EU – European Commission calls on social networking companies to improve child safety policies: (RAPID) 50% of European teenagers give out personal information on the web – according to an EU study – which can…
EU – Implementation of the Safer Social Networking Principles: (Europa) On 9 February 2010, Safer Internet Day, the European Commission has presented the findings of an independent assessment of the implementation of the Safer Social…
UK – Facebook takes down 30 prisoners' pages after victim taunts: (Guardian) Thirty Facebook pages have been taken down because prisoners were using them to taunt their victims, Jack Straw, the justice secretary, has revealed….
YouTube's new tool for kid-safe viewing: (Net Family News) More than 33 billion online videos were watched during December and about a third of the them were on YouTube, according to comScore’s latest figures. A…
Google shuts down music blogs without warning: (BBC) Bloggers told they have violated terms without further explanation, as years of archives are wiped off the internet. In what critics are calling ‘musicblogocide 2010’, Google has…
AU – Google and Yahoo raise doubts over planned net filters: “(BBC) Google and Yahoo have joined two Australian organisations calling for a ‘rethink’ of the country’s controversial internet filter plans. The Australian government has…
DE – New Internet Legislation Embarrasses German Government: “(Der Spiegel) A new bill to fight child pornography has been signed into law by Germany’s president. There’s only one problem: The government has decided it no…
CN – China introduces tougher measures to combat providers of online porn: (Xinhua) The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has pledged fresh measures to fight offensive content transmitted by mobile phones and websites….
Google Alters Buzz to Tackle Privacy Flaws: (New York Times) Google moved quickly to contain a firestorm of criticism over Buzz, its new social network, taking the unusual step of announcing changes to the product…