From owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Sun Dec 3 07:33:45 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ns.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id HAA80358; Sun, 3 Dec 2000 07:33:44 +1000 (EST) Received: from mail3.ntu.edu.sg (mail3.ntu.edu.sg [155.69.1.91]) by ns.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA80332 for ; Sun, 3 Dec 2000 07:33:41 +1000 (EST) Received: by mail3.ntu.edu.sg with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Sun, 3 Dec 2000 05:33:19 +0800 Message-ID: <1DD1B50DBE02D311909900805FA7424B02AD6F59@exchange5.ntu.edu.sg> From: "Ang Peng Hwa (Assoc Prof)" To: "''APPLe ' '" Subject: RE: Japanese Net law Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 05:33:08 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Precedence: bulk The following is an extract from Newsbytes about the new Japanese Net Law. Any comment from Japanese readers of this list? Will the law achieve its intention? Are there problems in the law? Etc. Regards, Ang Peng Hwa Japan Passes Sweeping Bill Promoting E-Commerce The Japanese government passed overarching legislation aimed at bolstering the "Information Network Society" by boosting education and Internet access and removing legislative obstacles to e-commerce growth. The legislation's primary role is to create a "scheme to establish policies to create" a pro-information technology legislative environment. 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To: APPLe MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Precedence: bulk Hi all A number of stories I've collected over the past week relating to Asia and labelling/filtering/race that may interest some and in no particular order. Probably something here for everybody. Cheers David Nazi ruling no threat to free speech (ZDNet) 28Nov http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2658173,00.html Free-expression advocates cried foul last week when a French judge ruled that it's illegal for Yahoo to sell Nazi memorabilia over the Web in France. The ruling was flawed for many reasons, not the least of which is that it is difficult if not impossible to enforce without censoring a chunk of modern-day history. Japan's Men Date Hot, Sexy Bots (Wired) 28Nov http://www.wirednews.com/news/culture/0,1284,40369,00.html At least 30,000 Japanese men are happily practicing their romantic skills by attempting to virtually woo and win a girlfriend via a mobile phone matchmaking service. Germany Investigates Yahoo's Nazi Auctions (TechWeb) 28Nov http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20001128S0010 German prosecutors are investigating local Yahoo executives over charges the company's online auction service sold copies of Adolf Hitler's autobiography, which is restricted in Germany. Manfred Wick, senior prosecutor for the Bavarian state court in Munich, said that Yahoo's German site sold copies of Mein Kampf on Feb. 1 and Apr. 19 of this year. Yahoo! Nazi tech expert backtracks (Register) 28Nov http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/15063.html One of the three Internet experts that decided it was technically possible to prevent French users from accessing parts of Yahoo! US' auction site has posted an apology on his own Web site, saying that the solution is "half-assed and trivially avoidable". Yahoo 'boo-hoos' criticism (ZDNet) 28Nov http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/dailynews/story/0,2000011358,20107291,00.htm Despite recent criticism on several fronts, Yahoo Australia has defended its sister sites, fighting back on issues relating to the selling of Nazi memorabilia on auctions sites and illegal activities in chat rooms. Court rules against personal Web site (South China Morning Post) 30Nov http://technology.scmp.com/internet/daily/20001129162815158.asp A Beijing court ruled that personal Web sites are infringing on other people's copyrights when they post unauthorised material and that the site designer bears legal responsibility. Mainstream Sites Serve as Portals to Hate (New York Times) 30Nov http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/30/technology/30HATE.html Earlier this month, in a cramped airport lounge in San Jose, Calif., two seemingly unrelated parties sat down to talk about hate. On one side of a conference table sat researchers from the Simon Wiesenthal Center, an organization in Los Angeles dedicated to the marginalization of groups like the Ku Klux Klan. On the other sat representatives of Yahoo, arguably the most popular site on the Web and, at that moment, home to dozens of online clubs with names like White Knights of the K.K.K. Report: kids selling porn in playground (ZDNet) 30Nov http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/dailynews/story/0,2000011358,20107304,00.htm An Australian university study has revealed that pornographic material downloaded from the Net is being sold by children in the playground. Some kids are distributing explicit CD-ROMs and floppy disks to make a quick buck. Could employers ban personal email? (ZDNet) 30Nov http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/dailynews/story/0,2000011358,20107296,00.htm The British Chamber of Commerce has warned that employers may ban workers from sending personal emails to avoid legal liability, in light of a draft code of practice from the UK Data Protection Commission. US stricter than Europe at monitoring kids online (ZDNet) 29Nov http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/2000/47/ns-19370.html American children are more likely than European kids to have their activities on the Web monitored by parents according to a global survey on Internet use amongst young people. Internet use rising fast in Europe (Independent) 29Nov http://www.independent.co.uk/news/Digital/Update/2000-11/internet291100.shtml Internet penetration in European households surged this year and is approaching U.S. levels, according to a report for the European Union Commission. The report, to be officially released Thursday, found that households using the Internet rose in the 15?nation bloc from 18 percent in March to 28 percent in October, a 55 percent surge in the last six months. EU Report: Internet Use Surging (Washington Post) 29Nov http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3018-2000Nov29.html Internet penetration in European households has surged this year, prompted by a drop in connection costs, according to a report for the EC. Also see Internet use climbs 10 percent in EU homes (Nando Times) 30Nov http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/0,1643,500284818-500449111-502926325-0,00.html >From France, Yahoo Case Resonates Around Globe (International Herald Tribune) 22Nov http://www.iht.com/articles/2197.html The new-economy adage that "the Internet changes everything" seems to have special resonance in the French court judgment against Yahoo. Also see Yahoo!?s French connection (Economist) 20Nov http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=431328 Yahoo! Nazi ruling sets nasty precedent (Silicon) 21Nov http://www.silicon.com/a41032 FTC Says It Won't Sue Hollywood (Washington Post) 22Nov http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49551-2000Nov21.html Two months after issuing a report accusing the entertainment industry of aggressively marketing violent, adult-rated entertainment to children, federal regulators decided yesterday that they will not pursue legal charges against any of the companies involved. Exclusive: Yahoo! will act against paedophiles (ZDNet) 21Nov http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2656730,00.html UK managing director says she will personally oversee the appointment of a Yahoo! inspector to eradicate paedophiles from chatrooms. Taiwan website threatens to sue Yahoo! China BEIJING, Nov 21 (Reuters) - A Taiwan website is threatening to sue Yahoo! China, alleging that the portal used the Taiwan firm's copyrighted material on its Chinese website, lawyers representing the Taipei firm said on Tuesday. http://www0.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/050313.htm France Calls for Net 'Zoning' (Washington Post) 21Nov http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/europe/A46742-2000Nov20.html Yahoo Faces Deadline to Block Nazi Items (International Herald Tribune) 21Nov http://www.iht.com/articles/2078.html In a ruling certain to reverberate through the uncharted world of the Internet, a civil judge in Paris on Monday ordered Yahoo Inc., a leading U.S. Web company, to keep French citizens from seeing its American-based sites that auction Nazi-related items. Also see French Uphold Ruling Against Yahoo on Nazi Sites (New York Times) 21Nov http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/21/technology/21YAHO.html Yahoo told to block French users from Nazi auctions (CNET) 20Nov http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-3779324.html Yahoo Told to Block Nazi Goods From French (Standard) 20Nov http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,20320,00.html Court to Yahoo: Use Nazi Filter (Wired) 20Nov http://www.wirednews.com/news/politics/0,1283,40285,00.html French court in Nazi ruling against Yahoo! (Financial Times) 21Nov http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3JGPOTSFC Landmark ruling against Yahoo! in Nazi auction case (Guardian) 20Nov http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,400494,00.html Paris court bans Internet sale of Nazi artefacts (Times) 21Nov http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,39089,00.html eBay, Amazon avoid French knot (ZDNet) 20Nov http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2656250,00.html Yahoo! Inc.'s French adventure has gone so badly that most of its souvenirs are court documents. eBay Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. have made the same trek but have somehow managed to escape the same mistakes. The end of the borderless Net? (ZDNet) 20Nov http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2656254,00.html A French court has taken the first dangerous step toward imposing national boundaries on the frontier-free Internet, Yahoo! France managing director Philippe Guillanton. "International Cybercrime" Conference (European Parliament, Brussels) 5Dec http://www.eping.org/agenda.html SAFE SURFING 2001 - the Parents Advisory Group for the Internet ( PAGi) and the National Internet Advisory Committee (NIAC) in Singapore 22-24 February 2001 http://www.safesurfing2001.com/netscapepages/overview.htm The first ever International Convention on On-line Safety. The event, will gather world renowned authorities on on-line safety and organisations promoting child safety on the Internet to exchange ideas and best practices. Speakers from the United Kingdom, USA, Canada, Japan, and Singapore will participate in SAFE SURFING 2001. The Tension Between Free Speech and Copyright (GigaLaw) Nov http://www.gigalaw.com/articles/morris-2000-11-p1.html The "DeCSS" case - in which a hacker was sued for copyright infringement when he created a program that decrypted the copy-protection scheme for DVDs -- illustrates the conflicts between the First Amendment and intellectual property laws. This article discusses that case and the broader issue of whether computer code is "speech" that should be protected by the Constitution. Yahoo! Japan in child porn police raid (Register) 27Nov http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/15019.html Police have raided Yahoo!'s Tokyo office over the alleged sale of child porn videos through its Website. Yahoo! brought down to earth (Financial Times) 27Nov http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3FL9FB1GC A chorus of sky-is-falling rhetoric greeted the French court order requiring Yahoo! to block French users from accessing Nazi memorabilia on its US