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And see my website - http://technewsreview.com.au/ - for daily updates in between postings. *************************************************** The domain name news is supported by auDA *************************************************** I Google, therefore I am losing the ability to think http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jun/22/googlethemedia.internet eBay's small sellers rebel http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/retailing/article4187869.ece EBay Tries to Buy a Little More Love from Sellers http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/20/ebay-tries-to-buy-a-little-more-love/ au: eBay defies ACCC on PayPal issue http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2008/06/20/1213770890771.html Firefox 3 scores 8.3M downloads http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9099978 The mobile revolution's hidden cost http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/06/19/The_mobile_revolutions_hidden_cost-IDGNS_1.html China's censorship of Web unacceptable - EU http://uk.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUKSIN30210920080620 EU: Public Consultation: Age Verification, Cross Media Rating and Social Networking http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/sip/public_consultation/index_en.htm au: Education revolution worries teachers http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,23889276-15319,00.html On the front line in child porn war http://www.stuff.co.nz/4591558a11.html FBI rescues child porn ring victim after NZ tip-off http://www.stuff.co.nz/4591233a11.html California pols ask ISPs to block child porn http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9973966-7.html Swedish law allows tapping of emails and phone [AP] http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/20/2 Sweden's contentious 'Big Brother' law gets the go-ahead http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article4173030.ece Yahoo-Google deal faces scrutiny: antitrust experts http://uk.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUKN1833443320080619 ********************** RESEARCH PAPERS ********************** Offshore Porn is a Flimsy Excuse by Cheryl B. Preston Abstract: Congress's efforts to protect children from online pornography have been stymied again. On remand from the Supreme Court, the district court in ACLU v. Gonzalez found the Child Online Protection Act (COPA) underinclusive, among other defects, because it was not applicable to a large amount of material that is unsuitable for children which originates overseas but is nevertheless available to children in the United States. (ACLU v. Gonzales, 478 F. Supp. 2d 775, 810 (E.D. Penn. 2007). The problem of offshore porn has been repeatedly raised by legislators and commentators, as well, as an excuse for not taking responsibility for finding a reasonable and constitutional solution in the United States. This paper argues, first, that lack of extraterritorial reach is not a legitimate ground for finding a congressional enactment unconstitutional. Second, Internet service providers (ISP) in the United States may easily employ technology that block IP Addresses from countries that fail to regulate sexually explicit content at the request, and only with respect to the accounts, of those customers who wish to avoid the risk. Third, an effective regulatory scheme enforced against all who serve sexually explicit material to minors from within the jurisdiction of the United States and which would curb a sufficiently large segment of the Internet pornography problem can be justified. Fourth, the opportunity to reach U.S. customers and do business in U.S. cyberspace is economically valuable. Many website owners would be willing to comply with U.S. law to be permitted to reach families and children. Moreover, the U.S. government can offer incentives for compliance. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1146653 The Internet and Pornography: What If Congress and the Supreme Court Had Been Comprised of Techies in 1995-1997? by Cheryl B. Preston [Michigan State Law Review] Abstract: The legislative and political choices at the birth of the information technology society caused and will likely continue to cause significant ramifications in the course of digitizing human culture. This article considers both the positive and negative ways that the crash of the Communications Decency Act (the CDA), as well as Congress and the Supreme Court's understandings of the Internet at the time, may influence subsequent technological, legal, and social developments involving the World Wide Web. This article explores answers to these questions: What we can assume about Congress and the Supreme Court's Internet understanding in 1995-1997? What if the 104th Congress and the Supreme Court that dealt with the CDA had been more tech-savvy? Would Congress have written a better, tighter statute or none at all? What sorts of technological advancements might have been allowed to flourish, and what sorts would have stalled? Would the U.S. government have kept a tighter hold on the ability to enforce violations of law in the Domain Name System? Would the Court have framed its analysis differently, even if it ultimately ruled that the CDA was unconstitutional? How might the lives of members of the Net Generation played out differently? http://ssrn.com/abstract=1147142 Making Family-Friendly Internet a Reality: The Internet Community Ports Act by Cheryl B. Preston [Brigham Young University Law Review] Abstract: The time has arrived to work together to find a reasonable balance among the values of the First Amendment, the appeal of an unfettered technological frontier, the right to be free of unwanted speech, and the right of parents to have the aid of the government in protecting children from age-inappropriate sexually explicit content online. One objective of this Article is to stimulate the discussion and the innovation necessary to arrive at some