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uk: Net censorship 'morally unacceptable', report says
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/17/political_censorship/
eu: Call to act over extremist sites
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Politics/terrorism/story/0,,1851456,00.html
us: Using Nearly Nude Pictures, Child Sex Sites Test
Laws
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/20/business/20model.html
uk: Computer expert faces jail over 'made-up' child
porn images
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,20411-2306067,00.html
uk: Police arrest two over Web scams
http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=13237241
kr: In South Korea, online rumors can hit hard
http://iht.com/articles/2006/08/14/news/korea.php
jp: Internet crimes hit record high in Japan
http://infoworld.com/article/06/08/17/HNinternetcrimesjapan_1.html
nl: Dateless Dutch farmers vent anger over porn
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20133493-13762,00.html
nz: Concern at Three Key Myths Print this page
http://www.internetnz.net.nz/media/2006-05-04-myths
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CENSORSHIP, FILTERING & CONTENT REGULATION
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uk: Net censorship 'morally unacceptable', report says
The UK Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee
recently issused a report in which it stated that
"search engines' agreement to block the access of
computer users to certain information (in China) was
'morally unacceptable'".
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/17/political_censorship/
us: Anticrime group calls for laws to curb
'cyberbullying'
A national anticrime group on Thursday urged Congress
to pass new laws this year targeting the practice of
"cyberbullying," a growing problem the group says will
plague at least 13 million American children during
the next school year.
http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6106920.html
au: Northern Sydney suburbs schools lead the way in
Internet safety
Northern suburbs schools, Brookvale Public and Monte
Sant? Angelo Mercy College were today announced as
winners of NetAlert's CyberSafe School Awards for
Excellence. The inaugural national competition
recognises schools that demonstrate best practice in
online safety and is proudly supported by leading
online media company ninemsn.
http://netalert.net.au/03591-Northern-Sydney-suburbs-schools-lead-the-way-in-Internet-safety.asp
cn: Freeze on Internet cafes to end
Guangzhou will soon end a two-year moratorium on
licensing new internet cafes, a move that is expected
to double the number of legal internet bars in the
city by next year
http://asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=51163
us: Anticrime group calls for laws to curb
'cyberbullying'
A national anticrime group on Thursday urged Congress
to pass new laws this year targeting the practice of
"cyberbullying," a growing problem the group says will
plague at least 13 million American children during
the next school year.
http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6106920.html
us: Cyber Bullying Threatens Kids
In Vermont, when 13-year old Ryan Patrick Halligan
committed suicide nearly three years ago, his parents
blamed his despair on cyber bullying by classmates.
http://11alive.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=83494
us: Shurtleff joins child advocate group's campaign
against cyber-bullying
A third of U.S. teens say they have been victims of
cyber-bullying, receiving mean, threatening or
harassing messages online, according to a survey
released Thursday.
http://www.sltrib.com/ci_4207764
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CYBERCRIME, CYBERSECURITY AND PRIVACY
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eu: Call to act over extremist sites
Europe faces 'real' and 'persistent' threat from
terrorism, Reid warns.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Politics/terrorism/story/0,,1851456,00.html
us: Using Nearly Nude Pictures, Child Sex Sites Test
Laws
Web sites for pedophiles offer explicit images of
children who are covered by bits of clothing to avoid
child pornography charges.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/20/business/20model.html
uk: Computer expert faces jail over 'made-up' child
porn images
A COMPUTER expert who altered indecent images of naked
women to make them look like children has been warned
that he faces a prison sentence.
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,20411-2306067,00.html
uk: Police arrest two over Web scams
Police arrested a man and woman in London on Saturday
as part of a wide-ranging investigation into holiday
Web site fraud that has left nearly 3,000 people out
of pocket.
http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=13237241
kr: In South Korea, online rumors can hit hard
Kim Myong Jae's estranged girlfriend was found dead in
her room in Seoul on April 22 last year, six days
after she poisoned herself. Two weeks later, Kim, a
30-year-old accountant, found that he had been
transformed into the No. 1 hate figure of South
Korea's Internet community, a victim of a growing
problem in a country that boasts the world's highest
rate of broadband use.
http://iht.com/articles/2006/08/14/news/korea.php
jp: Internet crimes hit record high in Japan
The number of Internet-related crimes in Japan in the
first six months of this year hit a record high,
according to data issued Thursday by the National
Police Agency. The NPA said there were 1,802 cases of
such crimes in the first half of 2006, which is up 12
percent on the same period last year. The largest
number of cases involved fraud related to computer
networks. Most of these cases, which accounted for
about 40 percent of all Internet-related crimes, were
linked to Internet auction sites, the NPA said.