website. France's action, we are told, constitutes illegitimate extraterritorial regulation. Every internet content provider will now be subject to the conflicting laws of every nation. Electronic commerce will be stifled; the internet itself may be in jeopardy. Also see Internet pioneer Vinton Cerf pans French ruling against Yahoo! (Nando Times) 25Nov http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/0,1643,500283347-500446086-502896186-0,00.html Yahoo! for brave French courts (Guardian) 26Nov http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,402974,00.html Yahoo Probed for Sale of 'Mein Kampf' in Germany (Excite) 27Nov http://news.excite.com/news/r/001127/13/net-germany-yahoo-dc German prosecutors said on Monday they were investigating U.S. Internet retailer Yahoo Inc for the suspected online auction of copies of Hitler's infamous "Mein Kampf" which is banned in the country. Police probe Yahoo! Japan in child porn case (ZDNet) 27Nov http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/newsbursts/0,7407,2657994,00.html Yahoo! Japan Corp., Japan's most popular Web site, said Monday that police raided its Tokyo office to investigate the possible sale of illegal pornographic material on its auction site. Ruling on Nazi Memorabilia Sparks Legal Debate (New York Times) 24Nov http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/24/technology/24CYBERLAW.html A ruling by a Paris judge ordering Yahoo Inc. to block French citizens from auctions of Nazi artifacts on the company's English-language Web site has sparked a passionate debate among legal experts. Internet racism on the rise (internet.com) 24Nov http://www.uk.internet.com/Article/100925 A EU report has attacked the internet, slamming it as a breeding ground for racism, as both Europe and the US see a rise in racist activity. More than 2100 websites, many based in the US, display racist material, according to a report from the EU's racism and xenophobia monitoring unit. ABA sponsors major international researchers forum (ABA news release) 24Nov http://www.aba.gov.au/about/public_relations/newrel_2000/82nr2000.htm The Australian Broadcasting Authority is a major sponsor of the International Forum of Researchers on Young People and the Media which will examine young people's use of the Internet, media in the home environment, video games, screen violence, television content regulation and policy, and policy and regulation in the global environment. http://www.sydneyforum.com/ Hate Groups Proliferate On The Internet (TechWeb) 21Nov http://techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20001121S0013 Hate groups are increasingly using the World Wide Web to promote racist and extremist views, according to the Simon Wiesenthal Center. The number of websites promoting hate has more than doubled in the last year, from about 1,400 to more than 3,000, according to the center's associate dean, Rabbi Abraham Cooper. Fair value for China's Web sites (South China Morning Post) 1Dec http://technology.scmp.com/internet/daily/20001130160641567.asp To promote Internet use in Shanghai, the city government is planning a trade fair for Internet companies and commercial Web sites at which the organisers will give Chinese participants ratings based on how much money they're worth. Police in China arrest 'dot-con man' http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/0,1643,500283899-500447230-502907121-0,00.html BEIJING (November 27, 2000 6:07 a.m. EST) - Beijing police arrested a "dot-con man" who made his money on the Internet by chatting up young girls online and then robbing them once he met them in person, local media said Sunday. ===== David Goldstein Schallmooser Haupstr. 40/3 A-5020 Salzburg Austria email: Goldstein_David@yahoo.com.au phone: +43 699 1097 6197 (mobile) _____________________________________________________________________________ http://clubs.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Clubs - Join a club or build your own! * APPLe: To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe" to apple-request@apnic.net * From owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Tue Dec 5 04:06:33 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ns.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id EAA110212; Tue, 5 Dec 2000 04:06:33 +1000 (EST) Received: from web1301.mail.yahoo.com (web1301.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.23.151]) by ns.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id EAA110193 for ; Tue, 5 Dec 2000 04:06:30 +1000 (EST) Received: (qmail 21258 invoked by uid 60001); 4 Dec 2000 18:06:28 -0000 Message-ID: <20001204180628.21256.qmail@web1301.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [193.83.183.204] by web1301.mail.yahoo.com; Tue, 05 Dec 2000 05:06:28 EST Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 05:06:28 +1100 (EST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?David=20Goldstein?= Subject: Germany's Kampf Furor Renews To: APPLe MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Precedence: bulk Hi all A story that gives an outline on what the German feeling is to Mein Kampf and Nazism on the web and deals with some censorship issues. Cheers David Germany's Kampf Furor Renews by Steve Kettmann http://www.wirednews.com/news/politics/0,1283,40430,00.html 2:00 a.m. Dec. 1, 2000 PST BERLIN -- News this week that a Munich state prosecutor was investigating allegations that Yahoo Deutschland had sold copies of Mein Kampf could help build momentum in Germany for more sweeping restrictions on such material. "I'm disappointed and shocked," Michel Friedman, a leading spokesman for Germany's Jewish community, said. "We believe that the distribution of anti-Semitic, racist and xenophobic literature through Internet services has to be forbidden," he said. "The case of Yahoo in France showed us that in the next weeks and months there will be a new view in Europe on that. There must be a new legal structure in which distribution of hate literature is not allowed. I believe that this is a global, humanitarian message that hate literature is not distributed." An international debate on cross-border Internet purchases was kicked off last week when a French judge issued a ruling saying that Yahoo must find a way to stop people in France from purchasing Nazi materials via online auctions at the site. Yahoo was given three months to come up with a technical solution to the problem, but in the meantime, the company was expected to appeal. Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers head Vint Cerf, one of the experts called to testify to French judge Jean-Jacques Gomez, told the BBC that the ruling failed to heed the "limitations and risks" of such restrictions. "Ignored was the observation that if every jurisdiction in the world insisted on some form of filtering for its particular geographic territory, the World Wide Web would stop functioning," he said. The German case differs in that it concerns a German company doing business via the Internet in Germany, as opposed to an American company doing business internationally via the Internet. For Yahoo Deutschland to sell a copy of the book in Germany would be counter to German law. The German government places severe restrictions on sales of the book and other material that falls under the rubric of "hate literature." But contrary to some press accounts, Mein Kampf is not illegal per se in Germany -- what's illegal is the sort of unrestricted sales that can take place via the Internet. Late last year, controversy erupted in Germany over Amazon.com shipping copies of Mein Kampf to people in Germany. Prodded by the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center, Minister of Justice Hereto Däubler-Gmelin sent letters to Amazon.com and Barnesandnoble.com asking the booksellers to put a halt to sales of the book to people in Germany. Amazon.com agreed to ban such sales -- even though some people might have legitimate scholarly (or journalistic) reasons to want the book. As a German Justice Ministry spokesman explained at the time: "If you go to a bookshop, the bookseller can have a look at you and decide if you are really interested, like if you are a student. It's not the book that's forbidden, it's selling it to everyone. If you sell it through the Internet, you don't know who wants to buy the book; you give it to everybody, and that's forbidden." Gudrun Girnghuber, another Justice Ministry spokesman, clarified the policy. "The point is, you can buy Mein Kampf as a person being interested in historical events," she said. "There are versions of Mein Kampf that are edited, containing remarks explaining the things. But you can't buy the version having been sold during World War II. It's a criminal offense to sell in a non-edited version. In Germany, the only versions are edited versions. They are not the original copies. "It's a criminal offense to sell it to persons who are interested in Nazi things and symbols. It's a problem of the different standards. I know that Mein Kampf is sold in the U.S., but it can't be sold here. The Internet makes it possible for everyone to get it. So you have to talk about standards and find a way of dealing with it." The fresh controversy over Mein Kampf comes at an awkward time. A full-scale national debate has raged for months over government plans to ban the far-right National Democratic Party, which draws its inspiration from Hitler's National Socialist party. Just last weekend, police stopped a march of more than 1,000 skinheads from the NPD at Berlin's Alexanderplatz when a counter-protest made the situation too chaotic for them to control. Under a steady drizzle, police repeatedly announced, "This demonstration is over" and loaded the NPD party members on special trains to transport them to Berlin's periphery. The NPD marchers carried German flags and signs with slogans including "Germans, defend yourself," a phrase used in Nazi propaganda. Friedman said that even small numbers of sales of hate literature have to be seen as part of the problem of a growing far-right presence in Germany. "The problem is not that you study if you buy Mein Kampf , it is that it can be used for propaganda," he said. "It is the bible of the anti-Semitic hate literature. That's why it's forbidden to distribute the book in Germany." ===== David Goldstein Schallmooser Haupstr. 40/3 A-5020 Salzburg Austria email: Goldstein_David@yahoo.com.au phone: +43 699 1097 6197 (mobile) _____________________________________________________________________________ http://clubs.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Clubs - Join a club or build your own! * APPLe: To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe" to apple-request@apnic.net * From owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Tue Dec 5 19:30:59 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ns.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA88888; Tue, 5 Dec 2000 19:30:59 +1000 (EST) Received: from web1301.mail.yahoo.com (web1301.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.23.151]) by ns.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA88883 for ; Tue, 5 Dec 2000 19:30:57 +1000 (EST) Received: (qmail 9329 invoked by uid 60001); 5 Dec 2000 09:30:54 -0000 Message-ID: <20001205093054.9328.qmail@web1301.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [193.83.183.204] by web1301.mail.yahoo.com; Tue, 05 Dec 2000 20:30:54 EST Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 20:30:54 +1100 (EST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?David=20Goldstein?