploitation and one count
of possession of child pornography after a
multi-agency, international investigation that began
in September 2004.

http://www.tristate-media.com/articles/2005/02/28/pdclarion/news/news4.txt

us: Former Housing Director Faces Child Porn Charges
The former director of a Lancaster County housing
program is facing child pornography charges.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/wdiv/20050228/lo_wgal/2605321

us: Priest pleads guilty to receiving child porn at
Robertsville facility
A Roman Catholic priest with a history of sexually
abusing children pleaded guilty Monday of receiving
child pornography at a Franklin County home for
troubled priests.

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/207358FE4E09DD6086256FB7001C14C2

http://www.kbcitv.com/x5154.xml?ParentPageID=x5157&ContentID=x62892&Layout=KBCI.xsl&AdGroupID=x5154

us: Men Arrested on Pornography Charges
Two area men are behind bars charged with possession
of child pornography.

http://www.wlbt.com/Global/story.asp?S=3011613&nav=2CSfWvqN

us: Clarksville man indicted on child pornography
charges
A Clarksville man has been indicted by a federal grand
jury on child-pornography charges.

http://tennessean.com/local/archives/05/01/66172691.shtml?Element_ID=66172691

us: Former Housing Director Faces Child Porn Charges
The former director of a Lancaster County housing
program is facing child pornography charges.

http://www.thewgalchannel.com/news/4238653/detail.html

us: Former teacher gets jail in child porn case
Former Jenny Lind Elementary School teacher Wesley
Earle Levi, 53, faces 30 days jail time and 36 months
of probation after entering a tentative guilty plea on
misdemeanor child pornography charges.

http://www.calaverasenterprise.com/articles/2005/02/28/news/news02.txt

us: D.A.: Colebrookdale man had child porn on computer
A 43-year-old Hilltop Road man has been charged with
possessing child pornography.

http://www.pottstownmercury.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=14040781

us: FORMER HOLDEN TEACHER SENTENCED TO PRISON TERM IN
CHILD PORNOGRAPHY CASE (news release)
ME—Chris Reardon, a former teacher from Holden, Maine,
has been sentenced to 36 months in prison for
transporting child pornography. U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that Reardon was
sentenced Monday. In addition to the prison term
Reardon will be subject to 3 years of supervised
release. He pled guilty to the charge in August of
2004.

http://www.ice.gov/graphics/news/newsreleases/articles/021605_HoldenTeacher.htm

us: OAKHURST MAN CHARGED WITH USING INTERNET TO
SOLICIT SEXUAL ENCOUNTERS WITH 12-YEAR-OLD GIRL (news
release)
A 22-year-old Oakhurst man who used the Internet to
coerce what he thought was a 12-year-old girl into
engaging in various forms of sexual activity made his
initial appearance in federal court here this morning.

http://www.ice.gov/graphics/news/newsreleases/articles/internetpredator020905.htm

us: ICE AGENTS ARREST BUFFALO TEACHER ON CHILD PORN
CHARGES (news release)
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement special
agents arrested a high school social studies teacher
this morning and charged him with possession of child
pornography.

http://www.ice.gov/graphics/news/newsreleases/articles/buffalo020305.htm

us: MISSISSIPPI MAN SENTENCED TO TEN-YEAR PRISON TERM
FOR POSSESSION OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY
Special Agent-in-Charge Michael A. Holt, U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in New
Orleans and U.S. Attorney Jim M. Greenlee announced
that today in Oxford, Mississippi, United States
District Judge Michael P. Mills sentenced Robert Earl
Jones to ten years incarceration for possession of
child pornography.

http://www.ice.gov/graphics/news/newsreleases/articles/childporn020405.htm

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