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CENSORSHIP, FILTERING & CONTENT REGULATION
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au: National roadshow to raise awareness of online
dangers
An online safety training roadshow and information
campaign aimed at educating parents, teachers and
community groups about the risks children face online
has been launched by ICT Minister, Senator Helen
Coonan.
http://www.idm.net.au/story.asp?id=6594
au: Web pic law canvassed
POSTING unauthorised photos of children on the
internet could be outlawed under options raised in a
discussion paper.
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,16202163%5E15319%5E%5Enbv%5E15306,00.html
nz: NZ cops caught with explicit emails
New Zealand police officers caught with sexually
explicit images in their office email accounts may
face criminal charges after the nation's chief censor
ruled that 10 of the images were "objectionable".
http://smh.com.au/news/World/NZ-cops-caught-with-explicit-emails/2005/08/12/1123353484143.html
us: Experts aim to boost child safety
Keeping children safe is trickier these days. That was
the overarching message of a conference Wednesday at
the Rochester Institute of Technology.
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050811/NEWS01/508110353
us: Pro-Porn Rulings Put Children in Danger
Freedom of speech is a protected right of every
citizen of the United States of America, but are
commercial pornographers hiding behind free speech to
infringe on the rights of the young and innocent?
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/news/050812a.asp
us: You Wanna Take This Online?
Cyberspace is the 21st century bully's playground
where girls play rougher than boys: What does
13-year-old Taylor Hern ♥? Lots of things: the
actor Ewan McGregor, the color pink, the band My
Chemical Romance, her boyfriend Alex. You would know
all that if you visited her Xanga, a blog--home-page
hybrid that is the modern teen's public and
interactive equivalent of a diary. You could even
leave a comment on her Xanga or send her an "eProp"
if, say, you ♥ Ewan McGregor too.
http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,1088698,00.html
us: Morality in Media: Contrary to What NBC's
'Dateline' May Think or Say, Promoting Hardcore
Pornography with Porn Spam is Not 'Legal'
On Aug. 5, NBC TV's Dateline aired a segment "On The
Hunt" that looked at the invasion of unwanted ads for
Internet pornography. In the otherwise commendable
segment, Dateline reporter John Hockenberry said, "But
this porn invasion is legal." Hockenberry also
interviewed a "full-time spam fighter" who said that
if the porn spammer is based in the U.S., "all he has
to do is write the phrase 'sexually oriented' on the
mail and it's all perfectly legal."
http://www.earnedmedia.org/mim0810.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/usnw/20050810/pl_usnw/morality_in_media__contrary_to_what_nbc_s__dateline__may_think_or_say__promoting_hardcore_pornography_with_porn_spam_is_not__le
Google gives 'googling' reporters cold shoulder
A news website which "googled" Google?s chief
executive claims to have been blacklisted by the
search engine
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9075-1727941,00.html
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LEGAL AND SECURITY
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int: Resolutions from the 6th International Conference
on Cyber Crime in Egypt in April 05
The conference made a number of recommendations
including: that the Convention on Cyber Crime of the
Council of Europe shall be recommended as providing a
minimal international legal and procedural standard
for fighting cyber crime; provide international
standards for the search, seizure and investigation of
electronic evidence; that training and technical
assistance should remain a priority area for
international efforts against cyber crime and finally
that Interpol should take the lead in promoting these
recommendations which are vital to effectively tackle
information technology crime and protect the citizens
of the world in cyber space.
http://www.interpol.int/Public/TechnologyCrime/Conferences/6thIntConf/Resolution.asp
jp: Child porn found at online auctions:-
Hard disk drives containing child pornography are
being auctioned online in Japan, escaping checks by
Internet service providers, a survey found.
http://news.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=105876&n_date=20050811&cat=World
jp: Auction sites hide child porn / ISPs failing to
catch hard drives filledwith obscene images
Hard disk drives (HDDs) containing child pornography
auctioned online have been escaping checks by Internet
service providers, a survey conducted by Internet
Association Japan has found.
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20050811TDY02008.htm
nl: Dutch politicians say Google Earth images help
terrorists
A number of members of the Dutch Parliament have
warned that certain locations in the Netherlands, such
as the port of Rotterdam, the royal palace in the
Hague and Amsterdam Airport, already potential
terrorist targets, could be made more vulnerable to
terrorists thanks to the detailed images created from
satellites and aircrafts within the last three years
available via Google Earth.
http://www.dmeurope.com/default.asp?ArticleID=9618
us: Federal court weighs rules on online sex pics
Lawyers representing the adult sex industry appeared
in a Colorado federal court Aug. 2 to argue for a
preliminary injunction against the enforcement of new
federal rules they say could remove sexual images on
Web sites, including nude photos that are a staple of
gay male cruising sites.
http://www.washblade.com/2005/8-12/news/national/pics.cfm
us: U.S. Copyright Office poll: IE-only OK?