= Subject: ILPF Publishes International Implementation Analysis To: APPLe MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Precedence: bulk Hi all I thought this might be of interest to some. Cheers David ********* The Internet Law and Policy Forum (ILPF) is pleased to announce the publication of its international survey, An Analysis of International Electronic and Digital Signature Implementation Initiatives, prepared for ILPF by Chris Kuner from the Brussels office of Morrison & Foerster LLP and Stewart Baker from the Washington, D.C. office of Steptoe & Johnson LLP. You may view the survey in its entirety on the ILPF website, http://www.ilpf.org/digsig/analysis_IEDSII.htm The ILPF?s summary Report of an expert discussion held in San Francisco on 10 September 2000 is also available http://www.ilpf.org/digsig/report_IEDSII.htm. ===== David Goldstein Schallmooser Haupstr. 40/3 A-5020 Salzburg Austria email: Goldstein_David@yahoo.com.au phone: +43 699 1097 6197 (mobile) _____________________________________________________________________________ http://clubs.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! 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See http://www.opera.com/download/ to download Opera. Cheers David _____________________________________________________________________________ http://clubs.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Clubs - Join a club or build your own! * APPLe: To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe" to apple-request@apnic.net * From owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Wed Dec 6 23:11:15 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ns.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA88108; Wed, 6 Dec 2000 23:11:14 +1000 (EST) Received: from web1301.mail.yahoo.com (web1301.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.23.151]) by ns.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA88101 for ; Wed, 6 Dec 2000 23:11:11 +1000 (EST) Received: (qmail 22875 invoked by uid 60001); 6 Dec 2000 13:11:09 -0000 Message-ID: <20001206131109.22874.qmail@web1301.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [193.83.183.204] by web1301.mail.yahoo.com; Thu, 07 Dec 2000 00:11:09 EST Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 00:11:09 +1100 (EST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?David=20Goldstein?= Subject: Internet news roundup... To: APPLe MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Precedence: bulk Hi all A collection of news stories over the past couple of days that are reasonably relevant. See http://www.nic.at/english/main.html for more Internet news. Cheers David See http://www.opera.com/download/ to download Opera. Asian Nations Clash Anew With U.S. Over Internet (International Herald Tribune) 6Dec http://www.iht.com/articles/3482.html The clash between Asian countries and the United States over development of the Internet flared into the open again Tuesday as a top Chinese official made a wide-ranging attack on America's dominance of cyberspace. Malaysian Net boat surfs into Borneo villages (South China Morning Post) 6Dec http://technology.scmp.com/internet/daily/20001206152152617.asp Malaysia will pioneer waterborne Net surfing next year when it launches an Internet boat to educate isolated villagers on Borneo Island about information technology (IT). Internet Association created in Ukraine (Europemedia) 5Dec http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=915 On the 21st of November in Kiev the newly born Internet Association of the Ukraine was born. The main activities of the association will be equality, democracy, independence and partnership on the internet. EU to Set Up Pan-European Cybercrime Forum (Standard) 5Dec http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,20619,00.html The commission says international cooperation is needed to combat Net crimes that traditional law enforcement simply can't. Juggling the needs of the law, privacy and the industry will be the trick. Cybersex News Report Sparks Outcry in Hong Kong (Excite) 5Dec http://news.excite.com/news/r/001205/06/net-media-hongkong-dc A Hong Kong online newspaper has kicked up a fuss with its "investigative" report on the local sex trade which includes a video clip of a naked journalist and a prostitute engaging in sex. The report posted on HKCyber sparked calls from some Hong Kong lawmakers Tuesday for more control over Internet content and access for minors. China to further tighten controls on online bulletin boards (San Jose Mercury News) 4Dec http://www0.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/084179.htm In its latest effort to place restrictions on Internet usage, China intends to tighten regulation of online bulletin boards, Beijing's top telecommunications official said. Dutch ISPs groan at the cost of wiretapping (Silicon) 5Dec http://www.silicon.com/a41357 Dutch ISPs have warned they cannot afford equipment for monitoring their networks as required by a law soon to be enforced in the country. Internet-Cafes in China bestraft (Net Business) 6Dec http://www.net-business.de/politik/news.html?id=976100209.1 Das Herumstöbern von Gäste auf Porno-Seiten kommt der größten Kette von Internet-Cafes in Peking teuer zu stehen. Thirteenth Annual Administrative Law Issue - A Non-Delegation Doctrine for the Digital Age (Duke Law Journal) Dec http://www.law.duke.edu/shell/cite.pl?50+Duke+L.+J.+5 This is the Duke Law Journal's thirtieth annual administrative law issue. Its title, "Governance of the Internet," promises some link between the Internet and the world of administrative law. US backs European cybercrime proposal (South China Morning Post) 5Dec http://technology.scmp.com/enterprise/daily/20001205090313109.asp The United States has endorsed the gist of a controversial European drive to tighten cybercrime laws over the protests of privacy, civil liberties and human rights advocates. UK resists e-snooping calls (Financial Times) 5Dec http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3V1SXKCGC The UK government is resisting calls by law enforcement, security, and intelligence agencies for new laws giving them greatly expanded powers to check records of phone calls, e-mails and internet connections. Also see Snooping proposals branded 'impossible' (Silicon) 5Dec http://www.silicon.com/a41331 Internet is a challenge for courts, says judge (Australian IT) 5Dec http://www.australianit.com.au/common/storyPage/0,3811,1484244%5E1286,00.html Australian High Court judge Michael Kirby has warned that many judges do not know enough about new technology to make effective rulings on internet cases. Cybersmearer Defendants Can Keep Anonymity by Appearing in Court (Law.com) 5Dec http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZQ5KPSCGC In a case of first impression, a Morris County, N.J., judge gave half a victory to free-speech advocates opposing discovery of the identities of four anonymous posters to a Yahoo! bulletin board, who are sought as potential defendants by a company that claims to have been injured by their postings. In short, the John Does who appeared in the case will keep their anonymity; those who didn't, won't. Missing children get a site (Australian IT) 5Dec http://www.australianit.com.au/common/storyPage/0,3811,1484215%5E1285,00.html AN international database and website listing the details of missing children from across the globe now has an Australian component. New centre declares war on computer viruses (South China Morning Post) 5Dec http://technology.scmp.com/enterprise/DAILY/20001204174402261.asp In a bid to combat the increasing number of virus attacks in Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Productivity Council (HKPC) has teamed up with security developer Network Associates (NAI) to launch Hong Kong's first official antivirus centre. Porn a Thorn for Indian Portal (Wired) 4Dec http://www.wirednews.com/news/business/0,1367,40432,00.html In a court order that could have serious legal ramifications in India, a judge in Pune has put six directors of a premier portal called Rediff.com on trial for "giving access to pornographic material." Also see Porn troubles Rediff, Satyam and Indiaworld (ZDNet) 2Dec http://www.zdnetindia.com/news/breaknews/stories/8591.html Chinese personal website owner fined for piracy (China Daily) 29Nov http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cover/storydb/2000/11/29/it-cnipiracy.html A graduate student has been fined for publishing material on his personal website without consent from the copyright holder, according to a decree given by the Beijing Second People's Intermediate Court. China Stretches Its Wires (Standard) 5Dec http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,20600,00.html The Chinese government redraws the line on the Web and fights to keep control of domain names. Chinese domain name row deepens (South China Morning Post) 5Dec http://technology.scmp.com/internet/daily/20001205070101135.asp A dispute between the United States and China over the control of Chinese-scripted Internet addresses deepened on Monday as the mainland reiterated its claim over all Chinese-language internet domain names. Also see China Claims Its Own Domain (Wired) 4Dec http://www.wirednews.com/news/politics/0,1283,40506,00.html China, U.S. battle over domain names (ZDNet) 4Dec http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2660400,00.html ICANN is Not a World Government (Telepolis) 5Dec http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/te/4408/1.html Interview with Vint Cerf, ICANN's newly elected Chairman of the board, who wants that the non-profit company to focus on its challenging technical tasks. Domain name gambles may pay off (Daily Yomiuri) 5Dec http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/1205cu13.htm Starting Nov. 10, kanji characters have become an option for registering Internet domain names--the "address" of host computers on the Net--making it possible for Net surfers to simply type in familiar kanji in the top rectangle on the browser window and hit return to access desired Web sites. ===== David Goldstein Schallmooser Haupstr. 40/3 A-5020 Salzburg Austria email: Goldstein_David@yahoo.com.au phone: +43 699 1097 6197 (mobile) _____________________________________________________________________________ http://clubs.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Clubs - Join a club or build your own! * APPLe: To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe" to apple-request@apnic.net * From owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Fri Dec 8 00:18:38 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ns.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA68078; Fri, 8 Dec 2000 00:18:37 +1000 (EST) Received: from web1301.mail.yahoo.com (web1301.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.23.151]) by ns.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id AAA68073 for ; Fri, 8 Dec 2000 00:18:34 +1000 (EST) Received: (qmail 28191 invoked by uid 60001); 7 Dec 2000 14:18:32 -0000 Message-ID: <20001207141832.28190.qmail@web1301.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [193.83.183.204] by web1301.mail.yahoo.com; Fri, 08 Dec 2000 01:18:32 EST Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 01:18:32 +1100 (EST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?David=20Goldstein?