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CENSORSHIP, FILTERING & CONTENT REGULATION
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uk: New unit targets net paedophiles
A new agency to tackle child abuse and indecent images
on the internet is being launched by the Home Office.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4937264.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,,1760265,00.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,200-2149780,00.html
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/PA_NEWA17525621145819902A0
http://www.itv.com/news/britain_422263.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/listenagain/ram/today2_child_abuse_20060424.ram
(audio)
uk: Cybercop crusade
Jim Gamble, the director of the new Child Exploitation
and Online Protection Centre, tells Mark Gould how he
plans to expose sexual predators who are a threat to
children and educate young people about the dangers of
the net
http://society.guardian.co.uk/children/story/0,,1756066,00.html
cn/uk: Strong words as Straw urges China to play by
global rules
The Foreign Secretary will today warn that China has
to "play by the rules" in order to match its new-found
economic clout with political responsibility if it
wants to become a constructive and "non-threatening"
international partner. ... Mr Straw will also argue
that China must end restrictions in gaining access to
the internet, and regarding freedom of expression. "I
would argue that the best way to manage the social
tensions within the country thrown up by rapid
economic change is through political reform and
greater enfranchisement of ordinary citizens."
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article360223.ece
China Web portals pledge stronger self-policing
China's top Web portals, including Sina and Tom
Online, have agreed to rid their sites of "unhealthy"
content, amid a broader Beijing campaign to clean up
the Internet.
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6064628.html
http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=11950907
Beijing's war on online sex and violence
Beijing has declared war on the wave of "unhealthy"
internet content it says is engulfing the nation?s
cyberspace, amid fears China's young are being
corrupted en masse by an influx of online sex and
violence.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13132-2150786,00.html
th: 16-hour Internet cafe curfew for under-18s
People under 18 are banned from internet cafes from
10pm until 2pm the following day under a new
regulation now being enforced by the Culture Ministry.
http://asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=44056
us: New group aims to 'save the Internet'
Days before a congressional committee is set to vote
on an overhaul of the nation's telecommunications
policy, a broad coalition of media, consumer and
Internet groups has organized behind a dramatic
tagline: "Save the Internet."
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-6064384.html
us: MySpace Tightens Security After String of
Incidents
In only a few short years, MySpace has grown to over
63 million members. As this popular social networking
Internet service continues to grow, so does the
concern for safety.
http://www.thepolypost.com/story.php?story=3303
us: New regulations to make porn sites warn at every
page
Every page on a commercial website that contains
sexually explicit material will be required to include
a warning label to protect web users inadvertently
finding it, under proposals announced by US Attorney
General Alberto Gonzales yesterday.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/04/24/new_regs_crackdown_on_smut_sites/
Networking: Content filtering grows
A gullible young employee sends out a confidential
document -- over the Internet -- that should have been
sent only by overnight courier. A spy, hired by a
rival firm, snags the file, with a packet-sniffing
device, as it transitions from the corporate network
to the Internet. Trade secrets are divulged, and the
company is ruined. Experts tell United Press
International's Networking column that corporations,
both large and small, are seeking to stop "information
leaks," like that, with outbound content filtering
software.
http://www.physorg.com/news65105669.html
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CYBERCRIME, CYBERSECURITY AND PRIVACY
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uk: Mafia insiders infiltrating firms, UK cops warn
Employees are still one of the greatest threats to
corporate security, as "new-age" mafia gangs
infiltrate companies, the UK's crime-fighting agency
has said.
http://zdnet.com.au/news/security/soa/Mafia_insiders_infiltrating_firms_UK_cops_warn/0,2000061744,39252927,00.htm
uk: Online gangs targeting consumers - crime agency
Thousands of international criminals working over the
internet in ""virtual gangs" are stealing millions of
pounds from consumers and businesses in Britain, a
senior computer security expert said on Tuesday.
http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=11967743
us: Judge rules web-surfing worker should keep job
Saying surfing the web is equivalent to reading a
newspaper or talking on the phone, an administrative
law judge in the US has suggested that only a
reprimand is appropriate as punishment for a city
worker accused of failing to heed warnings to stay off
the internet.
http://smh.com.au/news/breaking/judge-rules-websurfer-should-keep-job/2006/04/24/1145861291791.html
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/14417425.htm
us: Probation Over Web Site
A man who ran a pornographic Web site that included
photographs of war dead taken by American troops was
sentenced on Friday to five years' probation.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/23/us/23bodies.html
nz: Trade Me concerned about fraud
Internet business Trade Me says it is concerned it
could be the target of further internet fraudsters.
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/488120/703644
au: Bullies take to cyberspace
Bullying has moved out of the school yard and into
cyberspace, with the internet and mobile phones now
the major tools of student bullies.
http://smh.com.au/news/breaking/bullies-take-to-cyberspace/2006/04/24/1145730838274.html
ca: Regina bylaw to target cyber-bullies
Regina city council has taken aim at bullies with a
new bylaw that allows fines of up to $2,000 for
bullying in public or in cyberspace.
http://www.cbc.ca/sask/story/bullying-regina060425.html
ca: School deals with cyber-bullying
Parents of a N.E. Calgary elementary school are
finding out about an incident of cyber-bullying at
their school.
http://cfcn.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/RTGAMArticleHTMLTemplate/B/20060425/school?brand=generic&hub=&tf=CFCNPlus/generic/hubs/frontpage.html&cf=CFCNPlus/generic/hubs/frontpage.cfg&slug=school&date=20060425&archive=CFCNPlus&ad_page_name=&nav=home&subnav=fullstory
us: BOE looks into 'cyber bullying'
In the wake of violence involving high schools on
O'ahu and the Big Island in the last two months, the
Board of Education has formed an ad-hoc committee on
school safety, with "cyber bullying" on youth-oriented
Web sites one of the issues under scrutiny.
