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general internet news - 4 December
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us: Groups Urge Courts To Limit FCC's Authority to Regulate Speech
http://www.cdt.org/press/20061130fcclimits.php
us: Should the Government Have Access to Personal E-Mails?
http://ecommercetimes.com/story/54517.html
cn: Bloggers must soon give real names
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2006-11/30/content_746463.htm
Malaysia mulls Internet laws against bloggers: report
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/12/03/1165080808893.html
Illegal net sport faces crackdown
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6192264.stm
uk: Web pirates who stole the Ashes
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,,1962593,00.html
France's Blogging Phenom Goes Global
http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/nov2006/gb20061128_985082.htm
uk: Internet heads for its top shop day
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2483803,00.html
InternetNZ supports International Day of Disabled Persons
http://www.internetnz.net.nz/media/DisabilityDay
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CENSORSHIP, FILTERING & CONTENT REGULATION
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cn: Bloggers must soon give real names
Officials with the Internet Society of China (ISC) have confirmed that China is exploring adopting a real name system in parts of the Internet, Shanghai-based Oriental Morning Post reported.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2006-11/30/content_746463.htm
Malaysia mulls Internet laws against bloggers: report
Malaysia may introduce tough Internet laws to control bloggers and prevent them from spreading "disharmony, chaos, seditious material and lies" on their websites, a report has said.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/12/03/1165080808893.html
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/worldhotnews/read.php?newsid=30020612
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CHILD PROTECTION
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ca: Predators duping youth into porn
Teens outfitted with the latest technology are being duped into producing child pornography for crafty Internet predators, warns a national organization that fights the sexual exploitation of young people.
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=dbb71861-0090-4f1b-bd3e-5f432c4ca549
ca: Children behind a lot of internet porn: police
Shrewd pedophiles need not produce their own child pornography because increasingly, children are unwittingly doing the work for them, police say.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2006/12/01/children-pornography.html
us: Justice Dept. to try to revive online porn act
Sexually explicit websites constitute 1 percent of the sites indexed by Google and Microsoft, according to a recent government-commissioned study. The study appears at a time when the Justice Department hopes to resurrect the 1998 Child Online Protection Act, a measure the U.S. Supreme Court deemed unconstitutional six years after its enactment. The law would block minors from harmful material by requiring Internet users to enter a credit-card number, an adult-access code, or an adult personal identification number in order to view certain sites.
http://media.www.dailyiowan.com/media/storage/paper599/news/2006/12/01/Metro/Justice.Dept.To.Try.To.Revive.Online.Porn.Act-2517083.shtml?sourcedomain=www.dailyiowan.com&MIIHost=media.collegepublisher.com>
us: Feds crack down on teen, preteen ‘model’ sites
The operators of dozens of teen and preteen “modeling sites” that critics say are nothing more than eye candy for pedophiles have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Alabama for allegedly trafficking in “visual depictions of minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15977010/
Sociability research of an online youth community
In the past years, online communities have become increasingly popular. This can partly be explained in terms of the sociability concept and the communication possibilities it entails. Sociability in the context of online communities refers to the possibilities for human interaction with technological means.
http://www.saferinternet.org/ww/en/pub/insafe/news/articles/1106/kul.htm
au: Launch of Think U Know in Australia
An internet safety education initiative named "Think U Know" was recently launched in Australia. It will deliver training programs to Australian primary and secondary schools through a network of Think U Know accredited volunteers and school champions. It is a joint initiative between NetAlert, the Virtual Global Taskforce and Microsoft.
http://www.saferinternet.org/ww/en/pub/insafe/news/articles/1106/au.htm
i-SAFE brings internet safety education to EU schools
A “digital divide” exists between what students, their teachers, and parents know about computers, technology and the internet. Educating all of them bridges the digital divide. i-SAFE now provides world-class internet safety education to EU schools.
