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nz: Linked, at risk and online - Social networking
newest trend for young people
http://netsafe.theoutfitgroup.co.nz/isgnews/social_networking.aspx
au: Parents' chatroom fears rise
http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,19439680%255E911,00.html
us: Keeping Our Kids Internet Safe and Smart (news
release)
http://www.commonsensemedia.org/parent_tips/commonsense_view/index.php?id=139
Google Committed To Staying In China
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1974614,00.asp
Beijing says Internet companies in China must abide by
its laws
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/technology/14770952.htm
us: Big Brother is watching you
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19025556.200
us: Surveillance: It's Not Just Phone Calls
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_22/b3986068.htm
nz: MySpace lookalike touches nerves
The developers of a social networking site for Telecom
mobile phone customers that was due to launch this
week are adamant the service won't become a haven for
teen bullying.
http://stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3696492a28,00.html
Now It's Europe vs. Apple
http://businessweek.com/technology/content/jun2006/tc20060612_414966.htm
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CENSORSHIP, FILTERING & CONTENT REGULATION
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nz: Linked, at risk and online - Social networking
newest trend for young people
Recent Nielsen Net-ratings indicate that social
networking sites have grown 47% year on year, reaching
45% of all web users. Approximately 5% of all website
visits by New Zealanders are to social networking
sites and yet most of us have never heard of sites
like bebo.com, uncyclopedia.com or yearbook.com.
http://netsafe.theoutfitgroup.co.nz/isgnews/social_networking.aspx
http://netsafe.theoutfitgroup.co.nz/Doc_Library/publications/Microsoft_Word_-_social_networking_article_for_NZAC_may_06.doc.pdf
(the report)
au: Parents' chatroom fears rise
AN increasing number of parents are concerned about
their children's use of internet chat rooms.
http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,19439680%255E911,00.html
au: Libraries 'expose kids to porn'
INTERNET terminals in Victoria's public libraries
offer children "unrestricted access" to pornographic
websites, said conservative party Family First.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,19436684-29277,00.html
au: Do you know who your child is chatting to online?
(news release)
Would you allow your child to walk down the streets of
a foreign city in the middle of the night, greeting
and speaking with strangers? Chances are no. The same
principle should apply when your child is roaming
online.
http://www.netalert.net.au/03104-Do-you-know-who-your-child-is-chatting-to-online.asp
us: Keeping Our Kids Internet Safe and Smart (news
release)
This is the conclusion that jumped out at us from a
new national study we just conducted here at Common
Sense Media about parents? attitudes toward their
kids? online lives. While the results reflect the
heart of the dilemma facing parents all across the
country, we were astonished by how deeply polarized
they felt. To parents, the Internet is a double-edged
sword: On the one hand, parents feel that the Internet
offers their kids the greatest opportunity to learn
and grow. Yet, it also poses the greatest risk -- far
outpacing television.
http://www.commonsensemedia.org/parent_tips/commonsense_view/index.php?id=139
Blue Coat censorware company blocks BB for criticizing
censorware
Blue Coat, a censorware company, has blacklisted Boing
Boing because some of our entries criticize censorware
and describe the means by which it may be
circumvented. Boing Boing presently hosts nearly
28,000 entries, and fewer than 100 of those deal with
"proxy avoidance." Blue Coat has blocked the entirety
of the site.
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/06/03/blue_coat_censorware.html
us: Parents support Internet, but they worry, poll
shows
In a sign of how the media landscape is changing,
parents now are more concerned about what their kids
view online than what they watch on television.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/06/07/MNG2UJ9UOI1.DTL
Google Committed To Staying In China
Google Inc. is committed to doing business in China
despite criticism the company has faced for abiding by
Chinese government censorship restrictions, co-founder
Sergey Brin said.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1974614,00.asp
Beijing says Internet companies in China must abide by
its laws
China welcomes foreign Internet companies working in
China, but they must respect and abide by the
country's laws, including those on expression, the
Chinese Foreign Ministry said.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/technology/14770952.htm
China 'blocks' main Google site
Chinese authorities have blocked most domestic users
from the main Google.com search engine, a media
watchdog said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/5055170.stm
Google.com unreachable in China
US internet powerhouse Google said it was
investigating reports that Chinese web surfers had
been blocked from Google.com amid a reported
censorship crackdown.