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2006/Apr/21/ln/FP604210371.html
us: Terrorists' Web Chatter Shows Concern About
Internet Privacy
Terrorist groups, which for years have used the
Internet and its various tools to organize and
communicate, are paying more attention to addressing
security and privacy concerns similar to those of
other Web users, counterterrorism experts say.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/12/AR2006041201968.html
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GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC POLICY
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us: Senator plans Net taxes but no Net neutrality
More Americans would be forced to pay taxes
subsidizing broadband service in "unserved" locales,
and cities would be free to go into the Wi-Fi business
under an upcoming U.S. Senate bill.
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6064743.html
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SPAM
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nz/oecd: OECD calls for anti-spam drive
Governments and the information-technology industry
need to step up their attempts to combat email spam,
an international organisation says.
http://stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3648208a11,00.html
http://stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3648208a28,00.html
Sophos report reveals latest 'dirty dozen' spam
relaying countries (news release)
Sophos, a world leader in protecting businesses
against viruses, spyware and spam, has published its
latest report on the top twelve spam relaying
countries over the first quarter of 2006.
http://www.sophos.com/pressoffice/news/articles/2006/04/dirtydozapr06.html
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INTERNET & NEW TECHNOLOGY USE
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fr/eu: Chirac unveils his grand plan to restore French
pride
The French president, Jacques Chirac, yesterday
unveiled what he hopes will be his great legacy to
France's struggle against the global dominance of the
US: a series of technological projects including a
European search engine to rival Google.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/france/story/0,,1761440,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4943204.stm
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article360205.ece
New search engine could boost Arab Internet use
A Saudi-German plan to launch a dedicated Arabic
language search engine for the Web could revolutionize
the moribund Arabic Internet market, a senior official
in the project said.
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6064784.html
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/488120/706629
http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=11957479
60 bln emails sent daily worldwide
Internet users around the world send an estimated 60
billion emails every day and many of these are spam or
scam attempts, business leaders said today.
http://www.sabcnews.com/sci_tech/internet/0,2172,126309,00.html
http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=11957219
Among the audience
The era of mass media is giving way to one of personal
and participatory media, says Andreas Kluth. That will
profoundly change both the media industry and society
as a whole
http://www.economist.com/surveys/displaystory.cfm?story_id=6794156
Active Home Web Use by Country, March 2006
The number of active Internet users continued to climb
in March 2006 in all countries except Germany and the
U.K. Data tracked by Nielsen//NetRatings reports the
number of active users in 10 countries worldwide.
http://www.clickz.com/stats/sectors/geographics/article.php/3601181
One Day Soon, Straphangers May Turn Pages With a
Button
Trials of a number of e-paper devices that are
competing to become the iPod of the newspaper business
have already begun.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/24/business/media/24epaper.html
For MySpace, Making Friends Was Easy. Big Profit Is
Tougher.
MySpace.com, a social networking site, is ready for
its members to meet advertisers.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/23/business/yourmoney/23myspace.html
New technology may be changing the human brain
(Guardian comment)
We need to listen to the expert warnings about the
potential impact of digital communication on how
people think and learn.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1759704,00.html
Coca-Cola is aiming to tap into youth culture with a
series of viral ads that will be distributed via
social networking sites such as MySpace.com.
http://media.guardian.co.uk/
uk: BBC reveals broadband ambitions
The BBC plans to launch a series of broadband services
for teenagers and across key content areas of sport,
music, knowledge, health and science.
http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,,1761168,00.html
uk: BBC unveils radical site revamp
BBC to rebuild website around user-generated content,
including blogs and home videos, with the aim of
creating a public service version of MySpace.com.
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1761085,00.html
uk: 'BBC 2.0' reinvented for digital generation
Director general Mark Thompson unveils a radical new
strategy designed to stop the Corporation becoming
irrelevant
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9071-2150918,00.html
Mobile phones gain on PCs for internet
Mobile phones may soon challenge personal computers as
the dominant platform for accessing the internet, a
recent survey suggests.
http://smh.com.au/news/breaking/mobile-phones-gain-on-pcs/2006/04/24/1145730838744.html
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DIGITAL DIVIDE
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World's digital divide is narrowing
The digital divide is narrowing as citizens in
emerging markets get online via computers and mobile
phones, with some regions now on a par with developed
nations, a ranking of Web-savvy nations showed on
Wednesday.
http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=11963498
Digital divide narrows - report
Denmark remains the most e-ready country in the world,
with a 9.0 out of 10 rating, though countries near the
bottom are beginning to improve their ratings at a
greater rate than those at the top.
http://dmeurope.com/default.asp?ArticleID=15077
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COMMENT, MICROSOFT & DEVELOPMENTS
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Microsoft goes into battle over EU's record fine
World's largest software group appeals over ?497 fine
for abusing its dominance.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Technology/news/story/0,,1759901,00.html
Microsoft in European Court Says 2004 Ruling Is a
Failure
While agreeing that the 2004 antitrust ruling against
Microsoft was not a success, the opposing
interpretations of that failure diverged greatly.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/26/technology/26soft.html
Book publishers square up to Google
Book publishers are trying to put on a brave face in
their fight against the looming Google menace, but
nervous laughter exposes their unease at the internet
revolution bearing down on the printed word.
http://smh.com.au/news/breaking/book-publishers-square-up-to-google/2006/04/26/1145861388769.html
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au: 55yo man caught in porn net
A 55-year-old man on bail on child pornography charges
is the first West Australian caught under the state's
new cyber laws that allow police to pose as children
online.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,18937555-1702,00.html
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