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au: Guards for the cyber playground
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2006/07/26/1153816248593.html
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/07/26/1153816248593.html
uk: Danger of webcams for children
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/5226724.stm
us: Chat rooms could face expulsion
http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6099414.html
nz: Police warn of email job-offer scam
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10393304
Report: U.K. failing to fight Net fraudsters
http://news.com.com/2100-7348_3-6099186.html
us: Senator blasts Homeland Security's Net efforts
http://news.com.com/2100-7348_3-6099753.html
us: Bills seek safer Internet
http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/chi-060728safe-internet,1,6905621.story
au: Net piracy lawsuit settled
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,19938121%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/07/27/1153816326515.html
au: Rivals concerned over Telstra broadband plan
http://www.abc.net.au/insidebusiness/content/2006/s1700751.htm
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CENSORSHIP, FILTERING & CONTENT REGULATION
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au: Guards for the cyber playground
Protecting children online is now big business with
the Federal Government spending more than $100 million
to help families.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2006/07/26/1153816248593.html
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/07/26/1153816248593.html
uk: Danger of webcams for children
A British children's internet charity has advised
parents to ban young people from using webcams in
their bedrooms.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/5226724.stm
us: Chat rooms could face expulsion
Web sites like Amazon.com and MySpace.com may soon be
inaccessible for many people using public terminals at
American schools and libraries, thanks to the U.S.
House of Representatives.
http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6099414.html
th: Web board banned, claim of lese majesty
The Midnight University web board, a popular online
academic forum, has been banned for containing
messages that insult the monarchy. The six-year-old
website, founded by prominent scholars from Chiang Mai
University including Prof Nithi Eawsriwong, was closed
down on Tuesday by the free website provider
Thaimisc.com.
http://asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=49971
az: Blog that satirizes President Aliev made
inaccessible
Internet users in Azerbaijan are currently unable to
access Tinsohbeti.com, a foreign-based satirical blog
with cartoons making fun of President Ilham Aliev and
his government, Reporters Without Borders said today.
The blog has been rendered inaccessible in the past,
forcing its publishers to change their Internet
address several times.
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=18416
us: Gmail Used For Hate Speech; Feds Examine Google
Records
Federal agents requested and retrieved records from
Google concerning a Gmail account that contained
threatening speech, Google Watch has learned.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1995742,00.asp
Book intends to combat cyber-bullying
To combat the trend of cyber-bullying, children's
advocate and best selling author Dandi Daley Mackall
has written a book called "Blog On! Grace Notes." The
book encourages girls ages eight and older to use the
Internet to connect with their friends in positive
ways. With the popularity of blogs and networking
sites like MySpace and FaceBook, school bullies have
an entirely new playground located online. To combat
the trend of cyber-bullying, children's advocate and
best-selling author Dandi Daley Mackall has written a
book called "Blog On! Grace Notes."
http://www.dddnews.com/story/1162045.html
us: Parents invited to learn more about children?s
safety concerning Internet
As I was reading the Muskogee Phoenix this morning
about how Muskogee Public Schools are using the
Internet to communicate with parents and then another
article on the rising use of instant messaging and
text messaging, I was reminded of a discussion last
week at a library meeting.
http://www.muskogeephoenix.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060730/LIFESTYLE/60730014
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CYBERCRIME, CYBERSECURITY AND PRIVACY
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nz: Police warn of email job-offer scam
Police are warning internet users of a new hoax email
variant involving false or misleading overseas job
offers. Constable David Burmeister, of Palmerston
North CIB, said the apparently genuine emails could be
in the form of doing charity work by disseminating
funds, or just a straight offer of "easy money".
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10393304
Report: U.K. failing to fight Net fraudsters
The U.K.'s Office of the Attorney General has said
that victims of Internet fraud often aren't able to
report the crime to the authorities, and that the
police often view fraud perpetrated against companies
as being victimless.
http://news.com.com/2100-7348_3-6099186.html
us: Senator blasts Homeland Security's Net efforts
A Republican senator on Friday blasted the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security's readiness for a
massive cyberattack, saying he hasn't seen any
improvements since bringing in department officials
for questioning last summer.
http://news.com.com/2100-7348_3-6099753.html
uk: Lifting the veil on internet voices
Police and intelligence agencies are lobbying hard for
means of snooping on internet-based telephony, arguing
that they need them to catch criminals
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1830460,00.html
us: Porn link case testing web freedom
INTERNET freedom is under threat in a legal battle
between Google and pornography publisher Perfect 10, a
prominent internet rights foundation says.
