general internet news - 28 April

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

EU draws up Bill to protect children from Internet porn
EU Communication Ministers intent on protecting children
from online pornography and racism have welcomed an
Internet safety Bill put forward by the European
Commission.

http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Saturday/World/20040424072445/Article/indexb_html
 http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;?storyID=4912050

http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,9364414%255E15322,00.html

Researchers Join Forces to Expose Net Censorship
An international team of academics from the Berkman Center
for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, the
University of Cambridge, and the University of Toronto has
begun monitoring worldwide Internet censorship and
surveillance.
 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/newsroom/release2004-01

Child porn remains on the Internet
Up to 75% of all child porn production are spread over the
Internet. According to law enforcement data, about 90% of
international investigative commissions, issued by
Interpol, are related to this kind of computer crime. World
child porn industry, knowing about gaps in Russian laws,
tends to place more and more resources on the Russian
Internet.
 http://www.crime-research.org/news/23.04.2004/231

cn: Paper: Shanghai Net Cafes to Be Monitored
Authorities are installing video cameras and high-tech
software in Shanghai's Internet cafes and bars to make sure
customers don't look at forbidden Web sites, a state-run
newspaper reported Thursday.

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/8492345.htm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1200862,00.html

cn: Cyberdissident Yang Jianli, a US resident, marks two
years in prison without being sentenced
Thirty-five members of the US Congress have already signed
a petition for the release of Yang Jianli, arrested on 26
April 2002. Reporters Without Borders also calls on the
President of the European Parliament, Pat Cox, to press for
his release.
 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=9937 (English)
 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=9930 (Francais)

tn: Ocho internautas condenados sin pruebas
Ocho internautas fueron condenados, el 6 de abril de 2004,
a penas que llegan hasta 26 años de cárcel. Están acusados
de fomentar atentados terroristas, pero la acusación no
aportó ninguna prueba para apoyar esa tesis. El acta de
acusación se basa únicamente en algunos documentos
descargados de Internet.
 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=9911

us: Pouncing on suburbs' pedophiles
A swim coach in Barrington. A tutor and coach in Crystal
Lake. Cary's village attorney. An Aurora police officer.
The list of area child pornography arrests, officials say,
is getting longer, faster.

http://www.dailyherald.com/search/main_story.asp?intid=3810331

us: Man Pleads Innocent to Internet Stalking
A South Carolina man arrested on an Internet stalking
charge has pleaded innocent in U.S. District Court.
 http://www.bizreport.com/article.php?art_id=6966
 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/26/internet_stalking/

us: Irvine Doing AlyTV
A week after its online premiere, AlyTV will feature Adult
Sites Against Child Pornography executive director Joan
Irvine as the main guest, when Irvine appears Thursday,
April 29, at 12 noon PDT.

http://www.avn.com/index.php?Primary_Navigation=Articles&Action=View_Article&Content_ID=81681

us: N.C. grant will help fight Internet crime
The exploitation of children through the use of the
Internet may be on the rise nationally, but in Sampson
County, Sheriff Jimmy Thornton said such complaints are
small, but could easily increase as more adults and
children log on to the Internet. As crime fighting moves
into the technology age, so does the criminal. The growing
problem of people exploiting children has increased with
the rising popularity and accessibility of the Internet.

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1117&dept_id=88453&newsid=11389274&PAG=461&rfi=9

us: Cybertipline report leads to three-year national child
pornography investigation
Law enforcement officials discussed the course and future
of a three-year national child pornography investigation
today in Dallas, Texas. The investigation resulted from a
tip that came into the National Center for Missing &
Exploited Children's (NCMEC) CyberTipline.

http://ncmec.org/missingkids/servlet/NewsEventServlet?LanguageCountry=en_US&PageId=1582

us: Department of Justice, National Center for Missing &
Exploited Children Launch Effort Aimed at Misleading Domain
Names
As part of an ongoing effort to crack down on websites that
deceive minors into viewing pornographic and obscene
materials, the U.S. Department of Justice and the National
Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) announced
today that the National Center's CyberTipline, a reporting
mechanism for child sexual exploitation, will now feature
the ability to receive reports from the public on
misleading Internet domain names.

http://ncmec.org/missingkids/servlet/NewsEventServlet?LanguageCountry=en_US&PageId=1573

us: New Fight to Protect Exploited Children Online
The International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children
launched a new campaign against online child pornography
Thursday morning backed with a $1 million contribution from
philanthropist Sheila C. Johnson and Microsoft.
 http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3344161

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/04-22-2004/0002157589&EDATE=

http://www.detnews.com/2004/technology/0404/25/technology-131529.htm

us: Court backs Internet predator conviction
A federal appeals court has upheld the conviction of an
Oakland man who used the Internet to contact someone he
believed to be a Walnut Creek teen for sex.

http://www.timesstar.com/Stories/0,1413,125~1486~2095828,00.html

us: Porn inquiries affect service providers
For $9.95 a month, a small company offered access to a
search tool that would scour electronic bulletin boards for
millions of “uncensored” movies and photographs.