Signaling a new addition to the list of
browser-specific Web sites, the U.S. Copyright Office
solicited opinions on a planned Internet Explorer-only
zone.
http://news.com.com/2100-1038_3-5827627.html
us: Grand Theft Auto Player Convicted
A 20-year-old whose lawyers claimed the video game
Grand Theft Auto and childhood abuse caused him to
kill three small-town police officers was convicted
Tuesday of capital murder.
http://www.wired.com/news/games/0,2101,68481,00.html
us: More sad than newsworthy [cyberstalking]
It became a local news story when an Abingdon man
escalated his threats toward Knox County State's
Attorney Paul Mangieri and the story attracted
national media attention when it was later learned
that the same man had been cyber stalking celebrity
Cheryl Tiegs.
http://www.thezephyr.com/tiegs.htm
us: Court revives indictment in e-mail interception
case
A federal appeals court Thursday revived the
government's online eavesdropping prosecution against
an executive of a company that offered e-mail service
and surreptitiously tracked its subscribers' messages.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/12360782.htm
http://www.ca1.uscourts.gov/pdf.opinions/03-1383EB-01A.pdf
us: DIRECTOR MUELLER TO CYBER PROFESSIONALS: Report
Your Hacks! (news release)
Robert S. MuellerOne in five. That?s how many
businesses, universities, and government agencies said
they reported their computer intrusions to law
enforcement in the 2005 cyber survey conducted by the
Computer Security Institute and the FBI.
http://www.fbi.gov/page2/aug05/infragard081205.htm
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SPAM
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UK failing to fight spam
Anti-spam campaigners have branded the UK's anti-spam
laws 'a waste of time and public money' as the
Information Commissioner admits it hasn't prosecuted
anyone for sending junk emails
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39212971,00.htm
us: Opening Pandora?s inbox
Microsoft has reached a settlement with one of the
world?s leading spammers which includes a payment of
$7m to the software giant. Despite legal and
technological challenges, spamming is still a big
problem. And a new form of the scourge could prove
even more costly to the unwary
http://economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=4269099
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INTERNET & NEW TECHNOLOGY USE
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uk: Internet is 'top threat to family harmony' (free
for a few days)
They are modern young couples who share the household
chores and split the household income. But when it
comes to the modem and internet access they can't
agree.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article305772.ece
uk: Parents 'ignore game age ratings'
Parents tend to ignore warnings on games that say they
are unsuitable for children, research shows.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4118270.stm
us: No more 'Hot Coffee' sex for GTA
Rockstar, maker of a video game which caused
controversy after secret sex scenes were found in it,
has issued a fix to disable access to the scenes.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4142184.stm
Patch dreht versteckte Sex-Szenen in Grand Theft Auto:
San Andreas ab
http://derstandard.at/?id=2139618
Korean white paper on IT (from the SIRC blog -
http://internetinasia.typepad.com)
The 2004 White Paper on IT has just been released and
will be ony be available for the next few days, after
which it will be taken down due to space limitations.
The paper was produced by KISDI, and sponsored by MIC
(Ministry of Information and Communication, Republic
of Korea).
http://www.kisdi.re.kr/download/request/WHITEPAPER2004.pdf
Will Google Earth help save the planet?
A bird's-eye view of the whole world available for
free might inspire people to take better care of its
fragile landscapes
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18725126.200
kr: Gamer dies after 50 hours of play
A South Korean man has died of exhaustion after
playing the online multiplayer game Starcraft
virtually non-stop for almost 50 hours, according to
reports. Throughout the session he stopped only to
visit the toilet and to take short naps.
http://out-law.com/page-6001
uk: Computer games get classroom trial
A clutch of secondary schools across the UK will start
their autumn term by testing how computer games could
be used to support education.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/08/10/computer_games_classroom_trial/
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ONLINE MUSIC & P2P
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uk: Supreme Court Judgement on Peer-to-Peer Networks
has Implications Across the Globe (reg req'd)
The US Supreme Court gave its judgement on a critical
question of contributory and vicarious (or secondary)
copyright infringement at the end of June 2005. It was
decided that the makers of software and the providers
of a network, both of which were widely used for
copying copyright material, were potentially liable
for contributory and vicarious infringement. This
judgement may well affect the way that courts across
the world decide issues of secondary infringement in
the online environment.
http://www.mondaq.com/article_preview.asp?a=34252&e=on
P2P file-sharers shun music for software and games
Peer-to-peer networks are no longer dominated by
pirated music files - now, a study has found, it's
cracked software, games and films that are doing the
rounds on P2P.
http://management.silicon.com/itpro/0,39024675,39151284,00.htm
jp: iTunes Japan sells over one million songs in four
days
Apple Computer Inc said on Monday its new iTunes
online music store in Japan sold over one million
songs in its first four days, a strong start for the
download service in the world's second-largest music
market.
http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/sub/bizit/story/0,4574,165753,00.html?
