[LINK] stories relating to kids and the Net

[David Goldstein]

For those interested, a few stories based around child protection
issues.

Cheers
David
Cyber-savvy means safe
 (Times) 13Nov
 http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,34413,00.html
Why bar your children from the wonders of the web, says Anna
Söderblom, when teaching them some commonsense guidelines can help
them to enjoy happy, confident surfing.

Bright sparks, our kids
 (Times) 13Nov
 http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,34074,00.html
An educational site has been launched that aims to make learning fun
and get parents directly involved.

Child charities unite against Yahoo! chat
 (ZDNet) 13Nov
 http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/2000/45/ns-19013.html
Childwatch International has added its voice to the list of leading
charities condemning Yahoo!'s policy on Internet chatrooms.

Child Porn-Fighting Adult Site Can't Get Fed Dialogue
 (AVN) 13Oct
 http://www.avn.com/ng/query.cgi?act=detail&in=news&eid=6373
Alec Helmy and his Adult Sites Against Child Pornography have a
little problem when it comes to waging their war against child porn -
they're damned if they can get the Feds, who often enough proclaim
their own war on child porn, to return their calls or even
acknowledge their existence and willingness to help.

EBay Not Liable for Goods That Are Illegal
 (NY Times) 13Nov
 http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/13/technology/13EBAY.html
In a decision that could set the stage for how courts respond to
accusations of fraud in online auctions, a state judge in San
Francisco ruled that eBay could not be held liable for bootlegged
music sold using its Web site.

Anti-Porno-Filter fürs Internet entwickelt
 (internet.com) 13Nov
 http://de.internet.com/artikel/index.jsp?2000209
Einen Anti-Porno-Filter fürs Internet haben Mitarbeiter des
nationalen französischen Informatik- und
Automations-Forschungsinstituts INRIA entwickelt.

The buck stops at the parent
 (Times) 12Nov

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/11/12/stidordor01010.html
An internet company called Excite used to be best known as a search
engine. Now it provides more than you might have bargained for. On
its opening page, you can look up the most popular words that people
search for. In the first of a two-part guide to child safety, Sally
Kinnes discovers how easy it is to access online pornography.

Chat Room Causes Trouble for CIA Employees
 (Washington Post) 12Nov
 http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64444-2000Nov11.html
The CIA is investigating 160 employees and contractors for exchanging
"inappropriate" e-mail and off-color jokes in a secret chat room
created within the agency's classified computer network and hidden
from management.
Also see CIA investigates workers' covert chat room (Nando times)
12Nov
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/0,1643,500278921-500437402-502793780-0,00.html

Cybercops squad to fight crime with computers
 (Times) 12Nov

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/11/12/stinwenws01004.html
Britain is to get an elite £20m unit of "cybercops" to fight internet
fraudsters, paedophiles and hackers.

New kids on the net
 (Daily Telegraph) 12Nov

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000140326706927&rtmo=QwmaOmLR&atmo=rrrrrrrq&pg=/et/00/11/12/cakids12.html
Internet companies should target over-55s rather than focusing their
marketing and advertising resources on the stereotypical trendy young
internet users. The increasing number of wrinkly surfers is just one
of the findings of the largest study of UK internet usage habits,
which will be published this week by MMXI Europe, the internet
audience measurement group.

Anti-Porno-Filter fürs Internet aus Frankreich
 (Heise) 11Nov
 http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/jk-11.11.00-003/
Einen automatischen Anti-Porno-Filter fürs Internet haben Mitarbeiter
des nationalen französischen Informatik- und
Automations-Forschungsinstituts INRIA entwickelt. Das Image Filter
genannte Programm, das Bilder mit pornografischen Vorlagen
vergleicht, sie analysiert und auf einer Bewertungsskala zwischen 0
und 100 einstuft, ist nach Angaben der Zeitung Liberation zu 98
Prozent erfolgreich.

Anti-Porno-Filter fürs  Internet entwickelt
 (Rheinische Post) 11Nov
 http://www.rp-online.de/news/multimedia/online/antiporn.html

Treffsicherer Anti-Porno-Filter fürs Internet
 (tecChannel.de) 11Nov
 http://www.tecchannel.de/news/20001111/thema20001111-2964.html

Cyberterror Should Be Int’l Crime - Israeli Minister
 (Newsbytes) 10Nov
 http://www.newsbytes.com/news/00/157986.html
As pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian hackers continue to attack Middle
Eastern Web sites, Israel's former science minister has called for an
international convention that would make sabotage over the Internet
an international crime, "just like any other terrorism."

ICANN Staff Opposes ".kids," ".xxx" Domains
 (NY Times) 10Nov
 http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-3625612.html
In expanding the pool of Internet addresses, the system's governing
body should reject proposals for children and adult domains such as
".kids" and ".xxx" but embrace applications such as ".biz" and
".dot".


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