Microsoft Tackles the Child Pornography Problem: (New York imes) The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children assists law-enforcement authorities by culling through 250,000 images a week, looking for illegal material, and sends daily alerts…
'Iranian cyber army' hits Twitter: (BBC) A group claiming to be the Iranian Cyber Army managed to redirect Twitter users to its own site displaying a political message. Twitter said the attack had been carried…
AU – could soon have the most restrictive internet regime in the Western world: (Sydney Morning Herald) Senator Stephen Conroy’s consultation paper on mandating the filtering of internet sites by Australian internet service providers suggests…
The truth behind Punternet.com, 2009 – Wikileaks: Punternet.com is a website for those who use prostitutes to write about their experiences in the similar manner to product review sites — price, location, features and quality….
BPI: Growing Threat From Illegal Web Downloads: “Growing Threat From Illegal Web Downloads, 18 December 2009. Survey Shows Peer-to-peer use remains level, but other methods of illegal downloading on the rise • Levels of illegal…
Iranian hackers ‘hijack’ Twitter: Popular online messaging service Twitter was left reeling overnight, after Iranian hackers appeared to break into the site and deface it. The strike left the site completely unavailable for several hours…
Britain, Long a Libel Mecca, Reviews Laws: “England’s libel laws, which favor complainants, are under attack from publishers, scientists and others.” (Via NYT > Freedom of Speech and Expression.)
China Imposes New Internet Controls: “The new measures limit ordinary citizens’ ability to set up personal Web sites and to view hundreds of other sites.” (Via NYT > Freedom of Speech and Expression.)
Libel laws stifle jokes by Alexei Sayle and Ricky Gervais: Top comedians and wits, including Alexei Sayle, Ricky Gervais and Stephen Fry, say Britain is being turned into a ‘global laughing stock’ because of its…
Sexual offenders are using the internet to fast-track abuse: “(Daily Telegraph) Sexual offenders are using the internet to fast-track abuse, according to new research. Previous studies into child sexual abuse had shown that offenders spent…