solution. In this Article, I provide an overview of one suggestion, the Internet Community Ports Act (ICPA). ICPA is devised to provide nation-wide support for the effective implementation of Internet zoning technology. ICPA allows parents to make meaningful choices concerning their children's access to sexually graphic material, while still allowing adults to publish and access any legal content online. ICPA relies on channeling content among the over 65,000 Internet ports rather than, as is the current practice, sending virtually all content together over just a handful of ports. ICPA does not prevent any willing adult from speaking or hearing any legal speech. Rather, it gives citizens the option of requesting from their Internet service provider only those ports on which material that is harmful for minors may not be posted. http://ssrn.com/abstract=1146651 Zoning the Internet: A New Approach to Protecting Children Online by Cheryl B. Preston [Brigham Young University Law Review] Abstract: This Article considers how Internet architecture can be harnessed to create an online environment where government regulation of material harmful to minors can be effective but not unreasonably burdensome. It proposes a solution that engages technology in refocusing the point of regulation, thereby reducing the burden on speech and increasing the ability to achieve constitutionally recognized governmental objectives. This Article briefly examines failed congressional attempts to restrict children's access to sexually explicit content online, and then introduces the Internet Community Ports Concept, which relies on channeling technology to divide kinds of content among various Internet ports. After briefly outlining the technological workings of the Internet, this Article describes the Internet Community Ports Act (ICPA), which supports and enforces the zoning divisions. Together technology and legislation can create safe places for children and families on the Internet. The bulk of the Article discusses the constitutional implications of ICPA and how it will survive even strict scrutiny. Finally, it responds to a variety of other issues, such as market disincentives to separating content, the failed Dot Kids approach, the risk of chilled speech, stigma, and over-blocking, and the problems with filters. http://ssrn.com/abstract=1147163 Self Produced Child Pornography: The Appropriate Societal Response to Self Exploitation by Mary Leary [CUA Columbus School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper] Abstract: One need only read the newspaper to see a rising dangerous phenomenon among juveniles: the creation and subsequent sharing via the Internet of sexually explicit photographs. This "self exploitation" is not only a tragic social problem, but a growing legal one as well. Judges, attorneys, and legislators, are forced to address this activity because, in addition to being self destructive, it is also a violation of state and federal child pornography laws. Juvenile self exploitation illustrates a clash of two lines of jurisprudence and public policy: the aggressive opposition to child pornography and the more lenient rehabilitative treatment of juvenile self destructive behavior. This article offers an in depth analysis of the appropriate societal and governmental response to this behavior and, specifically, whether juvenile prosecution should remain an option for the state. The article analyzes all the growing number of cases in this area; other legal models including criminal child pornography laws, child prostitution laws, and statutory rape laws; the doctrinal bases for governmental intervention in juveniles' lives; as well as numerous social science studies concerning child pornography's effects. Among those most closely examined are the social harms recognized by social science, the courts, and legislatures. The article concludes that, based upon the vast social harms caused by child pornography to children within and exposed to the images, the purpose of the juvenile justice system, and the need for a deterrent to this behavior, juvenile prosecution should remain an option for the state. While prosecution should not be mandatory, policy makers should create a policy and protocol for addressing this self destructive behavior. The article concludes with a proposed protocol offering guidance to policy makers as to when prosecution befits the activity and when it does not. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1147183 ********************** INTERNET USE ********************** I Google, therefore I am losing the ability to think 'Is Google Making Us Stupid?' was the provocative title of a recent article in the US journal The Atlantic. Its author was Nicholas Carr, a prominent blogger and one of the internet's more distinguished contrarians. 'Over the past few years,' he writes, 'I've had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory. My mind isn't going - so far as I can tell - but it's changing. I'm not thinking the way I used to think.' http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jun/22/googlethemedia.internet eBay's small sellers rebel Every year, thousands of people from around the world descend on an American city to spend the weekend discussing everything from bubble wrap to counterfeit goods and the Russian mafia at eBay Live, the online auction giant’s annual jamboree. The get-together has always been a fun affair, with silly hats and jokey T-shirts, but there was never any disguising that eBay is a serious business. With 233m customers worldwide, the world’s largest online retailer sold $60 billion (£30 billion) of goods last year. http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/retailing/article4187869.ece EBay Tries to Buy a Little More Love from Sellers With thousands of eBay’s most active sellers converging on its eBay Live convention in Chicago, the embattled online flea market is trying to give both sellers and buyers a little more to win back their loyalty. