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The cost of online anonymity
In countries where free speech is limited, hiding your
true identity online is becoming big business.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/4227578.stm
ch: Campaign targets online child pornography
The Swiss authorities have launched a campaign to stop
the illegal downloading of child pornography from the
internet.
http://swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=111&sid=6070086&cKey=1126168269000
Schweizer Kampagne gegen Kinderpornos im Web
Übermässiger Internetkonsum kann zu echten Übergriffen
führen
http://derstandard.at/?id=2168535
uk: Access denied
This is the golden age of the internet when
information is free and anyone can blog their views to
the world. But government and big business are moving
in - the clampdown has started.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,1566979,00.html
cn: Clinton: China Must Tolerate More Dissent
China will have to tolerate more dissent as its
economy grows and opens up to the rest of the world,
former President Clinton said Sunday.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/11/AR2005091100241.html
cn: Clinton Urged to Raise Shi Tao Case at China
Internet Summit
Human Rights in China (HRIC) and Reporters Without
Borders (RSF) today issued an open letter to former
president Bill Clinton, urging him to raise the case
of jailed journalist Shi Tao and encourage Internet
companies, especially Yahoo !, to implement their
human rights obligations.
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=14943
cn: Yahoo Founder Explains China E-Mail Move
Yahoo had to comply with a demand by Chinese
authorities to provide information about a personal
e-mail of a journalist who was later convicted under
state secrecy laws and sentenced to 10 years in
prison, the company's co-founder Jerry Yang said.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CHINA_YAHOO
http://asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=29603
http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/09/08/HNyahooobeyedlaw_1.html
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/technology/12611495.htm
http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=9593845
Yahoo Says It Gave China Internet Data
A co-founder and senior executive of Yahoo confirmed
Saturday that his company gave Chinese authorities
information later used to convict a Chinese journalist
now imprisoned for leaking state secrets.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/10/AR2005091001222.html
"Reporter ohne Grenzen": Vorwürfe gegen Yahoo nach
Inhaftierung eines Journalisten
US-Unternehmen Informant der chinesischen Polizei?
http://derstandard.at/?id=2166549
us: Internet fuels explosion in child porn access,
addictions
The Internet has opened a Pandora?s Box when it comes
to child pornography, says a special agent with the
Wisconsin Department of Justice?s Internet Crimes
Against Children task force.
http://www.wisinfo.com/thereporter/news/archive/local_22441404.shtml
us: Vast majority of child porn viewers are men using
their home computer
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
funded the National Juvenile Online Victimization
Study.
http://www.wisinfo.com/thereporter/news/archive/local_22308827.shtml
us: Contesting the Not-So-Virtual World of Politics
(reg req'd; free for short period)
Video gamers aren't supposed to care about serious
stuff like politics, but that could change as
politicians ramp up efforts to regulate games.
http://nytimes.com/2005/09/10/sports/othersports/10game.html
us: Digital generation gap separates parents, kids
The article includes how "School districts are trying
to close the digital divide by arming parents with
knowledge. For example, David Occhino, Brighton school
district's Web coordinator, launched the popular
"Instant Communication with Your Child" seminar four
years ago to get parents up to speed with the latest
technologies."
http://rochesterdandc.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050904/BUSINESS/509040314/
us: Recognizing the signs that your child is being
bullied
The article discusses bullying, including
cyberbullying.
http://www.themonitor.com/SiteProcessor.cfm?Template=/GlobalTemplates/Details.cfm&StoryID=9033&Section=Maria%20Luisa%20Salcines
il: Blood-soaked horror
There is no law in Israel that prevents "adult-only"
software from being sold to minors, thus I suspect
this title will be a big hit among local teenagers.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1125886813320
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Japan tries to tame Internet beast
Call it dis-invention, if you like. Japan, a
technology utopia, has done the unbelievable and
strangled the internet into silence. A law made 55
years ago has managed to do it, at least as far as
election chatter goes. It has bitten off the heads of
political parties and candidates and muffled the
defiance and gutsy wit of web bloggers.