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/nation/8497000.htm?1c

Google's chastity belt too tight
Despite claims of "advanced proprietary technology," the
search giant's opt-in porn filter proves no better than the
primitive tools of the last decade, blocking many harmless
sites.

http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/business/0,39023166,39145911,00.htm

Anti-Semitic site drops off Google
An anti-Semitic Web site that inspired numerous protests
mostly disappears from the search king's results--for now.
 http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5200203.html

http://www.silicon.com/networks/webwatch/0,39024667,39120280,00.htm

au: Employees 'waste time online'
Many companies and organisations worldwide are suffering a
loss of productivity, with employees spending hours surfing
websites that are irrelevant to their work, according to an
IT specialist.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,9366901%5E15397%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html

ie: Judge Curtin acquitted
Judge Brian Curtin, who was accused of possessing child
pornography, walked free from Tralee Circuit Court on
Friday after Judge Carroll Moran instructed the jury to
return a "not guilty" verdict.

http://www.emigrant.ie/article.asp?iCategoryID=9&iArticleID=29895

http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Sunday/World/20040425074642/Article/indexb_html

us: Rape suspect 'lied' to state on foster parent
application
When he applied to become a foster father to young boys,
Ronald Harold Young -- now accused of raping the youths
entrusted to his care -- neglected to mention his own
father's criminal history of child sexual abuse. He also
requested character references from friends who would have
no knowledge of his family's troubled past.
 http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/170404_foster23.html

au: ASIO monitored web use
ASIO used computer tracking software to close in on accused
terrorist Faheem Khalid Lodhi and recorded every keystroke
he made while he explored websites with links to aerial
views of Sydney, authorities will allege.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,9370870%5E15319%5E%5Enbv%5E15306,00.html

ua: an ordered through the Internet murder was prevented
Officers of the SSU (Security Service of Ukraine) prevented
an ordered through Internet murder in Dnepropetrovsk
region, Ukraine. This murder was allegedly ordered by a
woman, citizen of the Netherlands.
 http://www.crime-research.org/news/20.04.2004/221

Internet littered with hate speech
The Internet's integrity is never more compromised than
when hate sites pose as innocent information sources, but
someone is looking out for this.
 http://www.sundaytimes.co.za/business/technology/Tech4.asp

au: Playboy appears on 3
Fans of Playboy can put away their brown paper bags for
good, with Hugh Heffner's adult empire now available on
mobile phones.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,9365801%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

us: 14% of Internet users say they no longer download music
files
The recording industry campaign against those who download
and swap music online has made an impact on several major
fronts, but the number of Americans downloading music and
sharing files online has increased, according to the most
recent survey of the Pew Internet & American Life Project.
 http://www.pewinternet.org/releases/release.asp?id=80

us: Americans Head Back Online For Music
An estimated 6 million people have stopped downloading
copyrighted music from the Internet over fears that they
may sued by the recording industry, but the overall number
of Americans who download music is rising with the
popularity of iTunes, Napster and other legitimate online
music services, according to a survey released today by the
Pew Internet & American Life Project.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41467-2004Apr25.html

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,9391876%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

France vows piracy crackdown
FRANCE'S culture minister, Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres,
vowed his country will get tough with illegal copiers of
music and films, saying such piracy threatened French
creativity.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,9391875%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html
 http://uk.news.yahoo.com/040425/323/erya7.html

ca: Weak enforcement undermines privacy laws
At a recent meeting of Canadian privacy professionals, the
United States' approach to privacy was derisively
characterized as amounting to little more than a privacy
policy placebo, a reference to the reliance on privacy
policies under the U.S. system.

http://www.torontostar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1082371887273&call_pageid=968350072197&col=969048863851

Google's Gmail Is Great, but Not for Privacy
The service will offer oodles of storage, wide open to law
enforcement snoops.