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COMMENT, MICROSOFT & DEVELOPMENTS
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[It's not the internet, but...] Erotic images can turn
you blind
Researchers have finally found evidence for what good
Catholic boys have known all along ? erotic images
make you go blind. The effect is temporary and lasts
just a moment, but the research has added to
road-safety campaigners? calls to ban sexy
billboard-advertising near busy roads, in the hope of
preventing accidents.
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7845
Chasing the dream
As video gaming spreads, the debate about its social
impact is intensifying
http://economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=4246109
China and the internet: Imperial bubble?
CHINA'S leading internet search engine, Baidu.com, is
named after a 900-year-old Song Dynasty love poem
about the search for a beautiful woman. Baidu's
literal meaning??hundreds of times??represents the
tortuous quest for the ideal. Baidu's owners,
including (with a 22% stake) its chairman, Robin Li,
did not have to work that hard to achieve financial
bliss. Just five and a half years after founding
Baidu, they listed it on America's NASDAQ exchange
only to see the stock soar by 354% on its August 5th
debut, the largest first-day gain since the dotcom
bubble. At its closing price on that day of nearly
$123 a share, up from the flotation price of $27,
Baidu was worth nearly $4 billion, more than any other
Chinese internet firm and almost 3,000 times last
year's profit.
http://economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=4284371
The Guardian profile: Tim Berners-Lee
Sir Tim, named last year as the greatest living
Briton, is rightly heralded as the godfather of the
web.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1547447,00.html
us: Search engine race gets personal
In the battle to win extra users, search engines are
shifting their focus to include new services.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/4144646.stm
us: TiVo Tests Internet Download Service
Add TiVo Inc. to the list of companies trying to wed
the Internet to television. The digital recording
company will soon allow customers to download TV shows
to their set-top boxes via the Internet - even before
the shows air on TV.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/T/TIVO_INTERNET_DEAL
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/services/2005-08-12-tivo-internet_x.htm
us: Google pauses online books plan
Google suspends the scanning of copyrighted books due
to criticisms of its plans to put university libraries
online.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4146488.stm
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GOOGLE_LIBRARY_COPYRIGHTS
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/12/AR2005081201694.html
Google scannt vorerst keine geschützten Bücher mehr
http://www.golem.de/0508/39839.html
Yahoo! Local Trumps Google in Local Search
Yahoo! rules local search; Google still dominates
overall search by a wide margin.
http://www.clickz.com/stats/sectors/search_tools/article.php/3527176
us: Will Sticks Lick Broadband Fix?
When Bob Dylan sang "Time passes slowly up here in the
mountains," he wasn't referring to the speed of Web
pages loading on his computer. But this month I've had
plenty of time to think about that Dylan lyric, as
well as re-read the paper and stare at the hummingbird
that flutters outside my window at my western
Massachusetts retreat. This is dial-up country, and my
browser refreshes in slo-mo, my mailbox fills up in
dribbles and two coats of paint can dry before a
PowerPoint file downloads. Though the Berkshires are
only hours away from superwired citadels like New York
and Boston, in terms of telecommunications this might
as well be Nepal.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8938152/site/newsweek/
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ARRESTS/COURT CASES FOR CHILD PORN
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au: Ex-teacher gets periodic detention for child porn
A magistrate at Belmont, south of Newcastle, has taken
note of a man's admission to storing child pornography
on his computers when sentencing him to nine months
periodic detention.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200508/s1436212.htm
http://au.news.yahoo.com/050812/21/vh5h.html
ca: Day-care worker guilty in child porn case
A Quebec City day-care worker was convicted Tuesday of
possessing child pornography.
http://montreal.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=qc-venne20050910
us: Court reverses in computer kidporn case
A Maryland appeals court has reversed the felony
conviction of a man convicted of downloading child
pornography from the Internet.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/?feed=TopNews&article=UPI-1-20050812-19440300-bc-us-kiddieporn.xml
http://www.nbc10.com/technology/4839832/detail.html
http://www.thehometownchannel.com/technology/4839832/detail.html
us: Former Fond du Lac HR boss faces child pornography
charges
A former city of Fond du Lac employee was charged
Wednesday with 20 counts of possessing child
pornography after allegedly viewing the material on
the Internet for hours a day at work.