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,19414604%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html
China Tightens Grip on Web
The French organization Reporters Without Borders
condemned the Chinese government Tuesday for its
increasing censorship of the internet.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/internet/0,71091-0.html
us: Grand Forks schools block MySpace Web site
The Grand Forks School District has blocked the
popular MySpace.com Web site on its computers, citing
safety concerns and negative behavior nationwide
linked to the site, including bullying and stalking.
http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/living/people/teens/14796978.htm
us: Online Games To Get 'X' Rating
The adult entertainment industry is on the verge of
making online gaming sexier at a time when mainstream
publishers are fighting a political and cultural war
over erotic content.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1974163,00.asp
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,19415293%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html
us: Sen. Clinton: Feds must help parents on video
games
The federal government needs to step in to ensure that
electronic media including video games isn't harming
children's development, Democratic Sen. Hillary
Clinton said.
http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6081268.html
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CYBERCRIME, CYBERSECURITY AND PRIVACY
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uk: New report reveals many sexual abusers willing to
seek help
A new report published today 6 June 2006 by Stop it
Now! UK and Ireland reveals that 45% of calls to its
Helpline are from people concerned about their own
sexual thoughts, feelings and behaviours towards
children. A further 35% of calls are from friends and
family concerned about the sexual behaviour of someone
close to them.
http://iwf.org.uk/media/news.167.htm
uk: Lewd office e-mails to constitute sexual
harassment
EMPLOYEES who send lewd jokes around the office by
e-mail or text message could land their companies with
unlimited compensation payments for sexual harassment.
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,20411-2219397,00.html
Web sites warned over photo of Jolie-Pitt offspring
The celebrity magazine Hello launched legal action on
Wednesday against Internet sites that printed a leaked
exclusive shot of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt with
their infant daughter.
http://news.com.com/2100-1026_3-6081063.html
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1795107,00.html
de: Higher Regional Court says online demonstration is
not force
Almost a year after the first-instance court of
Frankfurt sentenced the initiator of an online
demonstration against Lufthansa to pay a fine, the
Higher Regional Court has overruled the lower court's
verdict in its ruling of May 22 published yesterday
and found the accused not guilty. The judges mainly
questioned the definition of the use of force on which
the lower court had based its ruling.
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/73827
au: Police to get password powers
QUEENSLAND Police are to be given power to force
suspects to hand over passwords and encryption codes.
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,19373433%5E26199%5E%5Enbv%5E15306-15319,00.html
us: Appeals Court Sides With White House on Wiretaps
Companies that provide Web-based telecommunications
services must allow wiretapping by law enforcement
officials, a federal appeals court ruled yesterday.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/09/AR2006060900864.html
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=internetNews&storyID=2006-06-09T161148Z_01_WBT005523_RTRUKOC_0_US-TELECOMS-WIRETAPS-COURT.xml
us: White Lake Twp. man gets 6 years for eBay fraud
A man who listed hundreds of thousands of dollars
worth of figurines for sale on eBay, but took the
money without delivering the goods, was sentenced to
six years and two months in prison by a federal judge.