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,19938965%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html
Click Fraud: Google Comes Clean, Sort Of
Advertisers applaud a new tool that gives them a tally
of suspect clicks, but many are holding out for a new
ad model altogether
http://businessweek.com/technology/content/jul2006/tc20060726_355531.htm
us: Why employers are cracking down on e-mail
Employers are quite concerned about the legal and
financial risks caused by inappropriate employee
electronic communications. In fact, they are firing
employees who violate workplace computer policies.
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6098745.html
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GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC POLICY
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us: Bills seek safer Internet
It would be easier to track, arrest and convict
pedophiles who stalk minors online under legislation
introduced Friday with bipartisan support by Illinois
House Republican Leader Tom Cross.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/chi-060728safe-internet,1,6905621.story
us: Meta tag abusers face 20 years in prison under US
law
The US has passed legislation which controls what
website operators are allowed to put in their site
meta tags. The law bans the use of words which might
lead anyone to obscene content.
http://www.out-law.com/page-7142
uk: Lords explore internet security
The first Parliamentary inquiry into personal internet
security is being launched this week on what the House
of Lords describes as an issue of "ever increasing
importance to the public, businesses and Government".
http://www.out-law.com/page-7149
China toughens Web investor stance
China is trying to tighten control over foreign
investors in Internet ventures in a crackdown that a
state newspaper said Friday could see some companies
stripped of operating licenses.
http://businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8J531EG4.htm
tw: Taiwan modifies law to prevent online child sex
business
To stem the incidence of online child prostitution in
Taiwan, the government has amended the law to prevent
the child sex trade over the Internet, Huang Pi-hsia,
head of the Children's Bureau under the Ministry of
the Interior, said Tuesday.
http://english.www.gov.tw/TaiwanHeadlines/index.jsp?categid=10&recordid=97411
U.S. senator open to TV chat about Internet "tubes"
Mocked by comedian and host of "The Daily Show" Jon
Stewart for calling the Internet a bunch of tubes,
U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Stevens
said on Thursday he is open to appearing on the
popular cable television program for a rebuttal.
http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=12995148
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INTERNET & NEW TECHNOLOGY USE
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in: The sex files: Addiction to porn pictures and
films is ruining many married lives
Broken marriages, illicit sexual relationships and
even divorces, are some of the alarming outcomes of
the overdose of sexually explicit images, websites and
movies sprawled all over the modern-day media.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1808684.cms
uk: The rise of the cyber-children
BBC programme Click looks when children should start
using computers for the first time.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/5223192.stm
Will the cool kids go gaga for Bebo?
Can't wait for the current cycle of talentless pop
music to end? Bebo Bands wants to hear from you.
Social-networking site Bebo announced in early July
that its 25 million members would have unlimited
uploading and sharing of music files to its Bebo Bands
site. In the last two weeks, more than 25,000 bands
and tens of thousands of groupies decided to call Bebo
Bands their home, according to Bebo.
http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-6099260.html
MySpace for adults touts 18+ credentials
A predictable new MySpace-alike has been launched,
this time targeting the adult market. The company
behind Utherverse.com is trumpeting that only those
over 18 will be allowed to sign up, side-stepping
increasing concerns from parents about their offspring
being exposed to lurking paedophiles on the popular
Murdoch-owned social network.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/27/adult_myspace/
France's mysterious embrace of blogs
The French have brought their passion for debating and
protesting online and have become some of the world's
most intensive bloggers.
http://iht.com/articles/2006/07/27/business/blogs.php
What's up in Germany?
When it comes to the Internet, Germany is the European
economic engine that doesn't roar, at least for the
Web giant Yahoo.
http://iht.com/articles/2006/07/26/business/ptend27.php
Music TV battles to survive in Internet age
Music television is the endangered species of the pop
world, and is learning the hard way that it must adapt
to the Internet age, or die.
http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=13005616
us: Broadband subscribers soar: FCC
U.S. high-speed Internet subscriptions soared 33
percent last year to 50.2 million lines, according to
the latest data released by the Federal Communications
Commission on Wednesday.
http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=12973736
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FILE SHARING
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au: Net piracy lawsuit settled
THE company behind Kazaa - the software that made it
simple for millions of computer users to download
music and movies over the internet - will pay $US115
million ($151 million) to settle its epic court battle
with the global music industry.