= Subject: assorted Internet news To: APPLe MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Precedence: bulk Hi all Some news I compiled today and yesterday for the information of all and sundry that covers my usual topics. Cheers David EuroISPA Conference 2001 http://www.euroispa.org/conference EuroISPA, the European Internet Services Providers Association, is holding a major conference on 10 and 11 April 2001 at the Diamant Conference Centre, Brussels on: ?Future Trends in Internet Security?. The EuroISPA Conference will bring together a host of top European ISPs, software and hardware vendors, industry associations, law firms, regulators & Government officials for two days of high level discussion, debate & analysis. The threats to Internet security are diverse: our conference will focus on areas such as network and database security, protecting privacy and securing consumer confidence in e-commerce. At this price: SurfControl (Guardian) 7Dec http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,407873,00.html SurfControl, whose software enables surveillance of workplace web surfing, has achieved in three months what the market had expected in four. Also see Surfcontrol rises 6% (Financial Times) 6Dec http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT37LHRTEGC China 'liberates' smh.com.au (Sydney Morning Herald) 7Dec http://www.smh.com.au/news/0012/07/update/news888.html China has lifted restrictions on access to the Web sites of The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald. Need for update of laws against cyberstalking (Sydney Morning Herald) 7Dec http://www.smh.com.au/breaking/0012/07/A61374-2000Dec7.html A researcher says laws need to be updated across Australia to make it easier to prosecute people who stalk and terrorise their victims through the Internet. A race to feed the web's voracious appetite (Financial Times) 6Dec http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3US3JCFGC There are about 6bn people in the world. They own an estimated 350m computers, 480m mobile telephones, 600m cars and as many as 1bn television sets. Sooner rather than later, all these devices and more will want to be on the internet. German Officials Warn of Net 'Big Brother' (Standard) 6Dec http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,20635,00.html German officials in charge of protecting personal data freedom are warning of a threat to Internet users' privacy rights if the country approves a proposal to require Internet service providers to track and store data on Net surfing. Germany's Conference of Interior Ministers proposed the legislation last month. EU to Set Up Pan-European Cybercrime Forum (Standard) 6Dec http://europe.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,12975,00.html The commission says international cooperation is needed to combat Net crimes that traditional law enforcement simply can't. Juggling the needs of the law, privacy and the industry will be the trick. French Yahoo Ruling Applies to All Nazi Speech (Washtech) 6Dec http://www.washtech.com/news/regulation/5785-1.html Internet portal giant Yahoo will be wholly responsible for preventing French Internet users from viewing any Yahoo-run site selling Nazi merchandise or making "an apology" for Nazism, under the text of last month's French court decision, posted online today by the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT). See http://www.cdt.org/speech/001120yahoofrance.pdf for a English translation of the French decision. Cybercrimes Face Lax Prosecution (Washington Post) 6Dec http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34966-2000Dec6.html Criminal laws in most countries have not been extended into cyberspace yet, potentially making prosecution difficult on computer-related crimes such as hacking and distributing viruses on the Internet, says a 52-country survey. See Also see Study: Most nations' laws lag on cybercrime (CNN) 6Dec http://europe.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/12/06/crime.tech.reut/index.html Most nations behind curve on cybercrime laws (Nando Times) 6Dec http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/0,1643,500287423-500454256-502979884-0,00.html Global Cyber Crime: Weak Laws Threaten E-Commerce (McConnell International news release) 7Dec http://www.mcconnellinternational.com/pressroom/cybernews.htm Gaps in national criminal laws make successful prosecution of international cyber crimes uncertain in many countries, according to a report issued today by McConnell International LLC, a global policy and technology management consulting firm. The report, Cyber Crime . . . and Punishment? Archaic Laws Threaten Global Information, finds that only nine of 52 countries analyzed have extended their criminal laws into cyberspace to cover most types of cyber crimes. Fighting online crime with a parent's drive (Christian Science Monitor) 6Dec http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2000/12/06/fp1s4-csm.shtml Like most parents, she worries about what her children might stumble across when they go online to research a school paper or simply send an e-mail to a friend. But unlike the typical suburban mom who wants to make the Net safe for her kids, Ms. Granholm comes equipped to fight Internet bad guys with a few weapons. Internet arms dealers face curbs (Guardian) 6Dec http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,407424,00.html The government will try to head off the fury of the human rights lobby today by vowing that a draft exports control bill will go further than expected by regulating arms trading on the internet. Asian Nations Clash Anew With U.S. Over Internet (International Herald Tribune) 6Dec http://www.iht.com/articles/3482.html The clash between Asian countries and the United States over development of the Internet flared into the open again Tuesday as a top Chinese official made a wide-ranging attack on America's dominance of cyberspace. Exclusive: 3G could aid paedophiles, experts warn (ZDNet) 6Dec http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/2000/48/ns-19487.html 3G may be two years away, but experts warn that we need to debate the potential dangers now. Sex all over the place (IT Director) 6Dec http://www.it-director.com/00-12-06-3.html In the last week there seems to have been an explosion is sex related coverage. From the Sex.com court case, to charitable donations to court rulings its just been sex, sex, sex. Malaysian Net boat surfs into Borneo villages (South China Morning Post) 6Dec http://technology.scmp.com/internet/daily/20001206152152617.asp Malaysia will pioneer waterborne Net surfing next year when it launches an Internet boat to educate isolated villagers on Borneo Island about information technology (IT). Consortium Offers Unfiltered Advice on Filtering Software (New York Times) 6Dec http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/06/technology/06EDUCATION.html As Congress continues to grapple with the issue of requiring schools and libraries to install Internet filtering software, a group of school technology administrators is offering unfiltered advice on what educators can do to safeguard students online. ===== David Goldstein Schallmooser Haupstr. 40/3 A-5020 Salzburg Austria email: Goldstein_David@yahoo.com.au phone: +43 699 1097 6197 (mobile) _____________________________________________________________________________ http://clubs.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Clubs - Join a club or build your own! * APPLe: To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe" to apple-request@apnic.net * From owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Fri Dec 8 01:04:20 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ns.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id BAA73678; Fri, 8 Dec 2000 01:04:19 +1000 (EST) Received: from web1301.mail.yahoo.com (web1301.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.23.151]) by ns.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id BAA73673 for ; Fri, 8 Dec 2000 01:04:13 +1000 (EST) Received: (qmail 4643 invoked by uid 60001); 7 Dec 2000 15:04:10 -0000 Message-ID: <20001207150410.4642.qmail@web1301.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [193.83.183.204] by web1301.mail.yahoo.com; Fri, 08 Dec 2000 02:04:10 EST Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 02:04:10 +1100 (EST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?David=20Goldstein?= Subject: assorted Internet news To: APPLe MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Precedence: bulk Hi all Some news I compiled today and yesterday for the information of all and sundry that covers my usual topics. Cheers David EuroISPA Conference 2001 http://www.euroispa.org/conference EuroISPA, the European Internet Services Providers Association, is holding a major conference on 10 and 11 April 2001 at the Diamant Conference Centre, Brussels on: ?Future Trends in Internet Security?. The EuroISPA Conference will bring together a host of top European ISPs, software and hardware vendors, industry associations, law firms, regulators & Government officials for two days of high level discussion, debate & analysis. The threats to Internet security are diverse: our conference will focus on areas such as network and database security, protecting privacy and securing consumer confidence in e-commerce. At this price: SurfControl (Guardian) 7Dec http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,407873,00.html SurfControl, whose software enables surveillance of workplace web surfing, has achieved in three months what the market had expected in four. Also see Surfcontrol rises 6% (Financial Times) 6Dec http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT37LHRTEGC China 'liberates' smh.com.au (Sydney Morning Herald) 7Dec http://www.smh.com.au/news/0012/07/update/news888.html China has lifted restrictions on access to the Web sites of The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald. Need for update of laws against cyberstalking (Sydney Morning Herald) 7Dec http://www.smh.com.au/breaking/0012/07/A61374-2000Dec7.html A researcher says laws need to be updated across Australia to make it easier to prosecute people who stalk and terrorise their victims through the Internet. A race to feed the web's voracious appetite (Financial Times) 6Dec http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3US3JCFGC There are about 6bn people in the world. They own an estimated 350m computers, 480m mobile telephones, 600m cars and as many as 1bn television sets. Sooner rather than later, all these devices and more will want to be on the internet. German Officials Warn of Net 'Big Brother' (Standard) 6Dec http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,20635,00.html German officials in charge of protecting personal data freedom are warning of a threat to Internet users' privacy rights if the country approves a proposal to require Internet service providers to track and store data on Net surfing. Germany's Conference of Interior Ministers proposed the legislation last month. EU to Set Up Pan-European Cybercrime Forum (Standard) 6Dec http://europe.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,12975,00.html The commission says international cooperation is needed to combat Net crimes that traditional law enforcement simply can't. Juggling the needs of the law, privacy and the industry will be the trick. French Yahoo Ruling Applies to All Nazi Speech (Washtech) 6Dec http://www.washtech.com/news/regulation/5785-1.html Internet portal giant Yahoo will be wholly responsible for preventing French Internet users from viewing any Yahoo-run site selling Nazi merchandise or making "an apology" for Nazism, under the text of last month's French court decision, posted online today by the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT). See http://www.cdt.org/speech/001120yahoofrance.pdf for a English translation of the French decision. Cybercrimes Face Lax Prosecution (Washington Post) 6Dec http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34966-2000Dec6.html Criminal laws in most countries have not been extended into cyberspace yet, potentially making prosecution difficult on computer-related crimes such as hacking and distributing viruses on the Internet, says a 52-country survey. See Also see Study: Most nations' laws lag on cybercrime (CNN) 6Dec http://europe.