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au: Mobile porn laws to protect kids
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,20209549-5001021,00.html
uk: Can't censor the internet? Tell that to your
compliant ISP
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/online/comment/story/0,,1854156,00.html
us: From Their Own Online World, Pedophiles Extend
Their Reach
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/21/technology/21pedo.html
us: With Child Sex Sites on the Run, Nearly Nude
Photos Hit the Web
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/20/business/20model.html
us: Campaign targets Web crimes against kids
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/technology/15329471.htm
nz: Internet users warned off religious scam
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&ObjectID=10397665
NZ govt settles authentication standards
http://zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/NZ_govt_settles_authentication_standards/0,2000061733,39267151,00.htm
us: FTC chief critiques Net neutrality
http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6107913.html
uk: Internet share trades grow apace
http://clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3623226
Microsoft offers to help Firefox into Vista
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/developer/0,39020387,39281495,00.htm
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CENSORSHIP, FILTERING & CONTENT REGULATION
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au: Mobile porn laws to protect kids
THE Federal Government last night vowed to introduce
laws protecting children from pornographic images
being distributed via mobile phones.
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,20209549-5001021,00.html
http://www.adotas.com/2006/08/aussie-government-to-introduce-mobile-porn-laws/
au: Phone porn suspension rule 'unclear'
The suspension of a Year 5 student who showed
classmates nude photographs on his mobile phone has
prompted a call for clearer guidelines on when
principals should use suspension or expulsion to
punish students.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/08/22/1156012514399.html
au: Coonan: mobiles a ?pipeline for perversion?
ICT Minister Helen Coonan has stepped up her campaign
for the regulation of mobile content with the flagging
of impending new legislation.
http://www.itnews.com.au/newsstory.aspx?CIaNID=36201
uk: Can't censor the internet? Tell that to your
compliant ISP
One of the canonical adages of cyberspace is John
Gilmore's observation that 'the internet treats
censorship as a defect and routes around it'. This has
traditionally been interpreted as a techie's way of
saying that you can't censor the net. It sits
alongside John Perry Barlow's comment that 'in
Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance'.
Both quotations date from the early 1990s, when it was
widely believed that the internet lay outside the
control of earthly jurisdictions.
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/online/comment/story/0,,1854156,00.html
uk: 'Porn-link' safety advert banned
A Home Office radio commercial publicising a child
protection website has been banned because it could
have led people to pornographic material.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/5277012.stm
http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=13268033
us: From Their Own Online World, Pedophiles Extend
Their Reach
At first blush, the two conversations ? taking place
almost simultaneously in different corners of the
Internet ? might have seemed unremarkable, even
humdrum. In April, with summer fast approaching, both
groups of online friends chatted about jobs at
children?s camps. Did anyone, one man asked, know of
girls? camps willing to hire adult males as
counselors? Meanwhile, elsewhere in cyberspace, the
second group celebrated the news that one of their own
had been offered a job leading a boys? cabin at a
sleep-away camp.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/21/technology/21pedo.html
us: With Child Sex Sites on the Run, Nearly Nude
Photos Hit the Web
In the photograph, the model is shown rising out of a
bubble bath, suds dripping from her body. Her tight
panties and skimpy top are soaked and revealing. She
gazes at the viewer, her face showing a wisp of a
smile that seems to have been coaxed from off-camera.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/20/business/20model.html
http://english.people.com.cn/200608/21/eng20060821_295345.html
us: Campaign targets Web crimes against kids
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announced a new
public service campaign Monday that will warn teenage
girls against posting information on the Internet that
could put them at risk of attack by child predators.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/technology/15329471.htm
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GONZALES_CHILD_CRIME
us: Bullying Rampant in Cyberspace
Cyber bullying troubles twice as many youth as
face-to-face bullying, announced "Fight Crime: Invest
in Kids," an anti-crime organization made up of more
than 2,500 law enforcement leaders (police chiefs,
sheriffs, prosecutors) and violence survivors.
http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/6-8-21/45156.html
th: Cyber-freedom may face a crackdown
As concern grows about controversial opinions being
voiced at Internet webboards, Thai webmasters are
wondering whether the time has come to clamp down on
cyber-freedom.
http://asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=51360
kr/au: Digital Demons: Playground taunts have moved
online
The instant message was snide and disturbing: "You're
famous -- they're spreading rumors about you at my
school." Alice, 14, a ninth grade student who spends
up to an hour a day chatting to friends online via
instant messaging program MSN Messenger, had no idea
who had sent the message.
http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?at_code=354451
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CYBERCRIME, CYBERSECURITY AND PRIVACY
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fr: French union demands eBay blocks fakes
pre-emptively
An industrial lobby in France is seeking damages from
eBay to compensate for the site's sales of counterfeit
goods. The Union of Manufacturers (Unifab) is to
complain to prosecutors and seek compensation for its
members.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/22/french_counterfeit_crusade/
http://www.out-law.com/page-7214
uk: Class action aims at Operation Ore
Names are being collected for a class action case
against the police involved in Operation Ore.