http://www.saferinternet.org/ww/en/pub/insafe/news/articles/1106/isafe.htm
Danish children use online tools to sustain local networks
Online communities are primarily “virtual” and based on internet users’ common interests, ideas and values rather than their geographical proximity. In Denmark however, children and youths’ participation in online communities often sustain social networks from their physical world.
http://www.saferinternet.org/ww/en/pub/insafe/news/articles/1106/dk.htm
The Youth Protection Roundtable – YPRT
The Youth Protection Roundtable is a network of technical and pedagogical experts from all over Europe set up by German Digital Opportunities Foundation – Stiftung Digitale Chancen. The network partners aim at collaborating to ensure safe internet use for children and youth.
http://www.saferinternet.org/ww/en/pub/insafe/news/articles/1106/yprt.htm
Help make the internet safer for our children and get internet filtering software for free…
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http://www.saferinternet.org/ww/en/pub/insafe/news/articles/1106/sipbench.htm
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CYBERCRIME, CYBERSECURITY AND PRIVACY
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us: Groups Urge Courts To Limit FCC's Authority to Regulate Speech
As communications technologies converge, courts must rein in the Federal Communications Commission's continued efforts to expand its authority to regulate speech over broadcast media. That is the key message of two friend-of-the-court briefs CDT filed this week in conjunction with Adam Thierer of the Progress and Freedom Foundation (PFF) in the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the 2nd and 3rd Circuits. As an organization focused on the Internet and emerging digital technology, CDT has not typically involved itself in the broadcast indecency debate. But the FCC’s increased indecency enforcement is likely in this age of convergence to threaten the underlying freedom of other digital communications. November 30, 2006
http://www.cdt.org/press/20061130fcclimits.php
us: Should the Government Have Access to Personal E-Mails?
How safe is stored e-mail from the prying eyes of government authorities? Not very. It would be a whole lot safer if a decision by a federal judge in Ohio were left standing, according to a trio of civil rights groups. The decision by District Court Judge Susan J. Dlott declared unconstitutional provisions in a statute that allow law enforcement authorities access to stored e-mail without a search warrant or prior notice. That ruling in Warshak v. United States has been appealed by the U.S. Justice Department.
http://ecommercetimes.com/story/54517.html
Email pioneer says breakthrough was too much trouble
The man who invented the internet's most popular email routing system, Eric Allman, says he would never have done it had he known how much trouble it was going to be.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/01/email_troublesome_inventor_says/
US warns of al-Qaeda cyber threat
The US government has warned of an al-Qaeda call to attack US online stock market and banking services.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6197446.stm
http://ecommercetimes.com/story/54519.html
Illegal net sport faces crackdown
Sports authorities are taking action to stop illegal live coverage of football and other events over the internet.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6192264.stm
uk: Web pirates who stole the Ashes
Television coverage of major sporting events including Premiership football is being stolen by digital thieves and broadcast to fans who use illegal websites to avoid paying subscriptions.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,,1962593,00.html
au: Charges over net bank scam
A Sydney man has been charged over an alleged $1.2 million internet banking scam.
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,20847358%5E26199%5E%5Enbv%5E15306-15319,00.html
us: Clothed Child Porn Online?
Photographs of underage girls dressed provocatively and smiling seductively at the camera are facing renewed scrutiny from U.S. federal courts.
http://redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=19972&hed=Clothed+Child+Porn+Online%3F
us: Child-Modeling Site Owners Indicted
Two Florida men and a Web site corporation are facing multiple federal charges of conspiring to use a child-modeling site as a front for posing minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct.
