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

Child porn crackdown nets results
A police operation to crack down on internet paedophiles
has led to more than 1,200 arrests and 655 convictions, the
government has said.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3514950.stm

au: New laws planned against internet predators
Pedophiles who use the internet to procure children for sex
could face 15 years in jail under proposed new Australian
federal laws.
 http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/03/15/1079199130749.html

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,8966589%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html
 http://abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1065615.htm

How hard-core acquired a soft centre
In a week when nudity once again found its way into the
news, Philip French asks whether pornography has now
acquired a veneer of respectability.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/screen/story/0,6903,1168759,00.html

au: Police in racist email controversy
The NSW ombudsman will help police decide how to discipline
an officer who sent a racist email to his colleagues.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,8991718%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

au: Let the voyeur beware
Photographs of topless women and a couple of dirty jokes is
how Darrell Williams describes the content of the
pornographic and obscene emails that cost him his job at
Centrelink.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,8986067%255E28737,00.html

us: You've got porn!
You're minding your own business and checking your e-mail
when the naked people arrive in glorious, full-color glory
under the subject line "hi." Despite deleting these
messages every time, even returning a message to the sender
saying "Not interested," more porn arrives every day.
 http://www.portlandtribune.com/archview.cgi?id=23306

eu: La seguridad de los niños en la Red será combatida por
la Comisión Europea
Siguiendo con el trabajo que en este ámbito ha estado
realizando la Unión Europea con el fin de proteger a los
menores desde el año 1996, la Comisión Europea ha propuesto
que se adopte un nuevo programa que pretende combatir los
contenidos que puedan afectar a los menores, ya que cada
día el número de niños que acceden a Internet aumenta.

http://delitosinformaticos.com/noticias/107934918281289.shtml

us: Online vigilantes hunt down pedophiles
Five minutes into his Internet chat with a 14-year-old
girl, Ray Dooley's conversation turned from snowboarding to
sex. Dooley, 23, drove 50 miles the next day, apparently
expecting to see "Rachel." Instead, the Port Huron, Mich.,
man met a camera crew.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/internetprivacy/2004-03-16-online-vigilantes_x.htm

us: FBI wants to tap high-speed Internet
New surveillance proposals would require all US broadband
firms to rewire their networks.

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/networks/0,39020345,39148341,00.htm

http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/03/13/internet.wiretaps.ap/index.html

uk: 'Far-right' website investigated
The Home Office is investigating a website that publishes
the home addresses and telephone numbers of anti-racism
campaigners, politicians and journalists.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3544095.stm

uk: Net crime gangs try to cash in on UK festival
Britain's William Hill is the latest victim of a cyber
extortion wave targeting gambling web sites, this time
hitting the bookmaker on the eve of this week's Cheltenham
festival.
 http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/03/17/1079199270775.html

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=4581291

The World Meets the Internet
Representatives from a wide spectrum of government,
intergovernmental, private and what was termed "civil
society" organizations met at Geneva in December 2003 at
the first phase of the World Summit on the Information
Society (WSIS) to discuss the challenges and opportunities
presented by information and communication technologies
(ICT), in particular the Internet. In many ways, it was an
effort by the world community to begin defining the digital
agenda for the future. The primary focus was on use of the
Internet in meeting the needs of the least advantaged and
marginalized groups in society, but there may be more
profound effects stemming from this endeavor. Policies
adopted with an Internet agenda in mind may also have an
impact on future national and international laws and
policies in areas such as frequency allocations,
intellectual property rights, learning environments and
methodologies, provision of financial aid, cyber security,
spam, privacy, trade, taxation, and, more generally, the
management and dissemination of information.
 http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march04/lyons/03lyons.html

eBay halts auction of Vietnamese girls
eBay halted an auction last week and suspended a Taiwanese
user who allegedly tried to sell three Vietnamese girls on
the internet site for a starting bid of $US5400 ($A7341).
 http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/03/15/1079199130845.html

http://www.sabcnews.com/sci_tech/internet/0,2172,75753,00.html

http://onenews.nzoom.com/onenews_detail/0,1227,261144-1-454,00.html

cn: Reporters Without Borders supports family's appeal for
release of cyberdissident Yang Jianli
Reporters Without Borders is backing a family's appeal to
the Chinese authorities for the release of jailed
cyberdissident Yang Jianli, who is reportedly on hunger
strike in protest at prison conditions.
 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=9429
 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=8477 (Espanol)
 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=9540 (Francais)

kr: 'Netizens' go too far in denouncing impeachment
The National Election Commission (NEC) and the police on
Tuesday vowed to punish Internet users going too far in
slandering opposition party lawmakers for voting for the
impeachment motion against President Roh Moo-hyun.
 http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=8961

Australia jumps net threat list
Australia has jumped from 14th to fifth place in a global
ranking of the sources of internet attacks, a report finds.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,8975723%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

Privacy fears erode support for anticrime network
Matrix, a controversial multistate program that hoped to
find criminals or terrorists by sifting through databases
of public and private information, has lost more than
two-thirds of its member states and appears to be withering
under its critics' attacks.
 http://news.com.com/2100-7348_3-5173149.html

Privacy projects die quietly as government pushes ahead
with data-gathering research
In spite of protests, and a lot of noise from Congress
about the Pentagon gathering personal data from citizens,
the lawmakers have quietly approved more research into
high-powered data mining without approved privacy
protections.