Internet-addicted Japan is at sea. An inflexible
interpretation of an old law devised to control the
number of election posters, flyers and postcards is
the cause. Implausibly, election officials have
classified home pages, emails and other internet
material as "documents", meaning that every download
is counted the same as if it were a brochure stuck
into the hand of a train commuter.
http://asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=29616
us: LAW ENFORCEMENT ONLINE - Information Sharing, Web
Style (news release)
After the first London bombing in July, we notified
more than 5,000 law enforcement professionals
nationwide about the attacks in 32 seconds.
http://www.fbi.gov/page2/sept05/leo090605.htm
Asia hunts sex tourists
When police arrived at the ramshackle computer shop at
the Baligbago village in Philippines? Angeles City,
the Canadian had vanished. Huddled inside were six
Filipinas who were cybersex models.
http://www.asianpacificpost.com/news/article/663.html
us: NEW PROGRAM HELPS NAB ONLINE SEX OFFENDERS
A new law enforcement task force in Rexburg is
tackling the problem of child pornography and sexual
abuse in an innovative way.
http://www.kpvi.com/index.cfm?page=nbcheadlines.cfm&ID=28405
us: Developing a local police force, including
computer crime officer
Thunder Bay?s police chief is hoping to add eight new
officers to the force to tackle street gangs, youth
crime and child pornography, and expand the community
response team.
http://www.chroniclejournal.com/story.shtml?id=28795
us: NEW PROGRAM HELPS NAB ONLINE SEX OFFENDERS
A new law enforcement task force in Rexburg is
tackling the problem of child pornography and sexual
abuse in an innovative way.
http://www.kpvi.com/index.cfm?page=nbcheadlines.cfm&ID=28405
us: Sheriff announces plan to track down sex offenders
Jerry Kilgore, Republican candidate for governor, was
on hand last week as Sheriff Mike Brown announced a
new initiative to track convicted sex offenders.
http://www.bedfordbulletin.com/articles/2005/09/07/news/news04.txt
us: After the Storm, the Swindlers (reg req'd; free
for short period)
Even as millions of Americans rally to make donations
to the victims of Hurricane Katrina, the Internet is
brimming with swindles, come-ons and opportunistic
pandering related to the relief effort in Louisiana,
Mississippi and Alabama. And the frauds are more
varied and more numerous than in past disasters,
according to law enforcement officials and online
watchdog groups.
http://nytimes.com/2005/09/08/technology/08fraud.ready.html
FBI: Hurricane relief Internet scams proliferate
Internet sites purporting to be charities related to
Hurricane Katrina have been popping up faster than the
FBI can look at them, and many appear to be
fraudulent, the head of the FBI's cyber division said
Thursday.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/08/katrina.web.scams.ap/index.html
Trojaner verbreitet islamische Moral und blockiert
Porno-Sites
A zitiert Koran und zwingt User zum Neustart
http://derstandard.at/?ressort=Virus
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EU data retention plans hit hurdle (reg req'd)
The EU is struggling to outline a controversial accord
to improve police access to telephone and internet
data amid concerns about the plan's costs.
http://smh.com.au/news/breaking/eu-data-retention-plans-hit-hurdle/2005/09/09/1125772672425.html
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uk: Text appeal
Mobile phones and computers may have made our lives
much easier, but they come equipped with their own
health warnings, says Dr John Briffa
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine/story/0,11913,1565617,00.html
us: Lawmakers OK control of video game sales
California lawmakers have approved a bill that would
ban the sale of violent video game to minors, but
Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has not yet
taken a position on the legislation, his office said
http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=9614809
us: Following Hurricane Katrina "Storm water for sale
on eBay"
The chance to make a quick buck from Hurricane Katrina
has not escaped some, with items already for sale on
eBay
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1564797,00.html
au: Email spat gets PAs sacked
Two Australian legal PAs have lost their jobs over an
email row which started over ham and cheese sandwiches
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,39020369,39217322,00.htm
Belgians plan to subsidise PCs
Belgium's government will next week decide whether to
adopt a plan backed by secretary of state for IT,
Peter Vanvelthoven, to offer subsidised
broadband-enabled PCs to disadvantaged groups in the
country.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/09/belgian_pc/
China Telecom will Netz-Telefonie blockieren
Der chinesische Telekom-Monopolist will demnächst den
VoIP-Datenverkehr unterbinden. Damit ist in China bald
Schluss mit Skype & Co.
http://futurezone.orf.at/futurezone.orf?read=detail&id=274538&tmp=89845
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ca: Canadian Recording Industry Applauds Court
Decision Ruling Kazaa Illegal
CRIA calls on Ottawa to strengthen copyright
legislation, get tough on unauthorized file-swapping.