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/20/ebay-tries-to-buy-a-little-more-love/ au: eBay defies ACCC on PayPal issue eBay appears to be gearing up for a public court battle with the competition regulator over the auction site's move to force all sellers to use only PayPal for accepting electronic payments. http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2008/06/20/1213770890771.html http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/06/20/1213770890771.html Firefox claims download success Mozilla is claiming a download record for the release of Firefox 3.0. In the first 24 hours the web browser was available the software was downloaded more than eight million times, says its creator Mozilla. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7462900.stm Update: Firefox 3 scores 8.3M downloads More than 7 million users downloaded Mozilla Corp.'s Firefox 3.0 Web browser during the first 24 hours after its launch, according to the company. http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9099978 Study: Mobile Web browsing more popular with men Far more men than women surf the Web on their mobile phones, reports a new survey. According to the State of the Mobile Web report, which was conducted by Web browser developer Opera, 88% of all mobile Web users are male. The report also highlighted that the mobile Web is most popular with the 18-27 age group -- 39% of all users fall into this category -- while 34% of users are aged 28 to 37. http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9101438 ********************** NEW TECHNOLOGIES ********************** One tonne 'Baby' marks its birth The Small Scale Experimental Machine, or "Baby", was the first to contain memory which could store a program. The room-sized computer's ability to carry out different tasks - without having to be rebuilt - has led some to describe it as the "first modern PC". http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7465115.stm The mobile revolution's hidden cost As mobile phone sales pass the 3 billion mark, is it time to survey the full reality of the technology's environmental impact? Late last year, the mobile phone industry passed a remarkable milestone, one that not so many years ago it didn't even expect to reach. Media sites and blogs around the world buzzed as the news was announced with equal measures of excitement, amazement and, in some cases, guarded jealousy. We'll never know who it was, or where it was, but on that day someone, somewhere bought a mobile phone and tipped global sales past the 3 billion mark. "More than half the world's population now own a phone" was a typical headline. http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/06/19/The_mobile_revolutions_hidden_cost-IDGNS_1.html ********************** DIGITAL DIVIDE ********************** za: Digital Divide Poses 'Biggest Challenge' EDUCATION's biggest challenge today is bridging the divide between those born into a digital world and those who were not, says Steven Naudé, MD of Pearson Education. http://allafrica.com/stories/200806200435.html ************************** ONLINE CRIME, SECURITY & LEGAL ************************** First Cybercrime Confab Seeks Security Measures As the menace of cybercrime continues to ravage the economy, an anti cyber crime campaign organisation, Global Network for Cyber solution, is collaborating with the Federal Ministry of Justice and the National Information Technology Development Agency NITDA to ensure digital national security. http://allafrica.com/stories/200806190148.html ************************** PRIVACY ************************** Phorm to use BT customers to test precision advertising system on net The first live trial of the controversial Phorm internet advertising system is expected to start imminently with the participation of up to 10,000 BT broadband customers. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/phorm-to-use-bt-customers-to-test-precision-advertising-system-on-net-851133.html ********************** ONLINE TV & MUSIC ********************** Comment: France's anti-piracy law is like holding a tissue up to the breeze Using heavy-handed tactics with ISPs is only latest in a line of tactics to defeat online piracy - and it won't work: Oh dear. It feels like the year 2000. Once again the music industry is resolved to protect its property against the threat of illegal downloads - this time with the help of ISPs and some prodding from the French Government. http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article4164216.ece ********************** CENSORSHIP ********************** China's censorship of Web unacceptable - EU EU's telecoms chief Viviane Reding said on Friday that China's censorship of the Internet was "unacceptable" and that the Beijing Olympics were a chance for the country to show its commitment to free flow of information. Reding, who is the European Commissioner for Information Society and Media said she regards the Internet as a free medium for expression and any curtailment of that is limiting the citizen's right to information. "People should be free to receive information, we do not think blocking of sites for political reasons is the right way to proceed," Reding told Reuters. http://uk.