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,19938121%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/07/27/1153816326515.html
au: Kazaa site becomes legal service
File-sharing site Kazaa will become a legal music
download service following a series of high profile
legal battles.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5220406.stm
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/27/kazaa_legit/
Kazaa pays £61m pirates' penance
Online music sharing service Kazaa is to go legitimate
by paying $115m compensation to the entertainment
industry for aiding millions of illegal downloads over
the past five years.
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1832180,00.html
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COMMENT, MICROSOFT & DEVELOPMENTS
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All the Internet?s a Stage. Why Don?t C.E.O.?s Use It?
Chief executives are inclined to avoid activities
generally deemed to be high-risk: Sky diving.
Motorcycle racing. And blogging.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/30/business/yourmoney/30digi.html
nz: History of the Internet in New Zealand (news
release)
The Internet Society of New Zealand, InternetNZ,
wishes to commission a history of the Internet in New
Zealand and is inviting
http://www.internetnz.net.nz/media/2006-07-26-history-project-release
In Microsoft Plan for Future, All Roads Lead to
Internet
The company detailed how it was spending heavily on
building Internet services into its products, but that
any payoff from the effort would not come for a few
years.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/28/business/worldbusiness/28soft.html
uk: Government figures show IT is more boring than
accountancy
IT is the fifth most boring profession in the UK. It
ranks as being more boring than engineering, banking
and accountancy according to the Workforce Boredom
Index produced by a government quango.
http://www.out-law.com/page-7146
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TELECOMMUNICATIONS
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au: Rivals concerned over Telstra broadband plan
Any hope Telstra had that the future might mean less
regulation seemed to evaporate late this week with the
announcement from the ACCC that it will extend its
policing and price fixing role in telecommunications
for another three years.
http://www.abc.net.au/insidebusiness/content/2006/s1700751.htm
us: The Phone Companies Still Don't Get It
They block competition and charge too much. You call
this a communications revolution?
One day this spring in San Antonio, I sat on a couch
to watch TV with two AT&T (T ) executives and three
public-relations aides. It's not a bad job, sitting on
a comfortable sofa in a pretty, air-conditioned brick
Tudor watching TV, and the way I got it was by telling
AT&T's PR folks that I was working on a story that
could wind up saying that in this age of enormous
technological upheaval, their very own behemoth was
not adding to innovation but standing in its way. No,
no, they said, that's all wrong. If only I could go
down and see AT&T's new video technology in action.
Some 200 participants in AT&T's test there were the
first beneficiaries of the great new network war, the
mega-telcos' drive into video. Come down to San
Antonio, they said, we'll take you to a customer's
house to show you.
http://businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_31/b3995070.htm
uk: Let slip the dogs of (broadband) war
Victor Keegan: The outbreak of "broadband wars" in the
UK - as big hitters such as Carphone Warehouse, Orange
and BSkyB compete to offer us cheap or "free" internet
access - is bound to boost this vital area of the
economy.
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1830471,00.html
uk: Consumer winner in broadband wars
High-speed internet access in Britain not only gets
faster every month, it gets cheaper as well. Companies
ranging from Rupert Murdoch's British Sky Broadcasting
to France Telecom SA are now letting surfers on to
their networks for nothing at all.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10393354
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VoIP
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uk: ISPA Industry Voices Discuss VOIP
Members should start warming up for the latest ISPA
legal forum, which will be held on the 27th September.
VOIP will take pole position as the topic under
discussion.
http://www.ispa.org.uk/news/page_273.html#DiscussVOIP
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ARRESTS/COURT CASES FOR CHILD PORN
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ca/uk: Porn suspect 'targeted' UK girls
Some 42 girls from Kent could be among the victims of
a man facing child pornography charges in Canada,
police in Ontario have said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/kent/5225610.stm
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060728/child_pornography_arrest_060728/20060728
uk: Dawn raids catch online child sex offenders
Dawn raids in five UK police regions have this morning
seen the arrest of 13 men and women all suspected of
being connected with commercial websites offering
images of child sex abuse.
http://iwf.org.uk/media/news.174.htm
U.S. Shuts Down Website Advertising Child Pornography
A website known as www.namgla.net was closed for
business Tuesday by the FBI as part of its Innocent
Images National Initiative targeting child pornography
networks operating globally using the Internet. The
announcement was made today by J. Stephen Tidwell,
Assistant Director In Charge of the FBI in Los
Angeles, in conjunction with FBI field offices around
the country and foreign law enforcement agencies
overseas. This website serviced an international
community of online predators where thousands of
graphic images of sexually abused children could be
shared.
http://communitydispatch.com/artman/publish/article_5735.shtml
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