general internet news - 12 January

[David Goldstein <goldstein_david@yahoo.com.au>]

.uk - Children warned of chatroom danger 
A £700,000 government campaign warning children to be wary
of internet paedophiles was launched today.

http://society.guardian.co.uk/children/story/0,1074,1118552,00.html
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3377977.stm

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=4091628

.uk - Widen the net 
A government campaign to improve internet safety is proving
successful but more can be done to stop children falling
prey to paedophiles, says John Carr.

http://society.guardian.co.uk/children/comment/0,1074,1118804,00.html

UK net paedo faces US jail
A Merseyside man has been jailed for five year after he was
caught having sex with a 14 year-old American schoolgirl he
met on the Internet.
 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/34800.html
 http://edition.cnn.com/2004/LAW/01/08/internet.sex.ap/

.us - Trial Shows Flaws in Pennsylvania Internet Porn Law
Pennsylvania state officials pressed ahead with enforcement
of a child-pornography law even though they were told it
would render thousands of legitimate Web sites
inaccessible, officials told a U.S. judge on Thursday.

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=4097953

.us - Child Porn Law Debated in Court
Blocking access to websites doesn't interfere with free
speech because Internet addresses aren't real, according to
the Pennsylvania attorney general's office.
 http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,61840,00.html
 http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-5135850.html

.pl - Hunting Kids
The number of crimes involving the sexual abuse of minors
has grown rapidly in recent years. Those exploring the
problem of pedophilia believe that it may only be the tip
of the iceberg.
 http://www.warsawvoice.pl/view/4065

Iran restricts reformist website
Iran's judiciary has ordered one of two main pro-reformist
websites to be "filtered", making it unavailable to
internet subscribers in Iran.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3376907.stm

Cuba Tightens Controls on Internet
Cuba tightened its controls over the Internet on Friday,
prohibiting access over the low-cost government phone
service most ordinary citizens have at home.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4422-2004Jan9.html

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/world/2004-01-09-cuba-net_x.htm

Child porn cases hit Netherlands
Police in the Netherlands have arrested the conductor of a
boys' choir after finding thousands of child pornography
pictures at his home.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3381401.stm

.fr - Digital economy bill would turn website hosts into
censors and end e-mail privacy
Reporters Without Borders today appealed to the senate to
amend the digital economy bill passed on second reading by
the national assembly yesterday, so that the commercial
companies that host websites do not have to act as Internet
censors and decide if online content is legal, and so that
there is no threat to the confidentiality of e-mail.
 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=9014

Reporters sans frontières dénonce le projet de loi pour la
Confiance dans l'économie numérique voté le 8 janvier par
l'Assemblée nationale
La loi érige notamment les hébergeurs en véritables
censeurs du Net, demandant à des entreprises privées de se
substituer aux juges dans l'appréciation de la légalité des
contenus en ligne.
 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=9011

Reporteros sin Fronteras denuncia el proyecto de Ley de
Economía Digital, aprobado en la Asamblea Nacional el 8 de
enero
La Asamblea Nacional aprobó en segunda lectura, el 8 de
enero de 2004, el proyecto de Ley de Economía Digital
(LEN), presentado por la Ministro de Industria, Nicole
Fontaine. El texto plantea varios problemas. Para empezar,
erige a los portales en auténticos censores del Net,
pidiendo a las empresas privadas que sustituyan a los
jueces en la apreciación de la legalidad de los contenidos
en línea. Después, el nuevo texto suprime la noción de
"correspondencia privada" en la definición del correo
electrónico, lo que podría tener graves consecuencias en el
respeto a la confidencialidad de las comunicaciones por
e-mail.
 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=9012

Frenchman sentenced in Senegal for Internet libel
A French national who ran an Internet website about Senegal
has been sentenced in his absence for libelling an official
in and hoteliers in the south of the country, legal sources
said.
 http://uk.news.yahoo.com/040107/323/eijv5.html

Condenado en Senegal un francés por difamación en un
website
Christian Costeaux, que se ocupaba del website
"www.senegalaisement.com", fue demandado por difamación por
el Ayuntamiento de Ziguinchor (importante localidad de
Casamance) y dos hoteleros del mismo lugar.

http://delitosinformaticos.com/noticias/107364277979856.shtml

Brazilians spend more on Internet than beans: study
Brazilians spend more money on the Internet and cable
television than on beans and rice even though fighting
hunger is a government priority, a study showed yesterday.