http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=18400157

Aussie faces $68m piracy charges
A NSW Central Coast man accused of heading an Internet
piracy gang which plundered $US50 million ($68 million)
worth of music, film, game and software products faces the
prospect of a US jail term.

http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,8957483%255E421,00.html

ph: BSA monitoring 4 illegal online software vendors
The Business Software Alliance (BSA) is now monitoring the
activities of four suspected software pirates in the
Philippines who are illegally selling original software
through the Internet.
 http://www.inq7.net/inf/2004/mar/17/inf_1-1.htm

us: Screenshot prompts defamation claim
The New York Times is being sued by a pharmacy which argues
that it was defamed by implication, when a screenshot from
its web site was printed in connection with an article on
illegal sales of drugs over the internet, according to a
report by Law.com.

http://www.out-law.com/php/page.php?page_id=screenshotpromptsd1079349997

U.S. Threatens Action Against Online Gambling
Federal prosecutors have begun a wide-ranging effort to
curb the growing popularity of online gambling in the
United States by quietly threatening legal action against
American companies that do business with Internet casinos
and sports betting operations based outside the country,
lawyers and industry executives say.
 http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/15/technology/15GAMB.html

us: Decaf latte and a CD to go: Starbucks takes music
buying into the digital age
A new kind of record store opened in Los Angeles yesterday,
one that promises to fuse the digital technology of home
CD-burning with the West Coast passion for drinking
espresso coffee at every opportunity. At the Hear Music
Coffeehouse in Santa Monica, customers won't see
wall-to-wall banks of CD racks as in a normal music shop.
Instead, most of the space is taken up with 70 computer
terminals where customers are invited to browse at will
through more than 20,000 albums - about 150,000 tracks in
all.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=501946

http://news.findlaw.com/entertainment/s/20040316/leisurestarbucksmusicdc.html

us: P2P faces new legal scrutiny from states
Peer-to-peer companies are facing new and unwelcome
scrutiny from state prosecutors, in a recent development
powerful Hollywood lobbyists are backing.
 http://news.com.com/2100-1038_3-5173262.html
 http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,62665,00.html

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,8991664%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

us: States May Be Aiming at Web File Sharing
State attorneys general may be gearing up for action
against Internet file-sharing companies, with lobbyists in
the movie industry helping to write the declaration of war.
 http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/16/technology/16peer.html

Archive-friendly PDF in the works
Two of the largest bankruptcy filings in U.S. history —
Enron Corp. and Global Crossing — produced a record number
of PDF documents, which federal courts must figure out how
to archive and preserve.

http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2004/0315/news-pdf-03-15-04.asp

EU aims to improve net searching
Search engines that behave like humans is the ultimate goal
of a European-funded research project.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3516088.stm

Europe Considers Harsh Piracy Law
The European Union will likely enact a law to give local
police more power to seize the assets of suspected
intellectual-property thieves. Opponents say the law is
just too severe. Mat Schwartz reports from Paris.
 http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,62677,00.html

eu: Microsoft Nears End of Settlement Talks
Steven A. Ballmer, the chief of Microsoft, met with
Europe’s top antitrust official, Mario Monti, in an effort
to reach a settlement.
 http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/17/technology/17soft.html
 http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39149339,00.htm
 http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=4570219
 http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,62696,00.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1169862,00.html

Microsoft chief fails to clinch EU deal
Microsoft's chief executive failed to clinch a deal with
Mario Monti, European Union competition commissioner, over
the watchdog's anti-trust case against the software giant.

http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1079419675242&p=1057562182635

us: Powell Reassures India on Technology Jobs
Secretary of State Colin L. Powell said the Bush
administration would not try to halt the outsourcing of
technology jobs to India.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/17/international/asia/17POWE.html

Europeans take a shine to Google
Millions of Europeans are regular 'googlers', a study has
found.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3515620.stm

Search upstarts storm Google's gates
As speculation of a Google public offering hits a fever
pitch, would-be rivals are combing over the company's
business and technology for signs of weakness that could
cut short its reign as the king of Web search.
 http://news.com.com/2100-1038_3-5172198.html

In Searching We Trust
Ben Silverman is what you might call a Google obsessive. A
producer and a former talent agent best known for bringing
"Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" to American television, Mr.
Silverman Googles people he is lunching with. He Googles
for breaking news, restaurant reviews and obscure song
lyrics. He Googles prospective reality-show contestants to
make sure they don't have naked pictures floating around
the Web. And, like every self-respecting Hollywood player,
he Googles himself. Competitively.
 http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/14/fashion/14GOOG.html

PayPal Warns Its Customers To Safeguard Personal Data
Online payment giant PayPal warned users yesterday that
scam artists have obtained select customer aliases, mailing
addresses, e-mail addresses and transaction data by using
phony e-mails to fool retailers into revealing the
information.
 http://www.bizreport.com/article.php?art_id=6495

http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-rup16.6mar16,1,6169510.story

Honey, I Shrunk the URL
Among Web savants, TinyURL.com has become an indispensable
tool for shortening unwieldy URLs before dispatching them
in e-mails or IMs. They have a fanatical unicyclist to
thank for the site.
 http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,62637,00.html

Welcome to the 'new' Web, same as the 'old' Web
Do you remember the day you first surfed the Web, stretched
out your arms over the vastness of cyberspace, teleported
from site to site with an almost exhilarating power? Or
alternately, sat waiting for "fat" pages to load?
 http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/03/15/new.web/index.html

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