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUKSIN30210920080620 http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/feedarticle/7598551 'Chinese YouTube' shut down amid censor fears One of the most popular video-sharing websites in China has been shut down, prompting fears the Government may be tightening its control over the internet. http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article4179103.ece ************************************************ CHILD PROTECTION, FILTERING & CONTENT REGULATION ************************************************ EU: Public Consultation: Age Verification, Cross Media Rating and Social Networking The European Commission has launched a public consultation on: Age verification; Cross media rating and classification; Online social networking. The purpose of the public consultation is to gather the knowledge and views of all relevant stakeholders (including public bodies, child safety and consumer organisations, industry). The gathered information will be fed into this year's Safer Internet Forum 2008, which will be dedicated to the above mentioned topics. http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/sip/public_consultation/index_en.htm au: Education revolution worries teachers TEACHERS want more training, better technology and more support to take full advantage of the digital revolution sweeping through the education sector, a survey has found. http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,23889276-15319,00.html On the front line in child porn war This very minute, people in New Zealand are downloading child pornography, visiting Irish porn-buster Mick Moran says. Victims were getting younger and younger, with many now aged under 18 months. "We are seeing a massive increase in pre-speech children being abused. Why? Pre-speech can't tell." http://www.stuff.co.nz/4591558a11.html FBI rescues child porn ring victim after NZ tip-off Internal Affairs Department censorship inspectors who sparked a two-year probe of a sophisticated internet paedophile ring have seen a tortured child involved rescued by American police. http://www.stuff.co.nz/4591233a11.html California pols ask ISPs to block child porn California's governor and attorney general are asking Internet service providers to help stop the dissemination of child pornography. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. issued a press release Friday asking Internet service providers in California to follow the lead of Verizon Communications, Time Warner Cable, and Sprint in "removing child pornography from existing servers and blocking channels" that disseminate the illegal material. http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9973966-7.html Many teachers uncomfortable with the internet, survey finds [AAP] TEACHERS in the schools Kevin Rudd wants to fill with computers recognise the importance of the digital revolution - but aren't confident about using the internet. http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,23888875-2682,00.html Using Filmmaking to Fight Online Harassment Debbie Heimowitz employs the power of movies to promote online empowerment and awareness. Join the conversation on the latest form of bullying. http://www.edutopia.org/filmmaking-bullying-harassment-cyberbullies ************************** GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC POLICY ************************** Sweden approves wiretapping law Sweden's parliament has approved controversial new laws allowing authorities to spy on cross-border e-mail and telephone traffic. The country's intelligence bureau will be able to scan international calls, faxes and e-mails. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7463333.stm Swedish law allows tapping of emails and phone [AP] Sweden has adopted legislation that will give officials sweeping powers to access all email and telephone traffic within its borders. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/20/2 Sweden's contentious 'Big Brother' law gets the go-ahead Sweden's bitterly contested "Big Brother" law, allowing the Government to spy on cross-border e-mail traffic, has been passed into law after a late-night session of Parliament. http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article4173030.ece US Congress Strikes Deal to Overhaul Wiretap Law After months of wrangling, Democratic and Republican leaders in Congress struck a deal on Thursday to overhaul the rules on the government’s wiretapping powers and provide what amounts to legal immunity to the phone companies that took part in President Bush’s program of eavesdropping without warrants after the Sept. 11 attacks. http://nytimes.com/2008/06/20/washington/20fisa.html Flirty texting could land Scots in jail for 10 years Scots face up to 10 years in jail for sending text messages or emails with sexual content. Scotland's just-published Sexual Offences Bill contains stiff penalties for any sexual messages whose intent is to humiliate the recipient. http://out-law.com/page-9194 Center for Democracy & Technology Urges Rejection of FISA Bill Compromise [news release] The Center for Democracy & Technology today urged Congress to reject legislation to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that is expected to be voted on in the House tomorrow and in the Senate next week. The legislation, H.R. 6304, the FISA Amendments Act, fails to give the FISA court adequate authority to ensure that Americans are protected against unjustified surveillance of their communications. It also effectively provides immunity to telecommunications carriers that assisted with warrantless surveillance for years after September 11, 2001. http://cdt.org/press/20080619press.php ********************************* COMMENT, MICROSOFT & DEVELOPMENTS ********************************* Yahoo-Google deal faces scrutiny: antitrust experts Google Inc and Yahoo Inc face intense U.S. Justice Department scrutiny of their deal to share some advertising revenue, and the heat will likely increase under a new administration, antitrust experts said. http://uk.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUKN1833443320080619 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/18/AR2008061802516.html Icahn to soften his approach as Yahoo! investors get nervous Billionaire Carl Icahn is expected to tone down his attack on Yahoo! dramatically by slashing the number of directors he plans to nominate to join the troubled internet company's board. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jun/22/yahootakeover.yahoo ********************************** ARRESTS/COURT CASES FOR CHILD PORN ********************************** au: Porn loner had nappy dress-up fetish A LONER who had almost 48,000 images of child pornography on his computer has a fetish for dressing as a female baby. 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