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Aussie Gov't to Pilot Nationwide 'Net Filter

The Australian government is moving forward with plans to implement a nationwide online filter of objectionable material. The filter is one component of an $82 million cybersafety effort to protect children from exploitation and discourage adults from downloading illegal content, including terrorist materials or child pornography,   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, December 16th 2008

Major Report Says Piracy Kills Entertainment

According to a recent report, the "ready availability" of pirated materials has caused a slowdown in the film, TC, and music industries after years of uninterrupted growth. The news is attributed to a new 400-page report from the Paris-based Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, which represents the world's 30 richest nations, according to Ad Week.   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, October 31st 2007

Facebook Surfers Cost Australian Enterprises $4B

Facebook surfers are costing Australian companies billions of dollars a year in lost productivity. According to internet security company SurfControl, there are more than 230,000 Australians already signed up on Facebook, and more than 100 new users sign up per hour, writes Reuters (  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, August 21st 2007

OLPC Bestows Porn onto Guileless Third World Masses

With what can perhaps only be called an unexpected outcome of the greater good, the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative has inadvertently brought pornography to primary schools the world over. At least, that's what the News Agency of Nigeria says, reports TechCrunch. A report from the agency finds laptops at a primary school in Abuja "have gone awry as the pupils freely browse adult site  [...]
Posted: Monday, July 23rd 2007

Elaph Editor: Saudi Conservatives Block Critical Online News

The managing editor of Elaph says Saudi Arabia  is blocking one of the Arab world's most popular online news outlets, bowing to pressure from religious conservatives, according to The Globe and Mail. Elaph has become a major source for political and entertainment news since its 2001 launch, hovering at abo  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, July 11th 2007

Canadian Teachers Put Foot Down on Cyber Bullying

Teachers across Canada are increasingly concerned about online bullying, reports The Globe and Mail, and this week, they will try developing national policy for protecting students and educators from the tactic. A Toronto-based gathering of the Canadian Teachers' Federation will try to tackle the elusive problem of bullying over the Internet. The Federation   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, July 10th 2007

YouTube Pulls Video of McCain Singing 'Bomb Iran'

YouTube said Friday it had erroneously deleted and would restore a video of presidential candidate John McCain singing an impromptu song about bombing Iran, reports CNET. During a campaign stop in South Carolina last week, the Arizona senator sang the tune of the Beach Boys song "Barbara Ann," but wit  [...]
Posted: Monday, April 23rd 2007

(RED) Campaign Spawns BUY (LESS) Backlash

A Buy (LESS) campaign was launched this week at buylesscrap.org to protest the shop-to-give charity business model to raise money for the Global Fund via the recent (RED) cause marketing campaign, according to the MarketingProfs Daily Fix. Created   [...]
Posted: Thursday, March 1st 2007

Repressive States Chided for Net Censorship

Reporters Without Borders has compiled a list of the countries it says are the worst offenders in censoring the internet. The Paris-based group recently staged 24-hour protests in public spaces in New York and Paris to condemn 13 countries for their censorship of internet journalists, writes BusinessWeek. The 17,000 or so attendees of the protests v  [...]
Posted: Friday, November 10th 2006

Music Industry Files 8,000 New Lawsuits Worldwide

A global music industry group has filed 8,000 lawsuits against alleged illegal file-sharers around the world in an effort to discourage online piracy. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) on Tuesday said it had filed suits in 17 countries, including the first such actions in Brazil, Mexico and Poland, Reuters   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, October 17th 2006

NY Times Censors Itself

New York Times readers in Britain may have been disappointed if they attempted to read the lead story on the NYTimes.com website due to self-censorship exploiting the site's regional ad targeting technology. The Times reports on the issue and includes its justification from legal counsel, referring to  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, August 30th 2006

U.S. Supremacy Extends Even to Spam

Despite being seriously outnumbered, the U.S. managed to outmaneuver China to achieve spam dominance in the second quarter; Russia, meanwhile, continued to lurk in the shadows, pulling spam's concealed strings. The U.S. remained the world's leading spamming country, accounting for 23.2 percent of all spam sent out in the second quarter, with China close behind at 20.0 percent, according to security company Sophos,   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, July 25th 2006

Amnesty: U.S. Net Giants Violate Human Rights Declaration

Amnesty International has accused three of the net's largest players, among others, of violating the Universal Declaration on Human Rights by cooperating with China's censors. Microsoft, Google and Yahoo, and others, are colluding with China's efforts to censor the internet and are in denial over the human rights implications of their actions - and ignore their own stated commitments - Amnesty said, according to a Reu  [...]
Posted: Thursday, July 20th 2006

Online Orders from Abroad a Greater Fraud Risk

Some 55 percent of U.S.-based online merchants accepted orders from outside the U.S. and Canada in 2005, and those orders constituted 14 percent of their total sales, according to a CyberSource survey, writes Internet Retailer. However, the direct fraud rate on international orders averaged 2.4 percent - more than twice the overall average. Online merchants that sell outside North America say they reject internatio  [...]
Posted: Friday, February 10th 2006

U.S. Still Dominant in Spam, but Declining

Though the U.S. remains the world's worst source of spam, South Korea and China are quickly catching up as anti-spam efforts lower the amount of spam emanating from the U.S., reports CNET, citing a report from security software maker Sophos. According to data from April to September, the U.S. was the point of origin for about 26 percent of global spam, down from nearly 42 percent a year ag  [...]
Posted: Thursday, October 13th 2005

Al-Qaida Seeks Web Editing, Video Production Help

Internet-savvy Al-Qaida has put job advertisements on the web, asking for supporters to help put together its web statements and video montages, according to the London-based Arabic-language Asharq al-Awsat, Reuters reports. Apparently, al-Qaida had "vacant positions" for video production and for editing statements, footage and international media coverage about militants in Iraq, Palestine, Chechnya and other   [...]
Posted: Friday, October 7th 2005

'Net Result of China's Expurgation: Dystopic Isolation

In other words, the Great Firewall of China, along with similar efforts by other governments similarly inclined to control (as all governments tend to be), may well succeed in carving out what was "conceived as one global medium, by its nature open and free...into a system of Balkanized national networks," warns Tim Wu in Slate. A University of Virginia Law Sch  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, July 13th 2005

Feds, Worldwide Coalition Launch 'Zombie' Spam War

The Federal Trade Commission launched a campaign yesterday to educate internet service providers about "zombies" - computers that spammers hijack to send spam anonymously and avoid detection. "Operation Spam Zombies" will send 3,000 letters to ISPs, urging them to take measures that prevent their customers' computers from being hijacked by spammers. The FTC, U.S. Dep  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, May 25th 2005

Google's Censorship in China Worked, Wins Favor

This image found onGoogle's non-China sitesAfter complying with Chinese requirements that it censor its search engine results to those people reaching them in China, Google has won a business license to operate in the Communist state. Reuters   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, May 11th 2005

Survey: Spam, Fraud Reduce Online Buying Worldwide

Internet Retailer reports that some 33 percent of U.S. consumers, compared with approximately 20 percent worldwide, shop less online because of spam and internet-based fraud, according to a new poll from market researcher GMIPoll, which surveyed 20,000 online consumers worldwide. And 57 percent of those polled blamed the marketing and advertising industries for the increase in email. ISPs came in a close second in most countrie  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, May 4th 2005