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060606/BIZ04/606060354/1013
us: Google ducks lawsuit over search rankings
Google has dodged a lawsuit filed by a California man
who claimed his Web site rankings precipitously and
unfairly dropped.
http://news.com.com/2061-10803_3-6080784.html
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GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC POLICY
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us: Big Brother is watching you
If you are one of the millions of people using social
networking websites such as MySpace and Friendster, be
careful what you reveal about yourself. The US
National Security Agency is looking at ways to harvest
the information that people post about themselves on
such networks. It could use advances in internet
technology to combine the data with personal details
such as banking, retail and property records, allowing
it to build profiles of individuals. The idea is to
identify terrorists and other criminals, but privacy
groups worry that this hi-tech snooping could lead to
miscarriages of justice.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19025556.200
http://www.smh.com.au/news/security/us-snoops-eye-social-networks/2006/06/12/1149964445014.html
us: Surveillance: It's Not Just Phone Calls
How the government sidesteps the Privacy Act by buying
commercial data from little-known players like NeuStar
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_22/b3986068.htm
us: Freedom fighter with a guilty conscience
Lawrence Lessig explains his mission to limit the
cultural damage caused by copyright law
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1792117,00.html
eu: Idea for Electronic Message Tax Prompts Swift
Outcry in Europe
The mere mention of taxing messages by a French member
of the European Parliament was enough to ignite the
blogosphere and industry lobbying groups.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/12/technology/12email.html
us: House rejects Net neutrality rules
The U.S. House of Representatives definitively
rejected the concept of Net neutrality on Thursday,
dealing a bitter blow to Internet companies like
Amazon.com, eBay and Google that had engaged in a
last-minute lobbying campaign to support it.
http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6081882.html
us: Explaining net neutrality by Susan Crawford
I've been working steadily for quite a while on a
paper comparing the IP battles to the network
neutrality battle. As we've all discovered, these are
very hard issues. There aren't clear answers,
although the social benefits of the neutral-substrate
internet (like the social benefits of the public
domain) seem to be ignored by the people claiming the
need for protection of their property rights.
http://scrawford.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2006/6/6/2010861.html
us: New Law To Protect Kids On Internet
Gov. Bill Owens signed a bill into law Wednesday
making it a felony to solicit kids online. The new law
also makes it a felony to possess child pornography.
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/9337984/detail.html
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INTERNET & NEW TECHNOLOGY USE
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nz: MySpace lookalike touches nerves
The developers of a social networking site for Telecom
mobile phone customers that was due to launch this
week are adamant the service won't become a haven for
teen bullying.
http://stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3696492a28,00.html
uk: Billy Bragg prompts Myspace rethink
Myspace says it's revising its legal terms and
conditions after songwriter Billy Bragg withdrew his
songs from the website in protest.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/08/blly_bragg_myspace/
au: Macabre email ring uncovered
THREE hospital workers, including a mortuary
assistant, have been fired for circulating more than a
dozen pictures showing dismembered bodies, porn and
sadomasochistic acts.
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,19391826%5E15441%5E%5Enbv%5E15306-15319,00.html
us: How We Use the Web Today
A new study presents one of the clearest pictures of
how people get their fill of Web-based media,
especially at work
http://businessweek.com/technology/content/jun2006/tc20060608_845575.htm
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FILE SHARING
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no: iTunes guilty of breaking Norwegian law
The Norwegian Consumer Ombudsman has ruled that the
Apple iTunes service breaks the law, and has given the
company two weeks to fix the problem.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/07/norway_rules_itunes_unfair/
no: Apple iTunes gets fight in Norway
Norway's Consumer Ombudsman has filed a complaint with
Apple's music download sales service iTunes, arguing
that the transaction terms violate Norwegian law.
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1342991.ece
Now It's Europe vs. Apple
The Continent's regulators are scrutinizing the
success of Apple's digital media platform, claiming
that iTunes should be compatible with all MP3 players
http://businessweek.com/technology/content/jun2006/tc20060612_414966.htm
iTunes legal attacks spread from France
Government consumer protection agencies in Norway,
Denmark and Sweden want Apple to lift restrictions on
playing music from iTunes on rivals' devices.
http://iht.com/articles/2006/06/08/business/apple.php
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COMMENT, MICROSOFT & DEVELOPMENTS
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uk: Our future is on the Net, says BBC's chief
It may be 84 years old, but that doesn't mean that the
BBC is stuck in the past, the corporation's head has
insisted, saying that the Internet is the way forward
for the broadcasting giant to remain globally
relevant.
