Sunday, January 20

Première au Canada: un site révisionniste interdit pour propagande haineuse (AFP)
Le site internet du révisionniste d'origine allemande Ernst Zundel est "illégal", a jugé le Tribunal canadien des Droits de la Personne, rendant "une décision fondamentale dans la toute première plainte" portant "sur un site internet de propagande haineuse".

Australia - Keeping children safe on the Internet (ABA) The Australian Broadcasting Authority has launched an education program to help keep children safe on the Internet. Cybersmart Kids Online - smart net surfing for kids and their grownups' features a range of material, including an updated website, brochures and posters providing tools and information for adults supervising children, and friendly tips for children to be Internet savvy. The program has been formulated in response to the ABA's Internet@home research.

Saturday, January 19

A programme for child protection on the Internet (ESC)
Opinion of the Economic and Social Committee. Rapporteur Ann Davison. Appendices: safer surfing advice to parents and guidelines to children, results of survey under the CISA project funded by Safer Internet Action Plan.

Ukraine Ramrods Piracy Bill (Reuters)
Ukraine's parliament approved a watered-down law aimed at cracking down on pirated compact discs in hopes that the move would avert $75 million in U.S. trade sanctions.

Zwei Fünftel der Bundesbürger sind online (Heise)
Rund 27,8 Millionen Deutsche im Alter über 14 Jahre sind jetzt online. Das sind mehr als zwei Fünftel der Bundesbürger. Im vergangenen Jahr sind zehn Millionen neue Nutzer hinzugekommen, ermittelte die jüngste Internet-Studie @facts.

Data protection: Commission recognises adequacy of Canadian regime (Europa)
The European Commission has recognised that the Canadian Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act provides adequate protection for certain personal data transferred from the EU to Canada. This will allow certain personal data to flow freely from the EU to recipients in Canada subject to the Canadian Act, without additional safeguards being needed to meet the requirements of the EU Data Protection Directive.

UK Government To Check On Web Privacy Compliance (Newsbytes)
The U.K. Information Commissioner's office, formerly known as the Data Protection Registrar, says it will check on data protection compliance at various Web sites. The project will take in results from around 130 U.K. Web sites and should be completed by May,

Developers Will Be Saviors Of 3G - Report (Newsbytes)
The future of the entire third-generation (3G) wireless industry depends on the success of a small number of application developers, a new report proclaims. The study, "The Savior of 3G," from Sweden's Mobile Metrix and published by telecom consultancy BWCS, says that there are currently no "killer applications" for 3G, mainly because very few carriers have developed mainstream non-voice services on their existing second-generation (2G) cellular networks.

Details On Severe IE Hole Posted Online (Newsbytes)
Instructions on how to exploit a critical security hole discovered last month in Microsoft's latest Web browser were posted on the Internet, raising concerns that malicious code may soon appear that takes advantage of the flaw. Security experts said the Internet Explorer file execution vulnerability is one of the most severe ever found, because it enables an attacker to run a program on another user's computer simply by causing the victim to view a Web page or open an HTML e-mail.

Lawmakers Urge Stronger Telecom Act Enforcement From FCC (Newsbytes)
A bipartisan group of lawmakers sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell urging him to adopt strict standards governing Baby Bell phone companies make their networks available to competitors.

IAB Sets Online Ad Measurement Standards (Newsbytes)
The Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) unveiled new guidelines to sharpen the accuracy of audience measurement in hopes of propping up the struggling online ad market.

Windows Media Player 'Super Cookies' Could Help Track Users (Newsbytes)
A user identification technology built into Microsoft's Windows Media Player could enable Web sites to track users, a privacy watchdog warned. According to Richard M. Smith, the unique identification number assigned by default to every Windows Media Player user can be captured from the user's system registry using a simple script in a Web page.

Italy Investigates, Does Not Indict Infiltrators (Newsbytes)
Italian authorities identified, but did not arrest, six young hackers who launched attacks on computer systems at the Pentagon and NASA. The Italian Guardia di Finanza has identified the hackers as six boys and men between the ages of 15 and 23.

Broadband Connects 6% Of W. Europe's Homes - Liikanen (Newsbytes)
Broadband Internet penetration now stands at 6 percent of Western European homes, according to Erkki Liikanen, the European Commissioner for Enterprise and the Information Society. He also said in a speech that, despite the recent economic downturn, the Internet is here to stay. Speaking at the Oracle "Leaders Circle" conference in Amsterdam, Liikanen told delegates that e-commerce is an important part of the commission's drive to forge a dynamic and competitive knowledge-based economy.

Report Blames Retailers For U.K.'s Digital TV Woes (Newsbytes)
A report from the GartnerG2 research operation says retailers in the U.K. and across Europe have failed to market digital TV as an interactive medium.

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