general internet news - 22 November

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

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CENSORSHIP, FILTERING & CONTENT REGULATION
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nz: Keeping safe on the internet
We are constantly told to take care when using the
internet - especially when it is used for banking,
which it is by 1.7 million New Zealanders. Close Up
sorts through the internet safety basics.
 http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411419/627258

GOVERNMENTS AND INDUSTRY JOIN FORCES TO TACKLE ONLINE
ABUSE (news release)
New guidance to protect children using chat rooms and
search engines will be published today by the Home
Office, which is also giving more details of a new
Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre to be
set up from next year.
 http://iwf.org.uk/media/news.147.htm

More Singapore curbs on blogs
Singapore has barred servicemen from posting
unauthorised accounts and pictures of military life on
the internet in a further tightening of restrictions
on the growing blogging community here.

http://smh.com.au/news/breaking/more-singapore-curbs-on-blogs/2005/11/21/1132421574687.html

CDT Urges Focus on User Empowerment to Protect Kids
Online
Leslie Harris, CDT's Senior Consultant and incoming
Executive Director, testified before a congressional
panel about the need to focus on user empowerment in
the ongoing effort to protect kids from viewing
inappropriate material online. At a Senate
subcommittee hearing titled 'Protecting Children and
Families in the Age of Convergence,' Harris pointed to
the findings of two panels charged by Congress with
addressing the issue. Both found that filtering
technologies and other user empowerment tools provide
the most effective means to limit the types of content
that children are exposed to online.
 http://www.cdt.org/headlines/835

Online Censorship Persists in North Africa And Middle
East - Report
A report released by the Human Rights Watch (HRW) has
revealed the prevalence of online censorship in
several Middle East and North African countries.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200511170837.html

iPod porn pains parents, employers
Commentary--Adult-oriented content historically has
been at the leading edge of various types of
technological development, from the early days of
photography, to home video players, to content
available on the Internet.
 http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1040_22-5956069.html

Software Blocks Internet Predators from Children (news
release)
Mike Simms sits at his computer typing in an Internet
chat room posing as a 15-year-old female. He has
gained the attention of several males, ranging in age
from 20 to 48, and one of them sends ?cyber have cam?.
Which means, want to have cyber sex? I have a web
camera. The chat session is instantly terminated. Mike
never saw that text, nor does he know why the chat was
suddenly dropped until he reads the log file that
documented the chat session.
 http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/11/prweb312719.htm

Open Net Initiative reports on filtering in Tunisia
The Open Net Initiative (ONI) has released its report
on filtering by the Tunisian government. The report
finds that the Tunisian government uses American
software to filter political speech it disagrees with,
and to limit access to proxies and anonymizers which
might allow Tunisian citizens to access political
speech or other blocked information. This approach
directly conflicts with the supposed goals of the
Tunisian government, and with the supposed goals of
WSIS.

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/home?wid=10&func=viewSubmission&sid=854

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LEGAL AND SECURITY
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au: Chat room robberies: man charged
A man has been charged over a number of armed
robberies linked to internet chat rooms, police say.

http://smh.com.au/news/national/chat-room-robberies-man-charged/2005/11/17/1132016897468.html

us: Boy, His Site and His Civil Liberties Lawsuit
Hey, kids: Wanna pocket a hundred large? First, set up
a Web site that criticizes your high school. Create a
guest book and let other students pile on. Then, let
the school officials find out about it and wildly
violate your civil rights by suspending you, kicking
you off the baseball team and barring you from going
on your class trip.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/12/AR2005111200151.html

Nigerian fraudsters jailed for scam
A court has sentenced two men to a total of 37 years
in prison for their part in defrauding a Brazilian
bank of $242 million (141 million pounds), the biggest
scam in Nigerian history, newspapers reported on
Saturday.

http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=10339658

us: Online dating services accused of fraud
If you search for a life partner with the aid of
online dating services, be careful - at least in the
US. That is the seeming message of two cases involving
well-known match-making agencies who are being sued
for fraud. They stand accused of either sending their
own staff on dates with customers, or of inventing
phoney subscribers to bolster business.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&ObjectID=10356272

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SPAM
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OECD Task Force on Spam background paper: "Anti-Spam
Regulation"  	
The "Anti-Spam Regulation" paper has been prepared
with the objective of aiding the development and
review of anti-spam legislation strategies and
arrangements in OECD member countries and non-member
economies. It provides a "checklist" of policy
questions and decision points that policy makers may
consider in their work. Without advocating a single
uniform approach, the document addresses the role of
the different players involved, and highlights the
importance of codes of conduct and the interaction
between governments, Internet Service Providers and
other Internet operators.
 http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/29/12/35670414.pdf

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INTERNET & NEW TECHNOLOGY USE
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Worldwide broadband subscriptions to hit 500m in 2010
? report
The United States and China lead the broadband market
in terms of the number of subscribers.
 http://www.dmeurope.com/default.asp?ArticleID=11376

Survey Studies Internet Use in China
A typical Chinese Internet user is a young male who
prefers instant messaging to e-mail, rarely makes
online purchases and favors news, music and games
sites, according to a new study.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/17/AR2005111700592.html

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2005-11-17-china-internet-survey_x.htm

Africa: Internet as a New Space for Continent's
Languages
Concerns that African languages could become extinct
are almost over. The internet is becoming a refuge for
the continent's languages that would otherwise become
extinct.
 http://allafrica.com/stories/200511180584.html

Online advertising
Small ads are flooding away from newspapers and onto
the internet

http://economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=5176305

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FILE SHARING
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au: Kazaa CEO goes to court
Cross-examined by recording industry lawyers about her
assets.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2005-11-17-kazaa-ceo-court_x.htm

uk: Further action against UK file-sharers
The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) has announced
65 new file-sharing lawsuits against large-scale
uploaders ? more than twice the number sued in each of
its previous filings. The trade body has now filed 153
actions since October last year.
 http://www.out-law.com/page-6356

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RESEARCH PAPERS
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The impact of search engines
A paper questions whether search engines make popular
sites more so

http://economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=5165407

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COMMENT, MICROSOFT & DEVELOPMENTS
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Fears over Big Brother stalked Gmail
In this latest extract from his book, David Vise looks
at why Google?s powerful e-mail service ran into a
storm of protest over privacy

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9075-1879562,00.html

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ARRESTS/COURT CASES FOR CHILD PORN
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nz: Councillor on child porn charges
Former boss of former District Councillor facing child
pornography charges gives evidence in court

http://home.nzcity.co.nz/news/default.asp?id=56961&c=w

au: Child porn charge
An East Maitland man has faced court on a child
pornography charge after being targeted by a national
police strike force.

http://maitland.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?class=news&subclass=local&story_id=438659&category=General%20News&m=11&y=2005

Gary Glitter arrested in Vietnam
Former glam rock star Gary Glitter has been arrested
in Vietnam where police want to question him about
alleged child sex offences. ... He was convicted in
the UK in 1999 of possessing child pornography and
served two months in jail.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4451992.stm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Observer/uk_news/story/0,6903,1646783,00.html

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