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/12/06/crime.tech.reut/index.html Most nations behind curve on cybercrime laws (Nando Times) 6Dec http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/0,1643,500287423-500454256-502979884-0,00.html Global Cyber Crime: Weak Laws Threaten E-Commerce (McConnell International news release) 7Dec http://www.mcconnellinternational.com/pressroom/cybernews.htm Gaps in national criminal laws make successful prosecution of international cyber crimes uncertain in many countries, according to a report issued today by McConnell International LLC, a global policy and technology management consulting firm. The report, Cyber Crime . . . and Punishment? Archaic Laws Threaten Global Information, finds that only nine of 52 countries analyzed have extended their criminal laws into cyberspace to cover most types of cyber crimes. Fighting online crime with a parent's drive (Christian Science Monitor) 6Dec http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2000/12/06/fp1s4-csm.shtml Like most parents, she worries about what her children might stumble across when they go online to research a school paper or simply send an e-mail to a friend. But unlike the typical suburban mom who wants to make the Net safe for her kids, Ms. Granholm comes equipped to fight Internet bad guys with a few weapons. Internet arms dealers face curbs (Guardian) 6Dec http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,407424,00.html The government will try to head off the fury of the human rights lobby today by vowing that a draft exports control bill will go further than expected by regulating arms trading on the internet. Asian Nations Clash Anew With U.S. Over Internet (International Herald Tribune) 6Dec http://www.iht.com/articles/3482.html The clash between Asian countries and the United States over development of the Internet flared into the open again Tuesday as a top Chinese official made a wide-ranging attack on America's dominance of cyberspace. Exclusive: 3G could aid paedophiles, experts warn (ZDNet) 6Dec http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/2000/48/ns-19487.html 3G may be two years away, but experts warn that we need to debate the potential dangers now. Sex all over the place (IT Director) 6Dec http://www.it-director.com/00-12-06-3.html In the last week there seems to have been an explosion is sex related coverage. From the Sex.com court case, to charitable donations to court rulings its just been sex, sex, sex. Malaysian Net boat surfs into Borneo villages (South China Morning Post) 6Dec http://technology.scmp.com/internet/daily/20001206152152617.asp Malaysia will pioneer waterborne Net surfing next year when it launches an Internet boat to educate isolated villagers on Borneo Island about information technology (IT). Consortium Offers Unfiltered Advice on Filtering Software (New York Times) 6Dec http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/06/technology/06EDUCATION.html As Congress continues to grapple with the issue of requiring schools and libraries to install Internet filtering software, a group of school technology administrators is offering unfiltered advice on what educators can do to safeguard students online. ===== David Goldstein Schallmooser Haupstr. 40/3 A-5020 Salzburg Austria email: Goldstein_David@yahoo.com.au phone: +43 699 1097 6197 (mobile) _____________________________________________________________________________ http://clubs.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Clubs - Join a club or build your own! * APPLe: To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe" to apple-request@apnic.net * From owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Tue Dec 12 02:09:59 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ns.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id CAA90539; Tue, 12 Dec 2000 02:09:58 +1000 (EST) Received: from web1301.mail.yahoo.com (web1301.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.23.151]) by ns.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id CAA90535 for ; Tue, 12 Dec 2000 02:09:55 +1000 (EST) Received: (qmail 14800 invoked by uid 60001); 11 Dec 2000 16:09:52 -0000 Message-ID: <20001211160952.14799.qmail@web1301.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [193.83.183.204] by web1301.mail.yahoo.com; Tue, 12 Dec 2000 03:09:52 EST Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 03:09:52 +1100 (EST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?David=20Goldstein?= Subject: some of the usual stories... To: APPLe MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Precedence: bulk Hi all A few stories to browse through... Cheers David Filtering Software and Services - Benchmarking study (QuickLinks) 15Feb http://www.qlinks.net/iap/benchmark_announce.html A workshop on Benchmarking of Filtering Software and Services is being organised in Brussels on the 15 February 2001. What is the Benchmarking of Filtering Software and Services study? At the request of the EC's Information Society Directorate-General, the Joint Research Centre, Ispra, has commenced a study to foster a better understanding of the process of benchmarking filtering software and services used to protect children from harmful or undesirable content on the Internet. In particular the study will seek to define the evaluation criteria that might be employed in specific benchmarking exercises. See also Filtering software and services - 2001 calls for proposals http://www.qlinks.net/iap/2001calls.html Will the Chinese authorities weave a Web of oppression? (Independent) 11Dec http://www.independent.co.uk/news/Digital/Columnists/2000-12/ecommerce111200.shtml The received wisdom about the internet is that it is one of the great democratic channels of communication. It places increased power in the hands of individuals, challenges authority and gives a voice to the common man. Not so in China. Far from being an instrument of democratisation and the devolution of power, the internet is being treated in Beijing as a means of reasserting control over the masses. See also China's Web users kept on their toes (Christian Science Monitor) 7Dec http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2000/12/07/p7s1.htm Websites fight to click with women (Independent) 11Dec http://www.independent.co.uk/news/Digital/Columnists/2000-12/simmons111200.shtml Last week, Tesco and the US online women's network iVillage launched iVillage.co.uk. But is there room for one more in a market dominated by handbag.com, owned by Boots and Hollinger Telegraph New Media; BeMe.com, produced by the magazine group IPC; Freeserve's iCircle; and Emap Elan's New Woman website, newwomanonline.co.uk? With five million users across the pond, and five years' experience, it could pose a real threat. See also The Net's Female Trouble (Standard) 7Dec http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,20678,00.html Female Shoppers Outnumber Males - Study (Washtech) 8Dec http://www.washtech.com/news/media/5851-1.html Virtual privacy centre started in Germany (ZDNet) 11Dec http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/2000/49/ns-19607.html In comparison to Britain and the US, Germany has very strict rules about privacy. For example, emails are safe, even at work. Each federal state has to name a commissioner for data protection, who has to watch the activities of governments and companies. Nazis and the Net (Frankfurter Allgemeine) 10Dec http://www.faz.com/IN/INtemplates/eFAZ/docmain.asp?rub={B1311FFE-FBFB-11D2-B228-00105A9CAF88}&doc={4EFB87B3-CD17-11D4-B99E-009027BA226C} The Berlin journalist Burkhard Schröder has posted almost 100 links to the right-wing scene on his Web site "burks.de." It meticulously lists the Web sites of the right-wing extremist German National Democratic Party and guides visitors to the Arian Fighter Association, the National Alliance and the Ku Klux Klan as well as to Radio Wolfschanze and catalogs of right-wing music. Never have Nazi links been more neatly arranged, more extensive and user-friendly than at this buffet of barbarities. The Web site creator emphasizes that "burks.de" offers the "world's largest collection of links to right-wing Web pages." Record Labels Win Internet Ruling (New York Times) 9Dec http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/09/technology/09RADI.html Radio stations that make their broadcasts available on the Internet must pay fees to record companies, the United States Copyright Office has ruled, in a decision the radio stations assert conflicts with federal law. Also see Radio stations must pay to play, U.S. rules (CNET) 8Dec http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-4058019.html Radio Stations Hit Hard In Copyright Ruling (Variety) 11Dec http://ev.variety.com/index.asp?layout=ev_story&articleid=VR1117790257 Doctor wins suit over anonymous Internet libel (Nando Times) 9Dec http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/0,1643,500288492-500456502-503005234-0,00.html A former doctor at Emory University School of Medicine has won what his lawyers say is the first libel verdict based on an anonymous Internet message. ISPs want review of Yahoo Nazi verdict (internet.com) 8Dec http://www.uk.internet.com/Article/101009 European ISPs want the European Union to step in over a French court's decision that Yahoo must stop French web surfers from accessing its US auction pages. Terror comes in many forms, and generally the law can't act (Sydney Morning Herald) 8Dec http://www.smh.com.au/news/0012/08/national/national23.html Cyberstalkers are becoming a menace for police as well as the victims they harass using email and the Internet. Catching and prosecuting offenders has proved difficult due to the huge cost involved and the failure of many States to include cyberstalking in legislation covering stalking. Are Parents Legally Responsible for Their Children's Internet Use? (New York Times) 8Dec http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/08/technology/08CYBERLAW.html Most people would agree that it's a good idea for parents to supervise their children's use of computers and the Internet. But what happens if a mother or father fails to do so? According to a state judge in Illinois, that parent can face trial in court. Europe's cyber crime treaty criticized (InfoWorld) 8Dec http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/00/12/08/001208hncyber.xml The Chairman OF the committee drafting the Council of Europe's proposal for fighting cybercrime faced renewed questions and criticism of the draft treaty on Thursday from a representative of U.S. IT companies and a privacy advocate. Is Spam Ordinary Commercial Speech? (GigaLaw) Dec http://www.gigalaw.com/articles/morris-2000-12-p1.html As annoying as unsolicited e-mail - or spam - can be, it might be protected as "commercial speech" under the First Amendment. Still, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that commercial speech is subject to some regulations. This article discusses the role of spam as commercial speech. Web of Hate Hate Groups Using the Net to Target Kids (ABC) 7Dec http://www.abcnews.go.com/onair/WorldNewsTonight/wnt001207_nethate_feature.html It?s easy, and it?s free ? the Internet is now being utilized as a vehicle for hate groups to get their message out to kids. (Art Today) In the suburbs of West Palm Beach, Fla., Derek Black is a young promoter for hate. He runs Stormfront for Kids, a Web site that promotes white supremacy ? along with games and a birthday page. A clash over filters to block Internet smut (Christian Science Monitor) 7Dec http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2000/12/07/fp2s1-csm.shtml Congress mulls mandatory Internet filters in schools and libraries, but others say it's a parent's responsibility. UK telecoms some of the cheapest in Europe (Register) 7Dec http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/5/15286.html Oftel has just completed an international benchmarking study that compares the UK to France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, and the US states of Ohio and California. The study found that UK consumers benefit from some of the lowest prices in Europe. It also compares well with the US, often cited as one of the most competitive market places. Also see UK Consumers Continue to Benefit from Lower Prices for Key Telecoms Services (OFTEL news release) 6Dec http://www.oftel.gov.uk/releases/2000/pr97_00.htm International benchmarking study of mobile services and dial-up PSTN Internet access (OFTEL) Dec http://www.oftel.gov.uk/feedback/benc1200.htm Privacy a Likely Loser in Treaty (Wired) 7Dec http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,40576,00.html A controversial cybercrime treaty supported by the Clinton administration likely will not be amended to include privacy protections, a key European official said. 