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Archive for June 10th, 2008

Study: Teens Find Ways to Access Porn Despite Net Filters

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

Study: Teens Find Ways to Access Porn Despite Net Filters: “At a recent Brigham Young University conference experts warned parents that despite the installation of online porn filters, teenagers are finding ways to access adult content.”

(Via XBIZ.com | News & Articles.)

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EU mulls intervention over BT’s secret Phorm trials

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

EU mulls intervention over BT’s secret Phorm trials:

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The European Commission is considering intervening over the failure of UK data watchdogs to punish BT for the way it secretly co-opted tens of thousands of customers into trials of Phorm’s profiling system to serve them targeted advertising.…

(Via The Register - Comms.)

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3 US Net Providers Will Block Sites With Child Sex

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

I thought they might use the British CleanFeed system but apparently the companies have agreed to shut down access to Usenet newsgroups that traffic in pornographic images of children. The US ISPs are a bit slow on this as the UK ISPs have been blocking access to similar Usenet newsgroups since 1996…

3 Net Providers Will Block Sites With Child Sex: “Verizon, Sprint and Time Warner Cable have agreed to block access to Web sites that spread child pornography.

(Via NYT > Technology.)

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