Operation Ore, the UK's largest investigation into
online child pornography, was the result of US
authorities handing over credit card details on over
7,000 individuals whose details they had found on a
child porn website.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/21/operation_ore_class_action/
nz: Internet users warned off religious scam
Police have warned people not to be influenced by an
internet scam which plays heavily on references to
Christianity.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&ObjectID=10397665
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GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC POLICY
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NZ govt settles authentication standards
After a long process of research and consultation that
began in 2004, the New Zealand government today
released its authentication standards for
e-government.
http://zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/NZ_govt_settles_authentication_standards/0,2000061733,39267151,00.htm
us: FTC chief critiques Net neutrality
The head of the Federal Trade Commission on Monday
expressed sharp skepticism toward proposed laws that
would levy extensive Net neutrality regulations on
broadband providers.
http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6107913.html
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INTERNET & NEW TECHNOLOGY USE
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au: Parents use Net to help sick kids: study
An alarming number of Australian parents turn to the
internet for medical advice when their child is sick,
a new study has revealed. And they're not just
reading, with up to 20 per cent altering treatment
decisions based on what they find.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/08/23/1156012588378.html
uk: Internet share trades grow apace
July's Internet population continued to increase over
May's in the 10 countries tracked by
Nielsen//NetRatings. Growth was only a quarter of a
percentage point. Overall, there was an increase of
almost 800,000 active home Web users. Spain (6.72
percent); Italy (4.15 percent); and Switzerland (2.29
percent) showed a reduction in their online
populations. The largest growth was experienced by
Japan (to 4.35 percent).
http://clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3623226
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DIGITAL DIVIDE
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Knocking Down the Barriers to the $100 Laptop
One Laptop Per Child's CTO, Mary Lou Jepsen, explains
how new display developments are bringing the $100
laptop closer to reality.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2006388,00.asp
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COMMENT, MICROSOFT & DEVELOPMENTS
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Microsoft offers to help Firefox into Vista
The Redmond giant is offering to help Firefox join the
Vista community
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/developer/0,39020387,39281495,00.htm
uk: There's only one online community that matters
If ever there was a Web 2.0 buzz word that makes me
reach for my metaphorical pistol, it's ?online
community?. This phrase is pregnant with various
meanings, some wildly idealistic, but all too often
synonymous with ''punters ripe for plucking?. Most new
Internet ventures describe themselves as online
communities as part of their Web 2.0 marketing drivel:
they're all user-driven communities using tag clouds
and wikis to liberate the wisdom of crowds. It make me
think of a different kind of tag: the kind we're
playing with the Web companies.
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,20411-2317094,00.html
Geeks declare war on CAPS LOCK
It seems an unlikely target for vitriol, but the "caps
lock" key has caused a brouhaha in the online
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&ObjectID=10397655
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VoIP
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ng: VOIP is Engine for Developing Telephony
The Executive Vice Chairman (EVC) of the Nigerian
Communications Commission (NCC), Dr. Ernest Ndukwe has
described the development of Voice Over Internet
Protocol (VoIP) as the engine of telephony in
developing countries like Nigeria.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200608220237.html
au: Vic TAFEs embracing VoIP
Nine Victorian Technical and Further Education
colleges are in varying stages of migrating to VoIP
telephony, the project's networking vendor Cisco
revealed today.
http://zdnet.com.au/news/communications/soa/Vic_TAFEs_embracing_VoIP/0,2000061791,39267152,00.htm
http://www.digitalmediaasia.com/default.asp?ArticleID=17694
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ARRESTS/COURT CASES FOR CHILD PORN
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au: TAFE probes porn access
THE arrest of South West TAFE employee and Warrnambool
Seahawks coach Rod Hind for possession of child
pornography has sparked an internal investigation into
computer security at TAFE.
http://the.standard.net.au/articles/2006/08/23/1156012580446.html
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