'Privacy ... will not go away' (ZDNet) 7Dec http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2662502,00.html Just a few hours after Bill Gates opened Microsoft Corp.'s SafeNet 2000 security summit here Thursday on an optimistic note, Forrester Research Inc.'s John McCarthy blew it all up. In a keynote titled "The Internet Privacy Migraine," McCarthy, group director of politics and government at Forrester (Nasdaq: FORR), directly contradicted Gates on several points and provided some cold facts that indicate online privacy is a problem that won't be fixed anytime soon. He also predicted heavy government intervention over the next four years to deal with online security and privacy. Female Shoppers Outnumber Males, Overall Growth Seen - Study (Newsbytes) 7Dec http://www.newsbytes.com/news/00/159129.html After several years of men dominating the online population, not only are more women logging on to the Internet, the number of female e-shoppers eclipsed Net-shopping men for the second consecutive quarter, a study has found. Blasting the COPA Commission (ZDNet) 5Dec http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2661539,00.html We have a pair of local TV sportscasters here in Boston who end each nightly report with what they call the "Last Blast." It's a short segment in which both guys take shots at officials who've made lousy calls, owners who've blown big deals, athletes who've screwed up professionally or personally. _____________________________________________________________________________ http://clubs.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Clubs - Join a club or build your own! * APPLe: To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe" to apple-request@apnic.net * From owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Tue Dec 12 02:12:51 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ns.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id CAA90892; Tue, 12 Dec 2000 02:12:51 +1000 (EST) Received: from web1301.mail.yahoo.com (web1301.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.23.151]) by ns.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id CAA90886 for ; Tue, 12 Dec 2000 02:12:48 +1000 (EST) Received: (qmail 15171 invoked by uid 60001); 11 Dec 2000 16:12:47 -0000 Message-ID: <20001211161247.15170.qmail@web1301.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [193.83.183.204] by web1301.mail.yahoo.com; Tue, 12 Dec 2000 03:12:46 EST Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 03:12:46 +1100 (EST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?David=20Goldstein?= Subject: some of the usual stories... To: APPLe MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Precedence: bulk Hi all A few stories to browse through... Cheers David Filtering Software and Services - Benchmarking study (QuickLinks) 15Feb http://www.qlinks.net/iap/benchmark_announce.html A workshop on Benchmarking of Filtering Software and Services is being organised in Brussels on the 15 February 2001. What is the Benchmarking of Filtering Software and Services study? At the request of the EC's Information Society Directorate-General, the Joint Research Centre, Ispra, has commenced a study to foster a better understanding of the process of benchmarking filtering software and services used to protect children from harmful or undesirable content on the Internet. In particular the study will seek to define the evaluation criteria that might be employed in specific benchmarking exercises. See also Filtering software and services - 2001 calls for proposals http://www.qlinks.net/iap/2001calls.html Will the Chinese authorities weave a Web of oppression? (Independent) 11Dec http://www.independent.co.uk/news/Digital/Columnists/2000-12/ecommerce111200.shtml The received wisdom about the internet is that it is one of the great democratic channels of communication. It places increased power in the hands of individuals, challenges authority and gives a voice to the common man. Not so in China. Far from being an instrument of democratisation and the devolution of power, the internet is being treated in Beijing as a means of reasserting control over the masses. See also China's Web users kept on their toes (Christian Science Monitor) 7Dec http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2000/12/07/p7s1.htm Websites fight to click with women (Independent) 11Dec http://www.independent.co.uk/news/Digital/Columnists/2000-12/simmons111200.shtml Last week, Tesco and the US online women's network iVillage launched iVillage.co.uk. But is there room for one more in a market dominated by handbag.com, owned by Boots and Hollinger Telegraph New Media; BeMe.com, produced by the magazine group IPC; Freeserve's iCircle; and Emap Elan's New Woman website, newwomanonline.co.uk? With five million users across the pond, and five years' experience, it could pose a real threat. See also The Net's Female Trouble (Standard) 7Dec http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,20678,00.html Female Shoppers Outnumber Males - Study (Washtech) 8Dec http://www.washtech.com/news/media/5851-1.html Virtual privacy centre started in Germany (ZDNet) 11Dec http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/2000/49/ns-19607.html In comparison to Britain and the US, Germany has very strict rules about privacy. For example, emails are safe, even at work. Each federal state has to name a commissioner for data protection, who has to watch the activities of governments and companies. Nazis and the Net (Frankfurter Allgemeine) 10Dec http://www.faz.com/IN/INtemplates/eFAZ/docmain.asp?rub={B1311FFE-FBFB-11D2-B228-00105A9CAF88}&doc={4EFB87B3-CD17-11D4-B99E-009027BA226C} The Berlin journalist Burkhard Schröder has posted almost 100 links to the right-wing scene on his Web site "burks.de." It meticulously lists the Web sites of the right-wing extremist German National Democratic Party and guides visitors to the Arian Fighter Association, the National Alliance and the Ku Klux Klan as well as to Radio Wolfschanze and catalogs of right-wing music. Never have Nazi links been more neatly arranged, more extensive and user-friendly than at this buffet of barbarities. The Web site creator emphasizes that "burks.de" offers the "world's largest collection of links to right-wing Web pages." Record Labels Win Internet Ruling (New York Times) 9Dec http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/09/technology/09RADI.html Radio stations that make their broadcasts available on the Internet must pay fees to record companies, the United States Copyright Office has ruled, in a decision the radio stations assert conflicts with federal law. Also see Radio stations must pay to play, U.S. rules (CNET) 8Dec http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-4058019.html Radio Stations Hit Hard In Copyright Ruling (Variety) 11Dec http://ev.variety.com/index.asp?layout=ev_story&articleid=VR1117790257 Doctor wins suit over anonymous Internet libel (Nando Times) 9Dec http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/0,1643,500288492-500456502-503005234-0,00.html A former doctor at Emory University School of Medicine has won what his lawyers say is the first libel verdict based on an anonymous Internet message. ISPs want review of Yahoo Nazi verdict (internet.com) 8Dec http://www.uk.internet.com/Article/101009 European ISPs want the European Union to step in over a French court's decision that Yahoo must stop French web surfers from accessing its US auction pages. Terror comes in many forms, and generally the law can't act (Sydney Morning Herald) 8Dec http://www.smh.com.au/news/0012/08/national/national23.html Cyberstalkers are becoming a menace for police as well as the victims they harass using email and the Internet. Catching and prosecuting offenders has proved difficult due to the huge cost involved and the failure of many States to include cyberstalking in legislation covering stalking. Are Parents Legally Responsible for Their Children's Internet Use? (New York Times) 8Dec http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/08/technology/08CYBERLAW.html Most people would agree that it's a good idea for parents to supervise their children's use of computers and the Internet. But what happens if a mother or father fails to do so? According to a state judge in Illinois, that parent can face trial in court. Europe's cyber crime treaty criticized (InfoWorld) 8Dec http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/00/12/08/001208hncyber.xml The Chairman OF the committee drafting the Council of Europe's proposal for fighting cybercrime faced renewed questions and criticism of the draft treaty on Thursday from a representative of U.S. IT companies and a privacy advocate. Is Spam Ordinary Commercial Speech? (GigaLaw) Dec http://www.gigalaw.com/articles/morris-2000-12-p1.html As annoying as unsolicited e-mail - or spam - can be, it might be protected as "commercial speech" under the First Amendment. Still, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that commercial speech is subject to some regulations. This article discusses the role of spam as commercial speech. Web of Hate Hate Groups Using the Net to Target Kids (ABC) 7Dec http://www.abcnews.go.com/onair/WorldNewsTonight/wnt001207_nethate_feature.html It?s easy, and it?s free ? the Internet is now being utilized as a vehicle for hate groups to get their message out to kids. (Art Today) In the suburbs of West Palm Beach, Fla., Derek Black is a young promoter for hate. He runs Stormfront for Kids, a Web site that promotes white supremacy ? along with games and a birthday page. A clash over filters to block Internet smut (Christian Science Monitor) 7Dec http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2000/12/07/fp2s1-csm.shtml Congress mulls mandatory Internet filters in schools and libraries, but others say it's a parent's responsibility. UK telecoms some of the cheapest in Europe (Register) 7Dec http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/5/15286.html Oftel has just completed an international benchmarking study that compares the UK to France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, and the US states of Ohio and California. The study found that UK consumers benefit from some of the lowest prices in Europe. It also compares well with the US, often cited as one of the most competitive market places. Also see UK Consumers Continue to Benefit from Lower Prices for Key Telecoms Services (OFTEL news release) 6Dec http://www.oftel.gov.uk/releases/2000/pr97_00.htm International benchmarking study of mobile services and dial-up PSTN Internet access (OFTEL) Dec http://www.oftel.gov.uk/feedback/benc1200.htm Privacy a Likely Loser in Treaty (Wired) 7Dec http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,40576,00.html A controversial cybercrime treaty supported by the Clinton administration likely will not be amended to include privacy protections, a key European official said. 