http://infoworld.com/article/06/08/17/HNinternetcrimesjapan_1.html
http://asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=51168
nl: Dateless Dutch farmers vent anger over porn
A DUTCH dating website for farmers has taken Google to
court for listing sponsored links to pornographic
sites when you enter the site's name into the search
engine.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20133493-13762,00.html
au: Website scars top surgeon
A PROMINENT plastic surgeon from the eastern suburbs
has won his case against a website designer over
unacceptable nudity and bad grammar.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/08/18/1155408025299.html
us: US judge rules wiretaps illegal
President Bush says the taps are a much-needed device
A secret wiretapping scheme brought in as part of the
Bush administration's war on terror is
unconstitutional and must stop, a federal judge has
ruled.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5260892.stm
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/18/washington/18nsa.html
http://news.com.com/2100-1035_3-6107411.html
http://www.out-law.com/page-7209
Romanian police break up Internet crime rings
Authorities in the southern city of Pitesti have
broken up four sophisticated Internet crime rings,
police said Saturday. A total of 62 suspects _ 23 of
whom were arrested _ are accused of defrauding 120
foreigners of more than euro100,000 (US$128,000),
after an extensive investigation which was assisted by
the FBI and the U.S. Secret Service, the police
statement said.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/08/20/1155408079154.html
Waging War Against Click Fraud
As fraud undermines faith in pay-per-click Web ads,
search engines, advertisers, and Web hosts are
wrangling over what to do
http://businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2006/tc20060817_077667.htm
Spyware's Growing Arsenal
Purveyors of malware are increasingly harnessing the
popularity of social networks and Web video to infect
PCs
http://businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2006/tc20060816_466084.htm
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GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC POLICY
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nz: Concern at Three Key Myths Print this page
"InternetNZ is concerned at three key myths which are
emerging in response to yesterday's announcements of
telecommunications regulatory reform," said InternetNZ
President Colin Jackson today.
http://www.internetnz.net.nz/media/2006-05-04-myths
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SPAM
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vn: Draft of ?spam? circular debated
The Ministry of Trade hosted a seminar in Ha Noi
yesterday to introduce the draft of a circular to
guide trade promotion in the electronic media.
http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/showarticle.php?num=03BUS170806
us: Internet giant searches for hidden gold in garden
of Nazi e-mail pest
AOL plans to go digging for gold in the garden of the
internet?s notorious ?Spam Nazi?. The treasure hunt
comes after he defaulted on a court judgment ordering
him to pay the internet company $12.8 million (£6.7
million) in damages for flooding its members with
unwanted e-mail adverts. The spammer has now
disappeared.
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,20411-2316389,00.html
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1851691,00.html
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INTERNET & NEW TECHNOLOGY USE
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Amazon.com: Click to download
Having taught the world how to shop online, Amazon.com
now finds the world shopping elsewhere on the
internet. It is time to become a pioneer again
http://economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=7791530
Old Media Grow Richer On The Net
Forget about prognostications of doom for TV,
newspapers and radio. They all get more valuable
online.
http://www.forbes.com/2006/08/15/yahoo-microsoft-google-in_cc_0815soapbox_inl.html
uk: UK online sales set to double by 2010
British spending over the Internet is set to double,
hitting almost 40 billion pounds, by 2010, a survey
showed
http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=13235611
German Mobile Connections Outpace Population
Is Germany being taken over by cell phones? Yes,
actually, and statistics show it's about time. The
country is one of the last in Europe to over-saturate
its mobile phone market -- and there's still room to
grow.
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2137023,00.html
Fox to Make MySpace More Spacious
It's launching new sites around the world and boosting
staff and video for MySpace in a play to expand its
Internet presence
http://businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2006/tc20060809_013576.htm
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FILE SHARING
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Nordic regulators to discuss possible action against
Apple
Nordic consumer regulators will meet in Iceland this
month to discuss possible legal action against
iPod-maker Apple Computer Inc. if the company does not
ease restrictions that prevent songs bought at its
online store from being played on rival music players.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/15279943.htm
YouTube takes on music giants with free video
downloads
A little over a year ago it did not exist. Today it is
viewed more than 100m times a day and has become one
of the most spectacular success stories of the
internet in recent years.
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1852846,00.html
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COMMENT, MICROSOFT & DEVELOPMENTS
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Apple admits excessive hours
Apple says workers at its iPod plant in China do more
than 60 hours a week a third of the time.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/default.stm
War breaks online ties between Israelis and Lebanese
The conflict is reverberating through the blogosphere,
felling virtual bridges.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0810/p17s01-stct.html
Boeing drops broadband service
Boeing is blaming a lack of demand for the closure of
its its loss-making, broadband communications service.
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1852869,00.html
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TELECOMMUNICATIONS
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uk: Power outage knocks ISPs offline
An inquiry has been launched to find out how a single
burned-out cable connection could cause major
disruption to Internet service providers
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39281211,00.htm
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VoIP
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Twenty-four million pay for VoIP: Key to success?
Don't call it VoIP
Twenty-four million people worldwide pay to use retail
VoIP services, new research has shown. The number of
retail VoIP subscribers jumped more than 80 per cent
to 18.7 million during 2005 - or 24 million if you add
users of PC-to-phone services such as Skype, according
to Point Topic's IP Telephony report.
http://networks.silicon.com/telecoms/0,39024659,39161601,00.htm
au: VoIP payphone ready to roll
A new generation of internet pay phones are ready to
hit the streets in Australia, wrapping broadband
access and IP telephony into a single device.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2006/08/18/1155408000399.html
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nz: Judge jails man for role in child porn on internet
A Whangarei man has been sentenced to 18 months in
prison for possessing and distributing internet child
pornography.
http://northernadvocate.co.nz/localnews/storydisplay.cfm?storyid=3696987
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