http://iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=115&art_id=qw1150010104633B635
http://www.smh.com.au/news/web/the-internet-is-our-future-bbc-chief/2006/06/12/1149964446497.html
us: The Pornographers vs. The Pirates
Smut giants are showing mainstream Hollywood how to
fight back: Jason Tucker is one of a new breed of
pornographers. As president of Falcon Foto, he
publishes such skin-baring magazines as Hometown Girls
and Virgins. But his résumé hardly reads like that of
a typical gold-chained smut king. A slight 33-year-old
with spiked hair, Tucker came to the X-rated world
after a failed Hollywood career that included a gig in
film production and parts as a youngster on TV shows
such as a Little House on the Prairie spin-off. Adult
entertainment was a fallback for the self-described
geek who bounced from Tinseltown to work as a
consultant advising large tech companies about the
skin trade's technology needs.
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_25/b3989088.htm
IBM chief calls for end to colonial companies
Sam Palmisano, head of IBM, called on multinationals
to evolve into a new type of corporation if they are
to avoid an anti-globalisation backlash that leads to
the election of governments hostile to the interests
of big business.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/aa447f34-f973-11da-8ced-0000779e2340.html
EBay to unveil further Skype tie-ins
Online marketplace eBay Inc. is set to detail on
Tuesday how it plans to combine its Skype Web
telephone-call service into its core U.S. auction
business, executives said.
http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=12492367
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TELECOMMUNICATIONS
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>From the telco point of view by Susan Crawford
>From the telco point of view, "consumers" are
connected to "content" over the internet by three
different pipes: (1) the big connection between
"content provider" and a backbone; (2) the backbone
itself (the biggest pipe of all); and (3) the
connection between the "consumer" and the backbone.
http://scrawford.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2006/6/11/2024543.html
au: Coonan spells out $3.1bn net plan
THE federal Government will target two or three
large-scale broadband projects with funding of up to
$3.1 billion as it grapples with ways of bring
high-speed internet access to rural and regional
Australia.
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,19414276%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html
uk/nz: Want to know where UK Broadband stands?
Compiling data from the broadband markets around the
world is always difficult, but InternetNZ commissioned
a report comparing residential and business broadband
in 26 OECD countries, the report can be downloaded
from www.internetnz.net.nz. The report offers lots of
information that people may want to discuss further,
or ask questions about, and feel free to do so on our
forums here.
http://www.adslguide.org.uk/newsarchive.asp?item=2683
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VoIP
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Court says US gov can keep on snooping on VoIP calls
US courts ruled last week that authorities can
continue tapping VoIP calls and that providers must
give them access to their networks.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/12/bush_listens_to_voip/
Good Prospects for VoIP
THE sudden interest in VoIP has heightened over the
last two years because of the immense opportunities
that it presents in terms of cost savings,
productivity gains, operational efficiencies, new
applications and business functionalities.
http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/534544/good_prospects_for_voip/index.html
VOIP Scam Highlights Growing Security Issue
When federal law enforcement officials arrested two
individuals June 7 for running a scam in which they
allegedly sold discount voice-over-IP services
delivered secretly over other companies' networks,
experts who have been sounding the alarm over growing
VOIP security issues finally got the proof they've
been waiting for.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1974346,00.asp
us: VoIP security alert
A $1m hacking case in the US has exposed the threat to
internet calls
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,20411-2221355,00.html
us: The Inside Story of A Million-Dollar VoIP Scam
A Miami man allegedly defrauded Internet voice
providers to the tune of $1 million, with a
sophisticated hacking scheme. Here's the inside story
of exactly how he did it.
http://www.networkingpipeline.com/news/188702745;jsessionid=LJ12JSW2AOWECQSNDLOSKH0CJUNN2JVN
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