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3646251
Kiwis with broadband attacked 102 times in 24hours (news release)
A New Zealand computer connected to the Internet is typically targeted more than a hundred times a day by a variety of worms, viruses, trojans, and hackers, according to a study released today by NetSafe - The Internet Safety Group, and IBM New Zealand.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0611/S00066.htm
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GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC POLICY
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au: New copyright law 'protects' MP3 users
The Senate has passed new copyright laws with the government backing down on one key provision which could have seen prosecution of iPod owners who kept spare copies of songs on their personal computer.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/12/01/1164777770381.html
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INTERNET & NEW TECHNOLOGY USE
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France's Blogging Phenom Goes Global
A free blogging service started by a rap radio station, Skyblog has MySpace beat in France—and is looking to expand in Europe and the U.S.
http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/nov2006/gb20061128_985082.htm
uk: Internet heads for its top shop day
Britain's shoppers are expected to spend a record £183m online on Monday 4 December, the biggest sales day yet in this country on the internet.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2483803,00.html
Virtual pals 'soar in importance'
Virtual communities are as important as their real-world counterparts, many members of online communities believe.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6158935.stm
The duplicitous inhabitants of Second Life
Rogue software that lets objects be duplicated freely threatens the very nature of the online world.
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1954158,00.html
Search engine aids rights workers
Human rights groups around the world are creating a search engine to help co-ordinate campaigns against abuse.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6198244.stm
Study: Violent video game exposure affects self-control
Adolescents who play violent video games show differences in brain activity from those playing nonviolent games. The differences were associated with emotional arousal and self-control, medical researchers reported.
http://www.itnews.com.au/newsstory.aspx?CIaNID=42942
Study: Effects of violent games linger in brain (Reuters)
Teens who play violent video games show increased activity in areas of the brain linked to emotional arousal and decreased responses in regions that govern self-control, a study presented Tuesday at the Radiological Society of North America's annual meeting found.
http://news.com.com/2100-1040_3-6138989.html
Video game industry gets annual report card from watchdog group
Video games got their annual report card this week, and there are actually a couple of A's on it this time around. Issued by the National Institute on Media and the Family, the 11th Annual MediaWise Video Game Report Card attempts to provide a "snapshot" of the video game industry and its relationship with parents, teens, and children.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061130-8332.html
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FILE SHARING
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Russia agrees to shut down Allofmp3.com
Russia has agreed to shut down Allofmp3.com and other music sites based in that country that the U.S. government says are offering downloads illegally.
http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-6139350.html
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,20411-2479458,00.html
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COMMENT, MICROSOFT & DEVELOPMENTS
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InternetNZ supports International Day of Disabled Persons
InternetNZ (The Internet Society of New Zealand) expresses its support for the International Day of Disabled Persons.
http://www.internetnz.net.nz/media/DisabilityDay
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TELECOMMUNICATIONS
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uk: OFCOM: Communications - The Next Decade
The UK Office of Communications (Ofcom) has launched its new book "Communications - The Next Decade". It consists of a series of essays by academics, politicians and regulators that examine the effect of convergence on the communications sector and the authors come to some provocative conclusions.
http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/newslog/OFCOM+Communications++The+Next+Decade.aspx
http://www.ofcom.org.uk/research/commsdecade/
nz: Telecom letter not the end of the story
InternetNZ responded today to the 14 November 2006 letter Telecom sent to the Finance and Expenditure Committee on the Telecommunications
http://www.internetnz.net.nz/media/TelecomLetterToCommittee
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VoIP
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uk: VoIP regulation could 'put lives at risk'
VoIP users could soon feel the pain when it comes to contacting the emergency services via their internet connection, according to a speculative report by the Internet Telephony Services Providers’ Association (ITSPA).
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/30/voip_regulation_999/
Outlook 2007: VOIP
Particularly for small businesses, 2006 brought forth an explosion of choice in the voice over IP market, as a flood of companies introduced IP PBX services and appliances, particularly from networking companies targeted toward the low end of the market and startups building and developing upon the recent advances in open source telephony software.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2066822,00.asp
Brits Slow to Take Up VoIP and IPTV
Compared to other industrialized countries, Britain ranks near the bottom in adoption of such services as calling and TV over broadband
http://businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/nov2006/gb20061130_977362.htm
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