More information is also available at
http://michaelgeist.ca/
http://www.cria.ca/news/050905_n.php
au: Can Kazaa Go Legit?
An Australian court ruling threatens the peer-to-peer
network's future, but the P2P party is in no danger of
coming to a close.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,68770,00.html
Parental software to detect Dutch illegal file sharing
Dutch anti piracy organisation BREIN is to release
free parental software on 22 September, that will
detect file sharing programs such as Kazaa or illegal
media files on PCs.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/08/parental_software_file_sharing/
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us: Panel proposes Internet rules for utilities
California utility regulators on Thursday proposed
rules to provide Internet access over electric power
lines.
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?storyID=2005-09-08T220659Z_01_SPI879534_RTRIDST_0_NET-UTILITIES-CALIFORNIA-BROADBAND-DC.XML
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us: Court Overturns Child Porn Conviction
An interesting decision where "The increasingly common
law enforcement tactic of having adult officers pose
as children in Internet chat rooms to arrest potential
sex offenders came under legal attack yesterday when
Maryland's highest court ruled that the law does not
allow the prosecution of people who merely believed
they were dealing with children."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/07/AR2005090702067.html
au: Web of evil
WHEN Townsville pedophile Wayne Verdun George was
jailed for possessing child pornography, an Irishman
travelled across the world to visit him ? and continue
his evil work.
http://www.thesundaymail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,16554780%255E5422,00.html
au: Man jailed for having images of child porn
A Mawson man is behind bars after a Canberra
magistrate convicted and sentenced him yesterday to
six months' jail for possessing more than 100 images
of child pornography, some of children as young as
four.
http://canberra.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?class=news&subclass=local&category=general%20news&story_id=422171&y=2005&m=9
jp/th: Nagoya man arrested for auctioning child porn
on Internet
A 30-year-old man has been arrested in Nagoya on
suspicion of auctioning child pornography over the
Internet and sending the smut to successful bidders in
Japan from Thailand, according to police. The suspect,
Makoto Imayoshi, is originally from Kobe but currently
lives in Bangkok, Aichi Prefectural Police said.
http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=2&id=348765
br: Combate à prostituição infantil deve ser feito por
toda a sociedade, diz psicóloga
O combate à prostituição infanto-juvenil deve passar
por um trabalho envolvendo tanto os meios repressivos
quanto de sensibilização da sociedade sobre seus
próprios preconceitos.
http://ultimosegundo.ig.com.br/materias/brasil/2109001-2109500/2109006/2109006_1.xml
za: Porn probe: pair allegedly used own children
A couple who allegedly used their own children to
produce and distribute child pornography, which they
distributed using the Internet, were among four people
arrested during a major clampdown in Durban this week.
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=15&art_id=vn20050909072125675C216286
http://www.sabcnews.com/south_africa/crime1justice/0,2172,112037,00.html
za: Fury over 'slow' police work on child porn
Child rights activists are furious that police have
not moved fast enough to apprehend child pornography
perverts whose dark and sordid world was exposed on
national television last week.
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20050910111443682C886387
za: Three elderly people held on child porn charges
Three elderly people will appear in the Pinetown
Magistrate's Court on Friday on charges relating to
the distribution of child pornography, KwaZulu-Natal
police said.
http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__national/&articleid=250520
ca: Spin-the-bottle game leads to sex charges
The father of a 9-year-old girl is awaiting sentence
after pleading guilty to seven sex offenses resulting
from a game of spin-the-bottle with the youth at a
slumber party that led to disrobing and his taking
explicit photos and child pornography.
http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/0909sex-games09-ON.html
ca: Child porn bust linked to Wpg. daycare centre
The arrest of a Winnipeg daycare operator's common-law
spouse for possessing child pornography has horrified
some parents.