'Privacy ... will not go away' (ZDNet) 7Dec http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2662502,00.html Just a few hours after Bill Gates opened Microsoft Corp.'s SafeNet 2000 security summit here Thursday on an optimistic note, Forrester Research Inc.'s John McCarthy blew it all up. In a keynote titled "The Internet Privacy Migraine," McCarthy, group director of politics and government at Forrester (Nasdaq: FORR), directly contradicted Gates on several points and provided some cold facts that indicate online privacy is a problem that won't be fixed anytime soon. He also predicted heavy government intervention over the next four years to deal with online security and privacy. Female Shoppers Outnumber Males, Overall Growth Seen - Study (Newsbytes) 7Dec http://www.newsbytes.com/news/00/159129.html After several years of men dominating the online population, not only are more women logging on to the Internet, the number of female e-shoppers eclipsed Net-shopping men for the second consecutive quarter, a study has found. Blasting the COPA Commission (ZDNet) 5Dec http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2661539,00.html We have a pair of local TV sportscasters here in Boston who end each nightly report with what they call the "Last Blast." It's a short segment in which both guys take shots at officials who've made lousy calls, owners who've blown big deals, athletes who've screwed up professionally or personally. _____________________________________________________________________________ http://clubs.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Clubs - Join a club or build your own! * APPLe: To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe" to apple-request@apnic.net * From owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Wed Dec 13 04:07:11 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ns.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id EAA92779; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 04:07:11 +1000 (EST) Received: from web1301.mail.yahoo.com (web1301.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.23.151]) by ns.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id EAA92759 for ; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 04:07:06 +1000 (EST) Received: (qmail 25564 invoked by uid 60001); 12 Dec 2000 18:07:03 -0000 Message-ID: <20001212180703.25563.qmail@web1301.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [193.83.183.204] by web1301.mail.yahoo.com; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 05:07:03 EST Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 05:07:03 +1100 (EST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?David=20Goldstein?= Subject: more Internet stories To: APPLe MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Precedence: bulk A few more stories to broswe through. cheers David Websites of hate (Irish Times) 12Dec http://scripts.ireland.com/technology/newsshowall.cfm?ID=1211 Professionally crafted websites are being used to give a veneer of credence to philosophies of hate. Can anything be done about them? Consumers win powers at giant media watchdog (Guardian) 12Dec http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,410251,00.html A powerful consumers' panel is to be placed at the centre of a proposed giant media regulator covering the internet, telecoms, advertising, television, radio and the press. Hacker hits Japanese police site (Independent) 12Dec http://www.independent.co.uk/news/Digital/Update/2000-12/APnude121200.shtml Police are investigating how an image of a nude woman made its way on to the website of Japan's top security organization. E-Signatures at Your Online Broker? Better Be Careful (Business Week) 12Dec http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/dec2000/nf20001212_815.htm They're now legally binding, and the industry is rushing to adopt them. The convenience they add, though, doesn't make up for the risks. How to keep your Web-surfing habits private (Nando Times) 12Dec http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/0,1643,500288952-500457450-503014891-0,00.html Web sites can track your every move online, but there are tools listed by the Electronic Privacy Information Center that can help safeguard your Internet privacy and show you what information companies can find out. Cool Net-savvy fridge at price too hot to handle (Sydney Morning Herald) 12Dec http://www.smh.com.au/news/0012/12/update/news7.html It's the smart fridge at a price that isn't funny. But it'll check your food, phone the service centre and let you use the Net, a video phone, or watch a movie, while the billy boils. Privacy trouble with EU (Australian IT) 12Dec http://www.australianit.com.au/common/storyPage/0,3811,1508875%5E442,00.html Lawyers from the Attorney-General's Department will meet with European Union officials in Brussels next week to discuss the EU's concerns over Australia's recently-passed privacy legislation. Mixed views on moratorium (Australian IT) 12Dec http://www.australianit.com.au/common/storyPage/0,3811,1508882%5E442,00.html Internet censorship agencies are busy assessing the practical implications of the Federal Goverment's 12- month moratorium on online gaming. Also see Lights out: Australia's first cyber casino extinguished (ZDNet) 12Dec http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/dailynews/story/0,2000011358,20107543,00.htm Net freedom uncompromised by sex search (South China Morning Post) 11Dec http://technology.scmp.com/internet/Daily/20001211121012184.asp Malaysians use the Internet to search for sex more than anything else, but the government of the largely Muslim country said its permissive policy towards the Web is here to stay. Hate is up for bid on some Web sites (Free Press) 11Dec http://www.freep.com/news/metro/hate11_20001211.htm Among the toaster ovens and toy train sets on the eBay Internet auction site last week, shoppers also were offered a chilling artifact of the Holocaust: a striped uniform once worn by a prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp. IT skills gap becoming critical in Europe (Independent) 11Dec http://www.independent.co.uk/news/Digital/Update/2000-12/APshortage111200.shtml Unfilled jobs could cause a "critical bottleneck" in the expansion of the information?technology industry in Europe, the head of the U.N. labour agency said. Asia remains hottest market in technology (South China Morning Post) 11Dec http://technology.scmp.com/telecoms/DAILY/20001211065940432.asp Asia is still the hottest market in technology and telecommunications despite this year's Internet boom-to-bust, according to International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Telecom Asia 2000 conference chairman Reza Jafari. 75% of Europeans still wary about online shopping (Financial Times) 11Dec http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT36U9W6MGC The need for European e-business companies to address internet security concerns continues to be accute, with 75 per cent of European consumers still uncomfortable disclosing their credit card details online, according to research by PricewaterhouseCooper. _____________________________________________________________________________ http://clubs.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Clubs - Join a club or build your own! * APPLe: To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe" to apple-request@apnic.net * From owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Thu Dec 14 04:22:09 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ns.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id EAA81196; Thu, 14 Dec 2000 04:22:08 +1000 (EST) Received: from web1301.mail.yahoo.com (web1301.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.23.151]) by ns.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id EAA81190 for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2000 04:22:05 +1000 (EST) Received: (qmail 17190 invoked by uid 60001); 13 Dec 2000 18:22:03 -0000 Message-ID: <20001213182203.17189.qmail@web1301.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [193.83.183.204] by web1301.mail.yahoo.com; Thu, 14 Dec 2000 05:22:03 EST Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 05:22:03 +1100 (EST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?David=20Goldstein?= Subject: Internet news... To: APPLe MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Precedence: bulk Hello all Some news relevant to this list collected today. Cheers David Laws On Incitement of Racial Hatred Also Apply to Internet (Frankfurter Allgemeine) 12Dec http://www.faz.com/IN/INtemplates/eFAZ/docmain.asp?rub={B1311FCC-FBFB-11D2-B228-00105A9CAF88}&doc={30E2DC22-CEF0-11D4-B99E-009027BA226C} In a decision with potentially far-reaching legal and political consequences, the Federal Court of Justice ruled on Tuesday that German laws against neo-Nazi propaganda can be applied abroad even when such material is placed on the Internet by a non-German. Far Right Expands Via Internet (Frankfurter Allgemeine) 12Dec http://www.faz.com/IN/INtemplates/eFAZ/docmain.asp?rub={B1311FCC-FBFB-11D2-B228-00105A9CAF88}&doc={30E2DCF1-CEF0-11D4-B99E-009027BA226C} The Internet has enabled right-wing extremists to make a quantum leap in their efforts to promote their cause. For years, the far right had tried unsuccessfully to make more of an impact on society. German Court Targets Net Holocaust Denier (Washtech) 12Dec http://www.washtech.com/news/regulation/5940-1.html A German court ordered the retrial of a German-born Australian for denying on the Internet that the Holocaust happened. UN tackles transnational crime (Financial Times) 12Dec http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3I7C3WNGC The United Nations on Tuesday sought to lay down basic ground rules in the fight against international organised crime, warning that it was no longer possible for any one state to combat the phenomenon alone. EU Preparing Cybercrime Guidelines (Washington Post) 12Dec http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61074-2000Dec12.html The EC is preparing recommendations for member states on how to battle Internet crime in the hopes of countering consumer and industry reluctance to conduct business online. One aim of the EU's recommendations would be to establish links among the 15 EU members to monitor and react swiftly to crimes, such as credit card theft, committed online. Cybercrime treaty may conflict with UN declaration (ZDNet) 12Dec http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/2000/49/ns-19656.html A leading UK Internet rights group is to warn United Nations representatives that international plans to fight cybercrime pose a serious menace to the privacy and rights of all Internet users. EU Preparing Cybercrime Guidelines (Las Vegas Sun) 12Dec http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/tech/2000/dec/12/121200899.html The EC is preparing recommendations for member states on how to battle Internet crime in the hopes of countering consumer and industry reluctance to conduct business online. Super-regulator to shake up media (ZDNet) 12Dec http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/2000/49/ns-19663.html The future of all electronic media is to be shaken up with the arrival of a super-regulator, "Ofcom", which will have powers to investigate all broadcasting and telecommunications companies. Also see UK To Regulate Electronic Media (Washtech) 12Dec http://www.washtech.com/news/regulation/5934-1.html Training a watchdog for the Internet age (Standard) 12Dec http://www.thestandardeurope.com/article/display/0,1151,13052,00.html The government has released a White Paper which proposes a new regulator for the communications sector, to be known as Ofcom. The regulator will roll the ITC, Radio Authority, OFTEL, Radio Communications Authority and the Broadcasting Standards Commission into one body. Malaysia to prosecute Net surfers who insult Islam (San Jose Mercury Times) 12Dec http://www0.