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http://www.ntu.edu.sg/sci/sirc/ Internet in Asia blog: http://sirc.blogspot.com/ *************************************************** CENSORSHIP, FILTERING & CONTENT REGULATION ****************************************** Reporters Without Border condemns mistreatment of cyberjournalists and webloggers Reporters Without Borders has condemned the mistreatment in prison of online journalists and webloggers after an Iranian committee report concluded that public confessions of two of them, Omid Memarian (photo right) and Rozbeh Mir Ebrahimi (photo left), were obtained under duress. Weblogger Mojtaba Saminejad and online journalist Javad Gholam Tamayomi are still in prison. http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=12246 us: Bullying, respect for differences go hand vs. hand Jan Pomeroy, program coordinator for Youth First, has a message for parents: It�s not the teacher, but parents who are responsible for the success of their children. http://www.anokacountyunion.com/2005/January/6youth.html us: Experts: Parents need to monitor closely Internet use by children Parents need to monitor what their kids are doing on the Internet to keep young users from becoming the prey of pedophiles. http://timesargus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050108/NEWS/501080358/1003 us: Tenn. town becoming a cybersex trap Jewel is 15, 5-foot-5, has auburn hair and is bored. So she visits Internet chat rooms. In reality, Jewel does not exist. She was the creation of Officer David Posey, a middle-age, chain-smoking bulldog of a man who engineered the arrests of three Alabama men who await trial on charges they came to this small town to have sex with the teen after meeting her in a chat room. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2005-01-05-tenn-sting_x.htm Netting paedophiles The 'what do we do about online paedophiles?' debate has taken a new turn in the UK, with a controversial proposal by Donald Findlater, deputy director of child protection charity the Lucy Faithfull Foundation and former director of the Wolvercote Clinic residential treatment centre for paedophiles. http://inquisition21.com/article53.html Cyber Crime: Combating Internet Child Pornography The Innocent Images National Initiative, a part of the FBI's Cyber Crimes Program, is an intelligence driven, proactive, multi-agency investigative initiative to combat the proliferation of child pornography and child sexual exploitation facilitated by an online computer. The IINI provides centralized coordination and analysis of case information that by its very nature is national and international in scope, requiring unprecedented coordination with state, local, and international governments, and among FBI field offices across the country. http://www.michnews.com/artman/publish/article_6294.shtml China fearful of net China shows no sign of easing up on its tough stand against the internet after an article in the country's leading Communist Party magazine warned that the net threatened the culture of China. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/06/china_internet_fears Straining for Novel Positions A sex site whose twist is getting straight men to have at each other -- no, really, they're straight -- shows internet porn is changing the rules. http://wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,66192,00.html ******************* LEGAL AND SECURITY ******************* au/ru: Police Charge Students With Internet Scam Four Sydney high school students have been charged in connection with a Russian-based Internet scam that stole people's banking passwords and siphoned their cash into accounts in eastern Europe, police said. http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050107/ap_on_re_us/australia_internet_scam_1 http://abcnews.go.com/Business/FinancialSecurity/wireStory?id=392901&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312 http://news.findlaw.com/ap_stories/other/1110/1-7-2005/20050107090015_15.html http://tvnz.co.nz/view/news_technology_story_skin/467454?format=html uk: IWF Contribute to Arrests (news release) Reports submitted to the Internet Watch Foundation online hotline have contributed to two arrests and convictions. http://iwf.org.uk/media/news.102.htm us: Three students accused of stalking on the Web Deputies arrested three high school students following a weeklong investigation into the teenagers' Internet habits and booked them with cyber stalking. http://www.nola.com/newsflash/louisiana/index.ssf?/base/news-13/1105019953192640.xml&storylist=louisiana http://www.theneworleanschannel.com/news/4054723/detail.html http://www.katc.com/Global/story.asp?S=2773367&nav=EyB0UtWL http://www.dailycomet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050106/APN/501060724 in: Cracking cyber crime: Delhi Police at a Net lossAdd to Clippings With all the marvels of IT, a downside had to come along. Business organisations are busy updating their fire-proofing almost on a monthly basis, official sites keep an eye out for hackers and intelligence agencies hone in on terrorist "chatter" through a web of hundreds of satellites. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/971741.cms Tsunami Disaster Relief Fraud Alert! Don�t be scammed. (news release) Why should we be surprised? Criminals are using email and websites to siphon charitable contributions for tsunami victims into their own pockets. http://www.fbi.gov/page2/jan05/tsunamiscam010505.htm FBI warns of Internet scams after tsunami The Federal Bureau of Investigation warned of Internet scams claiming to raise funds or help locate survivors of Asian tsunamis. http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050107/ts_alt_afp/asiaquakeusfbiaid_050107154255 http://crime-research.org/news/08.01.2005/884/ http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/UNID/76CF7F814FBD9E1ECC256F81006F7C90 http://stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3148996a28,00.html Internet se solidariza con las v�ctimas del Maremoto del Sudeste Asi�tico http://delitosinformaticos.com/noticias/110492973936180.shtml us: Trial begins for baseball fan accused of hijacking e-mail addresses The lawyer for a disgruntled sports fan accused of sending thousands of angry e-mail messages that appeared to be from Philadelphia sportswriters acknowledged that his client is "maybe psychologically fanatical" about the Philadelphia Phillies. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2005-01-04-philly-fan-email_x.htm ****** POLICY ****** ph: Intensified drive vs child pornography rings vowed The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has vowed to intensify its campaign against child pornography rings this new year. http://www.mb.com.ph/MTNN2005010425668.html Philippines cybercrime bill to cover cell phones The latest draft version of a cybercrime bill that will be filed to The Philippines' Congress next year will cover not only computers and computer networks but mobile devices as well. http://crime-research.org/news/05.01.2005/878/ ca/us: Canada considers limiting cross-border Internet pharmacies Canadian health officials are drafting a proposal to prevent Internet pharmacies from selling mail-order prescription drugs to U.S. consumers, a spokesman said Wednesday, a move that would essentially kill a $700 million industry that has become increasingly popular with patients south of the border. http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/10573280.htm ***** SPAM ***** us: A Year of CAN SPAM The CAN SPAM Act of 2003 went into effect a year ago on Jan 1, 2004. As of that date, spam suddenly stopped, e-mail was once again easy and pleasant to use, and Internet users had one less problem to worry about. Oh, that didn't happen? What went wrong? http://www.circleid.com/article/888_0_1_0_C/ ************ INTERNET USE ************ uk: New Year's texting breaks record A record 133m text message were set on New Year's Eve, bringing the total for 2004 to over 25bn. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4148899.stm http://news.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml?xml=/connected/2005/01/03/ecntxt05.xml&sSheet=/connected/2005/01/05/ixconn.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1383733,00.html uk: Internet Connectivity October 2004 The latest monthly update to the survey of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) shows that between October 2003 and October 2004 there was a 4.3 per cent increase in the number of active subscriptions to the Internet. The index increased by 0.3 per cent between September and October 2004 to 132.4, and has now increased for two consecutive months, but is still a little below the peak of 133.1 in March 2004. http://www.gnn.gov.uk/content/detail.asp?ReleaseID=139805&NewsAreaID=2&NavigatedFromSearch=True us: Most Active Web Users are Young, Affluent The majority of young, affluent Web users are male, on broadband, and "super net vets." http://www.clickz.com/stats/sectors/traffic_patterns/index.php de: Internet costs down Yapping away on the phone costs slightly more and surfing the Internet was slightly cheaper last year, the Federal Statistics Office said on Wednesday. http://www.faz.net/s/Rub9E75B460C0744F8695B3E0BE5A30A620/Doc~E46AF03705AD144CDBD55FEDFBC555414~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html ****************** ONLINE MUSIC & P2P ****************** uk: Pop single downloads outstrip shop sales Pop singles undergoing unexpected renaissance as figures show downloads have overtaken CD sales for first time. http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1385686,00.html ************************ COMMENT, MICROSOFT & DEVELOPMENTS ************************ Democratizing the Net Larry Lessig, Stanford Law Professor and author of the recent book, Free Culture, was featured on yesterday's NPR show, The Connection. Lessig described recent trends of content lockdown on the internet. "The rules governing music and images and motion pictures are not the same in reality as the rules that govern text," he explained. These problems are coming to a head in new blogs that offer multimedia content (take podcasting, for example). While digital technology has catalyzed new forms of creation like satirical cartoons, remixed music, and entertaining images, emerging laws threaten to stifle these possibilities. Lessig described Creative Commons, a project he co-founded that offers a range of copyright licenses for creators who want to preserve their rights to share and re-use material. http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/home?wid=10&func=viewSubmission&sid=646 OECD Report: ICT, Skills and Employment This report forms part of the 2004 OECD Information Technology Outlook, and is the first in a series of reports looking at the distribution of ICT skilled employment in the economy, various ways in which ICT skills needs can be satisfied, and the role of ICT-skilled employment in international services sourcing, or offshoring. http://www.oecd.org/document/22/0,2340,en_2649_37409_34238742_1_1_1_37409,00.html OECD Report: ICT Diffusion to Business: National Peer Reviews These reports review the status of diffusion of ICT to business in individual countries and describe current and previous policies aimed at ICT uptake in firms. Reviews of Finland, Italy, Korea, Norway and Switzerland are currently available. http://www.oecd.org/document/6/0,2340,en_2649_37409_34227910_1_1_1_37409,00.html OECD Report: ICT, E-Business and Small and Medium Enterprises The main policy directions derived from the analysis are to foster appropriate business environments for e-business and ICT uptake, and target programmes to overcome market failures to the extent that they are needed in particular areas. http://www.oecd.org/document/54/0,2340,en_2649_37409_34229494_1_1_1_37409,00.html A why-oh-why about Wi-Fi Computer chips for �open-spectrum� devices are a closed book http://economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3535732 Games win for Blu-ray DVD format The next-generation DVD format Blu-ray is winning more supporters than its rival, according to its backers. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4153813.stm us: Gates unveils his digital vision Bill Gates has opened the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, saying that gadgets are working together more to help people manage multimedia content around the home and on the move. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4150719.stm us: Gates ensures he will be top of the pile The consumer electronics industry is looking forward to five years of impressive growth as consumers replace their analogue cameras, video recorders, music players, radios and other devices with digital versions. http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1385175,00.html The day the Net became a worldwide lifeline On-line technology brought together searchers and family, donors and relief agencies http://globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050106.wtsunet0106/BNStory/Technology/ ********************************** ARRESTS/COURT CASES FOR CHILD PORN ********************************** uk: Pc arrested in child porn probe A police officer has been arrested and suspended from duty after a child porn swoop on Tyneside. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/tyne/wear/4148781.stm http://crime-research.org/news/06.01.2005/881/ uk: Shame of child porn barrister A leading North-East barrister's career was in ruins last night after he admitted downloading thousands of child pornography files to his computer. http://icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/thejournal/tm_objectid=15044971&method=full&siteid=50081&headline=shame-of-child-porn-barrister-name_page.html hk: Hong Kong-based Briton cleared of child pornography charge A Hong Kong-based Briton has been acquitted of possessing child pornography, a charge stemming from 106 lewd images found on his home computer, his lawyer said Sunday. http://asia.news.yahoo.com/050109/ap/d87gajho4.html us: Florida police say hooker turned in john after seeing child porn at his home Police in Florida say they have a prostitute to thank for helping nab a man on child pornography charges. http://www.kron4.com/Global/story.asp?S=2779188 http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/01/07/national/main665549.shtml http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/4060823/detail.html http://www.washtimes.com/upi-breaking/20050107-100833-3743r.htm us: Man sentenced for child porn A 28-year-old Topeka man was sentenced Friday to 10 years in federal prison for producing child pornography. http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/10594720.htm?1c us: Man gets 12-year term for peddling child porn An Indianapolis man was sentenced to more than 12 years in federal prison for distributing child pornography. http://www.indystar.com/articles/2/207953-3942-009.html us: Harnett man charged with having child porn A Harnett County man is facing charges after authorities found child pornography in his home. http://rdu.news14.com/content/headlines/?ArID=61800&SecID=2 us: School Employee Caught With Child Pornography Two miles from where Ryan Klimek's brother plays basketball is Hazel Green High School. Classes don't start back until Wednesday. But over the holiday break, students learned an interesting lesson. A teacher's aide at the school has been charged with having child pornography. http://whnt19.com/Global/story.asp?S=2760096 us: Hearing Set For Man Facing Child Porn Charges A pre-trial hearing is scheduled for Friday for a Warr Acres man who faces 89 counts of child pornography. http://www.channeloklahoma.com/news/4056986/detail.html us: Police arrest man on child porno charges A Coffee County man is jailed on child pornography charges. Police in Enterprise said 56-year-old Robert Clayton Browers, also of Enterprise, was arrested yesterday (Wednesday) afternoon and charged with possession of child pornography. http://www.whnt19.com/Global/story.asp?S=2774841 http://www.wtvynews4.com/home/headlines/1338101.html us: Huntsville headmaster fired in FBI pornography probe The Huntsville Christian Academy headmaster was fired while under investigation by the FBI for allegedly having child pornography on his school computer. http://tuscaloosanews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050105/APN/501051172 http://www.whnt19.com/Global/story.asp?S=2768953 us: Clergyman Busdriver Indicted On Child Porn Charges A Cincinnati-area school bus driver was indicted Wednesday on charges that he received and possessed images of child pornography. http://www.onnnews.com/Global/story.asp?S=2771681&nav=LQlCUscw us: Authorities arrest man, 38, attempting to meet girl, 13 A 38-year-old Feasterville man is charged with attempting to meet and have sex with a 13-year-old girl in Upper Chichester, Delaware County, police said Wednesday. http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/113-01062005-427657.html us: Man begins sentence in child porn conviction A 67th Street man was sent to jail Thursday for the first six months of a 10-year probation term for possession of child pornography. http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20050108/8051528.asp us: Officer retires amid allegations of illegal pornography A Brownsville police sergeant under investigation for allegedly downloading pornography on a city-owned computer will retire from the force Jan. 31. http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/ts_more.php?id=63107_0_10_0_M us: Ex-coach allegedly said he molested girl A former Clovis youth softball coach arrested this week on charges of possessing and distributing child pornography also allegedly confessed to molesting a young girl over a period of two years. http://www.fresnobee.com/local/story/9728952p-10602373c.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Check out http://auda.org.au/domain-news/dn-news for the latest domain news. 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