http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/news/archive/local_22153462.shtml
us: Judge rules in Broward child porn case
Kelly Ray Jones, the partner of a man accused of
killing a Broward County Sheriff's deputy during a
raid a year ago, will be sentenced on child
pornography charges next month after a federal judge
Friday rejected his claim that he is mentally
incompetent.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-cjones13aug13,0,923591.story
us: Tampa man faces charges of possessing child
pornography
A Tampa man arrested after allegedly downloading child
pornography from a college computer now faces
additional charges after a search of his home.
http://www.tampabays10.com/news/news.aspx?storyid=17381
us: Chesterfield man charged with child sex abuse
A 31-year-old Chesterfield Township man who
prosecutors say had a personality that attracted
children was bound over for trial Thursday in Macomb
Circuit Court on multiple counts of child sexual
abuse.
http://www.detnews.com/2005/macomb/0508/14/B04-278214.htm
us: Oklahoman Gets 30 Years For Child Porn Possession
A federal judge has handed a 30-year prison term to an
Oklahoma man who pleaded guilty to a federal charge of
production of child pornography.
http://www.kotv.com/main/home/stories.asp?whichpage=1&id=88329
us: Pembroke Pines man gets more than 15 years in
child porn case
A Pembroke Pines man was sentenced in federal court
Thursday to more than 15 years in prison for
distributing child pornography over the Internet.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-811childporn,0,3930343.story
us: Waco Federal Judge Sentences Couple To Prison In
Child Porn Case
U.S. District Judge Walter Smith sentenced Donnie Earl
Witt of Oklahoma City, Okla. to 30 years in federal
prison Wednesday for production of child pornography.
http://www.kwtx.com/news/headlines/1667866.html
us: Man, 35, Faces 605 Child-Porn Charges
Police charged a Tampa man on Wednesday with more than
600 felony child-pornography charges after finding a
glut of lewd pictures, magazines, videos and erotica
in a locked shed behind his parents' house.
http://news.tbo.com/news/MGBS4W7B8CE.html
us: Ex-driver reindicted on child porn charges
A former Lee County school bus driver arrested in
April on child pornography charges was rearraigned
Wednesday by prosecutors who say they have expanded
the case against him.
http://news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050811/NEWS01/508110420/
us: Newport sex offender busted for child porn
A Newport man faces child pornography charges after a
five month investigation.
http://www.kptv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3708596
us: Man arrested for downloading child porn
A Yuma man is in custody this evening after he
allegedly downloaded child pornography.
http://kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=3707977
us: Oklahoma man gets 30 years for child pornography
An Oklahoma man who led state troopers on a high-speed
chase through Central Texas before being caught with
sexually explicit photos of a 14-year-old girl was
sentenced to 30 years in federal prison Wednesday.
http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/news/stories/2005/08/11/20050811wacearle_sentence.html
us: Bay Minette man gets maximum 10-year sentence for
child porn
A federal judge has sentenced a Bay Minette man to 10
years in prison - the maximum allowed by law - for
possession of a child pornography collection.
http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050810/APN/508100836
us: Woman admits to receiving child porn
A 54-year old Fort Wayne woman pleaded guilty in
federal court to receiving child pornography, just
days before her trial was set to begin.
http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/news/local/12347296.htm
us: Shelton man pleads guilty to downloading child
pornography
A Shelton man faces up to 10 years in prison after
admitting in federal court Thursday to possession of
child pornography on his home computer.
http://www.connpost.com/news/ci_2935292
us: Child pornography sting leads to N. Carolina sex
abuse arrest
An investigation by the Bergen County Prosecutor's
Office has led to the arrest of a North Carolina
firefighter accused of molesting two children, ages 5
and 7.
http://bergen.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk2MDYmZmdiZWw3Zjd2cWVlRUV5eTY3NDM0NDEmeXJpcnk3ZjcxN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk0
us: CONVICTED PEDOPHILE FACES FEDERAL CHARGES FOR
USING INTERNET TO LURE OREGON TEEN TO PALM SPRINGS FOR
SEX
A Palm Springs man was arrested this afternoon by U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents for
using the Internet to entice an Oregon youth to Palm
Springs to engage in sexual activity.
http://www.ice.gov/graphics/news/newsreleases/articles/050805palmsprings.htm
us: WISCONSIN MAN GETS 50 YEARS FOR CHILD SEX CRIMES
A Beaver Dam man was sentenced to 50 years in prison
Thursday for enticing minors into sex acts and
possessing child pornography, following an FBI-led
investigation with assistance from U.S. Immigration
and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and state and local
authorities in Wisconsin.
http://www.ice.gov/graphics/news/newsreleases/articles/050809greenbay.htm
us: Hollywood Man Arrested for Child Pornography
Detectives from BCI received information regarding a
possible child pornography distribution ring being
operated out of a Hollywood home.
http://somd.com/news/headlines/articles/2442.shtml
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