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/internet/docs/734867l.htm Malaysia said Tuesday it will prosecute Muslim Net surfers who insult Islam via the Internet. Banned Artists Move Online (Wired) 12Dec http://www.wirednews.com/news/culture/0,1284,40628,00.html Literature and artworks snipped and banned by Singapore's censors may soon be archived online in their full glory by a group of local artists. Artists will submit their material to the site, which will carry accounts from other parties such as government agencies to give a balanced view. Canada must promote Internet economy (Star) 12Dec http://www.thestar.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+FTContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=976509100716&call_page=TS_Business&call_pageid=968350072197 It's obvious the Internet is having a noticeable impact on the lives of people and on the ways companies transact business. E-mail, e-commerce and surfing the Web are commonplace for a growing number of Canadians, while an increasing number of companies are conducting business transactions over the Internet. But the big question is what long-term impact the Internet will have on the living standards of Canadians. Canberra to lead in e-voting (Australian IT) 12Dec http://www.australianit.com.au/common/storyPage/0,3811,1508881%5E1285,00.html Canberrans will be the first voters in the world to use electronic voting for their preference-based government elections. Web privacy programs scrutinized (Nando Times) 12Dec http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/0,1643,500289295-500458110-503021369-0,00.html Privacy-certification programs are supposed to be the Good Housekeeping seals of approval for the Internet, telling online shoppers which Web sites they can trust to protect their privacy and which may play fast and loose with sensitive personal data. Global Internet Liberty Campaign Member Letter on Council of Europe Convention on Cyber-Crime Version 24.2 (GILC) 12Dec http://www.gilc.org/privacy/coe-letter-1200.html To our dismay and alarm, the convention continues to be a document that threatens the rights of the individual while extending the powers of police authorities, creates a low-barrier protection of rights uniformly across borders, and ignores highly-regarded data protection principles. Amnesty Intercepted: Global human rights groups blocked by Web censoring software (Peacefire) 12Dec http://www.peacefire.org/amnesty-intercepted/ Prompted by numerous student reports of being unable to access Amnesty International and other human-rights-related Web sites from school computers, Peacefire tested several popular blocking programs used in schools, to see which of these sites were blocked. We configured the programs to block only the kinds of Web sites that would be blocked in a typical school setting (pornography, drugs, violence, etc.), so that purely political sites should have been accessible. But we found several Amnesty-related sites blocked by the software we tested, including several documents on Amnesty.org itself blocked by CYBERsitter, chapters of Amnesty International Israel blocked by Cyber Patrol and SurfWatch, and several human rights groups blocked by Bess. _____________________________________________________________________________ http://clubs.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Clubs - Join a club or build your own! * APPLe: To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe" to apple-request@apnic.net * From owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Thu Dec 14 04:58:08 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ns.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id EAA85212; Thu, 14 Dec 2000 04:58:07 +1000 (EST) Received: from web1301.mail.yahoo.com (web1301.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.23.151]) by ns.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id EAA85208 for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2000 04:58:04 +1000 (EST) Received: (qmail 22319 invoked by uid 60001); 13 Dec 2000 18:58:02 -0000 Message-ID: <20001213185802.22318.qmail@web1301.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [193.83.183.204] by web1301.mail.yahoo.com; Thu, 14 Dec 2000 05:58:02 EST Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 05:58:02 +1100 (EST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?David=20Goldstein?= Subject: ICRA Launches New System to Make the Internet Safer for Children To: APPLe MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Precedence: bulk Hi all ICRA, the Internet Content Rating Association, has just announced the launch of their content labelling scheme. If you are interested, read on, or see http://www.icra.org/press/releases.html for links to US, German, Spanish or French versions. Cheers David ICRA Launches New System to Make the Internet Safer for Children ICRA news release - 13 December http://www.icra.org/press/en_p12.html A significant new development in the effort to protect children online, while respecting the free speech rights of content providers, is being unveiled today by the Internet Content Rating Association [ICRA], an independent, non-profit organisation, based in Europe and North America. The new content labelling system, which can be found at www.icra.org, is the culmination of a year's consultation exercise to create an internationally acceptable rating system which could be adapted to different national, cultural and individual needs. The second part of the system, a filter that allows parents to set their own controls, will be launched mid 2001. "A significant inhibitor to the growth of the Internet is parental concern about unsuitable material," says Stephen Balkam, Executive director of ICRA. "Parents in particular are concerned about what their children will see and experience on the web. We are confident that the new ICRA system will give parents a useful tool to help them to overcome their concerns without interfering with freedom of expression." ICRA has evolved from the US-based Recreational Software Advisory Council Internet rating system [RSACi]. RSACi was developed in the US in 1996 with only four categories - nudity, sex, language and violence. ICRA is a global system with more categories of concern, including the promotion of drugs, alcohol, tobacco and weapons. All of the descriptions against which sites are rated are neutral. Context variables are included for the first time to distinguish sites that have educational, artistic or medical content and there is a new category to deal with chat rooms. ICRA is supported by a board whose membership reads like a 'who's who' of some of the world's leading Internet and communication companies including AOL, Bell Canada, British Telecom, Cable & Wireless, IBM, Microsoft, Novell, OnDigital and The Bertelsmann Foundation. Each provides first class expertise and experience in Internet service, content provision, telecommunications and browser technology fields. This co-operation between competitors reflects the Industry's concerns about responsible Internet development and its recognition that only by working together can they provide the reassurance needed to make the Internet a vital tool, accessible to everyone. A recent court case where paedophile, Patrick Green, used the anonymity of the Internet to lure a minor into his home, highlighted the vulnerability of children to not only direct contact from dangerous elements such as Green, but also to Internet sites that subject children to harrowing images and messages of pornography, violence and hatred. ICRA uses PICS (Platform for Internet Content Selection), developed by the World Wide Web Consortium, which enables labels (metadata) to be associated with Internet content. It was originally designed to help parents and teachers control what children access on the Internet. To label a site the content provider completes a questionnaire at the ICRA website - www.icra.org. From there the ICRA labelling engine creates an appropriately formatted label following the PICS standard that contains details of the website being labelled. This is then presented to the provider on screen and via e-mail. This label is then pasted in to the head of the web page and transmitted with every serving of that particular page. The system allows for the labelling of a single page, a directory or an entire site with a single label saving the content provider from having to paste the label in to every single page. Web pages carrying content labels of this sort can be read and interpreted by applications on PCs and desktops that provide a level of filtering based on the content of the label found. Current examples of these applications are Microsoft's Internet Explorer Content Advisor and Netscape's NetWatch. This means that almost everyone with a PC already has the tools to read the ICRA labels without any further applications or cost. The actual engine is hosted by Cable & Wireless in their state of the art Network Operations Centre in Swindon, UK and enjoys unparalleled connectivity to the Internet. Concludes Sheridan Scott, ICRA chair and Chief regulatory officer, Bell Canada: "ICRA is committed to providing a system that is objective. We do not operate with any censorial or moral agenda. We simply want to provide a means for parents and other responsible adults to be able to choose what their charges view. Only by providing systems like this that help reassure parents that the Internet can be a safe learning and communication tool can it reach its full potential for everyone." -ENDS- Notes for editors: ICRA: The Internet Content Rating Association (ICRA) is an independent non-profit organisation with offices in Europe (UK) and the USA. ICRA's mission is to protect children from potentially harmful material on the Internet, whilst protecting the content providers' freedom of expression. ICRA works in partnership with content providers toward the responsible development and growth of the Internet and is supported by AOL, Bell Canada, The Bertelsmann Foundation, BT, Cable & Wireless, Digimarc, Electronic Network Consortium (Japan), EuroISPA, IBM, Internet Watch Foundation, Microsoft Corp, Network Solutions Inc, Novell, OnDigital, PAGi (Singapore), Software and Information Industry Association, T-Online, Thus and UUNet. ICRA is currently developing a new global system which will provide content providers with a tool to label their content objectively and parents with a device to filter content according to what they feel is appropriate for their children to view. The revised ICRA system will be launched in two parts - the labeling system for content providers is now available and the filtering systems for parents will be available in 2001. As well as the ICRA labelling system, the organisation owns and operates the RSACi (Recreational Software Advisory Council on the Internet) rating and filtering system, which is integrated into Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Netscape's Navigator. The RSACi system provides customers with information about the level of sex, nudity, violence, and offensive language in websites. Also see http://www.icra.org/press/releases.html for US, German, Spanish and French versions of this news release. ===== David Goldstein Schallmooser Haupstr. 40/3 A-5020 Salzburg Austria email: Goldstein_David@yahoo.com.au phone: +43 699 1097 6197 (mobile) _____________________________________________________________________________ http://clubs.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Clubs - Join a club or build your own! * APPLe: To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe" to apple-request@apnic.net *