http://www.sabcnews.com/sci_tech/internet/0,2172,71770,00.html

The RIAA lawsuits against online music file sharers appear
to have had a devastating impact (Pew news release)
The percentage of online Americans downloading music files
on the Internet has dropped by half and the numbers who are
downloading files on any given day have plunged since the
Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) began
filing suits in September against those suspected of
copyright infringement.
 http://www.pewinternet.org/releases/release.asp?id=71
 http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/toc.asp?Report=109
(report)

.uk - Teen porn link found on Euro aid site
Internet surfers looking for details of European aid
programmes instead found themselves accessing pornographic
images of teenage girls.

http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0200wales/content_objectid=13791842_method=full_siteid=50082_headline=----Teen-porn-link-found-on-Euro-aid-site---name_page.html

'Aggressive' e-mail health threat
The health effects of "threatening" e-mails sent by bosses
to their workers has been revealed by researchers.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3376969.stm

.UK - Online grilling for McConnell
First Minister Jack McConnell is to go online to answer the
public's questions on a range of topics. The move into
cyberspace is aimed at making Scotland's top politician
more accountable.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/3385845.stm

‘The Western media is … very difficult to change’
Outspoken Singapore Intellectual and Minister George Yeo on
Singapore’s synapses, China’s syndromes and the Western
news media’s shortcomings.
 http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=6095

Indonesia cannot meet Internet target
The government unveiled on Friday its new strategy to boost
Internet use in the country, but admitted that it would be
impossible for Indonesia to meet the targets set at the
recent World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).
 http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=6311

UN to Set Up Working Group On Internet Governance
Sequel to the successful hosting of the World Summit on the
Information Society (WSIS), the United Nations (UN), would
soon set up a working group on Internet governance.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200401080298.html

.us - FCC cautious on Voice-over-Internet regulation
Rapidly expanding voice communications over the Internet
should be protected from excessive government regulation
and from being pigeonholed as simple phone service, the
Federal Communications Commission chairman said Friday.

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/01/09/telecoms.powell.reut/index.html

.us -  Why Spammers Laugh at CAN-SPAM
While the law promises big penalties, enforcement agencies
lack the resources to mount prosecutions and, just maybe,
get convictions.

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2004/tc2004017_2996_tc078.htm

Yale Conference on CyberCrime
Yale Law School's Information Society Project (ISP) will
present a conference on CyberCrime and Digital Law
Enforcement, taking place on March 26-28, 2004 at Yale Law
School.

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/home?wid=10&func=viewSubmission&sid=186

Media Literacy Goes to School (reg req'd)
We've wired our classrooms. Now what? Media Literacy
education is needed, kindergarten through college. The
question is what kind.

http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_jenkins010204.asp

Web opens up for learning disabled
Symbols software make sense of the internet for people with
learning problems.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3379547.stm

.au - New net banking scam
Customers of the nation's five leading banks are
unwittingly being siphoned of their savings online, after
logging on to official internet banking websites.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,8352771%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

China issues first batch of 50 Internet publishing licenses
China's National Copyright Administration (NCA) has issued
Internet publishing licenses to 50 companies, allowing them
to publish text, graphics and multimedia on the Internet,
an NCA official surnamed Zhou revealed to Interfax in an
interview.
 http://www.interfax.com/com?item=Chin&pg=0&id=5680018

Wi-Fi in 50 million homes by 2007 predicts study
An estimated 50 million homes in Europe, the US and Asia
will have Wi-Fi connections by 2007, according to a new
study.

http://www.silicon.com/networks/wifi/0,39024669,39117654,00.htm

SCO ready to hit Australian Linux users
The SCO Group is expanding its legal campaign against Linux
users around the globe.

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39118988,00.htm

Windows XP Home Edition vs. Professional Edition: What's
the difference?
With the inclusion of a new consumer-oriented version of
Windows XP, there has been some confusion surrounding the
differences between this product, Windows XP Home Edition,
and its more upscale sibling, Windows XP Professional
Edition. During a visit to Redmond in February where
Windows XP Beta 2 and the new Whistler ("Luna") user
interface was first unveiled, and in various meetings since
then, I've been able to discuss this new Windows version
with Microsoft executives and product managers. Beyond the
obvious--Microsoft is targeting Home Edition at consumers
and Professional at business users and power users--Group
Vice President Jim Allchin said that the company was
working hard to further differentiate the products. "With
XP, the home version is what it is," Allchin said. "But
where we're going, we've named them appropriately. In the
future, this will make more sense. We will do more value
add in Pro in the future."

http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_home_pro.asp


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