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1126409512281_4/?hub=Canada
ca: Man charged after child porn seizure
It's billed as the largest personal collection of
child pornography Toronto's child exploitation unit
has ever seen.
http://www.canada.com/nanaimo/story.html?id=ddc21ba5-4181-4952-8d3c-96036c993c54
us: Child Porn Arrest
The Computer Crimes Section detectives arrested a
45-year-old man on Sept. 2 for possession of child
pornography. Suffolk police say Robert Allen of
Centerreach used the Yahoo screen name
Long_Island_Guy44 and chatted online with an
undercover detective from the Monroe County Sheriffs
Department that he believed to be a 14-year-old girl.
http://www.longislandpress.com/index.php?show=article&cp=217&a_id=5604
us: Stidfole waives hearing for child pornography
charges
Multiple counts of sexual abuse of children:
possession of child pornography were bound over to
court against a Port Royal man Thursday after he
waived his preliminary hearing before Magisterial
District Judge Jacqueline Leister.
http://www.lewistownsentinel.com/articles.asp?articleID=4483
us: Man gets six years for child porn
A West Wyoming man who amassed more than 1,000
computer images of child pornography was sentenced
Thursday to six years in federal prison.
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=15182898
us: Freeport man sentenced for child pornography
After pleading guilty to a felony charge of possession
of child pornography, Freeport resident Lester A.
Broughton on Thursday was sentenced to 30 months
probation and 180 days in jail by Circuit Judge
Charles Hartman.
http://www.journalstandard.com/articles/2005/09/09/local_news/news03.txt
us: 7 jurors selected in judge's child pornography
trial
Seven potential jurors were selected Wednesday for the
trial of former Superior Court Judge Stephen W.
Thompson, who faces federal charges of possession of
child pornography and sexual exploitation of a child.
http://www.courierpostonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050908/NEWS01/509080363/
us: Man pleads guilty to federal Internet child porn
charges
A Lancaster man pleaded guilty in federal court last
week to two child pornography charges involving the
Internet.
http://www.thelancasternews.com/articles/2005/09/09/news/news05_porn.txt
us: Westminster Man Imprisoned For Child Porn
A federal judge sentenced a Westminster man to a year
and a day in prison for possessing child pornography,
the U.S. attorney's office announced Friday.
http://www.thewbalchannel.com/news/4954819/detail.html
us: Benton County Deputy Arrested On Child Porn Charge
A Benton County sheriff's deputy and retired state
trooper has been arrested on a child pornography
charge.
http://www.thehometownchannel.com/news/4950149/detail.html
us: Man gets prison over child porn
A Tucson martial arts instructor has been sentenced to
2.5 years in federal prison for possessing hundreds of
child pornography images.
http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/index.php?page=local&story_id=090805a4_brf_childporn
http://kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=3817527
http://kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=3816049
us: Guard guilty of having child porn
A federal jury on Tuesday convicted a former Highland
Park High School security guard of one count of
possessing child pornography.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/north/chi-0509070275sep07,1,3759615.story
us: Retired Police Officer Pleads Guilty In Child Porn
Case
A retired Norfolk police officer has pleaded guilty in
federal court to a count of transporting child
pornography by computer.
http://www.wavy.com/Global/story.asp?S=3817575
us: Freeport man sentenced for child pornography
After pleading guilty to a felony charge of possession
of child pornography, Freeport resident Lester A.
Broughton on Thursday was sentenced to 30 months
probation and 180 days in jail by Circuit Judge
Charles Hartman.
http://www.journalstandard.com/articles/2005/09/09/local_news/news03.txt
us: Draper man gets 15 years for making child porn
A Draper man who recruited minor girls to be
prostitutes and filmed them engaging in sexually
explicit activity has been ordered to spend 15 years
behind bars. Alexander Arash Zarif, 29, was sentenced
Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Paul Cassell on three
counts of production of child pornography.
http://www.sltrib.com/ci_3013649
us: METROPOLIS MAN SENTENCED TO 210 MONTHS IN PRISON
FOR DISTRIBUTING CHILD PORNOGRAPHY (news release)
A 42-year-old Metropolis man was sentenced to more
than 17 years in prison yesterday for distributing
child pornography, which resulted from an
investigation conducted by U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement (ICE).
http://www.ice.gov/graphics/news/newsreleases/articles/050907benton.htm
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