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/apr2004/tc20040426_6986.htm

BGH: Spam unter Mitbewerbern ist wettbewerbswidrig
Nach einem Urteil des Bundesgerichtshofs vom 11. März 2004
(Az. I ZR 81/01) verstößt die unerbetene Zusendung von
Werbung enthaltenden E-Mails gegen die guten Sitten im
Wettbewerb und stellt eine unzumutbare Belästigung dar.
Ausgangspunkt der Entscheidung ist ein Streit zwischen zwei
Internet-Dienstleistern, die zueinander im Wettbewerb
stehen. Die Beklagte hatte Ende 1998 über ein Dutzend
unangeforderte gewerbliche Newsletter an verschiedene
Mail-Accounts der Klägerin versandt.
 http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/46627

us: US defends cybercrime treaty
Critics took aim this week at a controversial international
treaty intended to facilitate cross-boarder computer crime
probes, arguing that it would oblige the US and other
signatories to cooperate with repressive regimes - a charge
that the Justice Department denied.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/24/us_defends_cybercrime_treaty
 http://www.crime-research.org/news/27.04.2004/243

uk: Cybercrime law to get revamp
The government is set to update Britain's lone cybercrime
law, a 1990 pre-Web relic widely regarded as inadequate to
deal with growing computer criminality.

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=4952122

us: Computer Student on Trial for Aid to Muslim Web Sites
Not long after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, a
Saudi Arabian doctoral candidate held a candlelight vigil.
Today, that graduate student is on trial.
 http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/27/national/27BOIS.html

http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-na-briefs27.1apr27,1,2119027.story

zw: Understanding the Digital Divide
WHEN you get home today connect to the Internet and do a
search for "Development in Africa". What? You don't have a
computer? You're not connected to the Internet? OK, let's
try something else. Take out your cellphone and call your
cousin/brother/mother/boyfriend in the UK and say hello.
Arrgghh! you scream. Too expensive? Welcome to our side of
the divide.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200404230948.html

fr: Google in Adwords strife
AXA, the world's No. 3 insurer, is taking Google to court
next month in the latest trademark challenge to threaten
the heart of Google's business model — advertising.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,9391878%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=4938540

Scandinavia consolidates lead in fifth annual Economist
Intelligence Unit e-readiness rankings
Download the report for free. The full report The 2004
e-readiness rankings is available for free download.
 http://eb.eiu.com/site_info.asp?info_name=err2004

SPAM and Phishing
The Anti-Phishing Working Group has published a new
Phishing Attack Trends Report (March 2004).

http://www.antiphishing.org/APWG_Phishing_Attack_Report-Mar2004.pdf

Singapore Arrests Three in Software Piracy Raid
Singapore police have arrested three men as part of a
U.S.-led global crackdown on piracy networks that
distribute copyrighted music, movies and software over the
Internet.
 http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;?storyID=4921693

Raids Shutter Online Piracy Sites
U.S. and international law enforcement authorities on
Wednesday conducted a series of raids against Web site
operators suspected of distributing more than $50 million
worth of pirated music, movies and software, a move the
U.S. Justice Department described as the largest-ever
crackdown on online piracy.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34438-2004Apr22.html

Text and e-mail messaging slaughtering grammar: Experts

http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/communications/0,2000061791,39145760,00.htm

Can the Technology Industry Grow Bigger, Not Just Older?
Sort through the daily celebrations, wailing,
teeth-gnashing and brow-furrowed ruminations that
accompanied the avalanche of quarterly earnings reports
over the last couple of weeks, and one theme seems pretty
clear: tech is back. Profits for the technology companies
in the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index soared 64 percent
in the first quarter, compared with 24 percent for the S.&
P. 500 over all.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/25/business/yourmoney/25earn.html

Going After Google
As rivals close in, the world's hottest tech company and
leader in Web searches is revving up its engine as never
before.

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/apr2004/tc20040423_5973.htm

EU report takes Microsoft to task
A record fine imposed on Microsoft in Europe last month
arose from the longstanding nature of the software
company's anticompetitive practices, according to a massive
report from European regulators.
 http://news.com.com/2100-1016-5197411.html

us: Senate Mulls Permanent Internet Tax Ban
The Senate Monday took up a proposal to permanently ban the
taxation of Internet access, a move that supporters say
would encourage the deployment of high-speed Internet
service but opponents argue could result in billions of
dollars in lost revenue for state and local governments.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44833-2004Apr26.html

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2004-04-26-senate-taxban-bill_x.htm

Bowie asks fans to bootleg songs
David Bowie has asked bedroom DJs to create a new track for
an internet competition by bootlegging his songs.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3659143.stm
 http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/04/27/1082831535361.html

CNET offers free music downloads
Online technology company CNET Networks Inc. has today
launched a free digital music service, allowing users to
search and download what it says are thousands of songs
contributed by independent and unsigned artists.

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=4940358
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