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Archive for 2010/07/06

Pirate Bay founder aims to make a Flattr world

Posted: 2010/07/06 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models

Mr Sunde has managed to convince investors that the idea is sound, both ideologically and financially. Flattr has angel backing from Stefan Glaenzer, Last.fm’s first investor and chairman, and Eileen Burbidge, formerly of Skype. The pair run White Bear Yard, a hub for tech-startups in central London.

“When we invested, it was in Linus and Peter,” says Ms Burbidge, who says she’s unconcerned by Mr Sunde’s conviction in the Swedish courts in the Pirate Bay case (he says the appeal process will take so long he is unlikely ever to have to serve his jail sentence).

“These guys were in the team that was involved in carrying 48 per cent of the world’s internet traffic,” says Ms Burbidge. “They know how to scale.”

http://blogs.ft.com/techblog/2010/07/pirate-bay-founder-aims-to-make-the-world-flattr/

AT&T Is Capping Upload Data Speeds

Posted: 2010/07/06 in Bandwidth Management, Mobile tech

http://gizmodo.com/5580418/att-is-capping-upload-data-speeds

U.S. Gov’s Apps Let You Find Embassies, Track Recalls, and Hunt FBI’s Most Wanted

Posted: 2010/07/06 in Education / Awareness, Enforcement, New Business Models, Public Policy

http://gizmodo.com/5580647/us-govs-apps-let-you-find-embassies-track-recalls-and-hunt-fbis-most-wanted

Wikileaks US Army mole Manning charged

Posted: 2010/07/06 in Education / Awareness, Network Security, Privacy / Data Protection, Public Policy

Will face military justice overseas

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/07/06/manning_formally_charged/

Apple ads to target your iTunes history

Posted: 2010/07/06 in Mobile tech, New Business Models, Online advertising, Privacy / Data Protection

Jobs knows what you want

Apple is using the immense amount of data that it has collected from its 150 million iTunes accounts to help its iAd advertisers target their pitches to users of iOS 4 devices

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/07/06/apple_targets_ads/

Geo-blocking online: It’s a business, not a legal issue

Posted: 2010/07/06 in Blocking, New Business Models

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/sports/blocking+online+business+legal+issue/3239411/story.html

8th German Anti Spam Summit: National Anti Botnet Initiatives Worldwide

Posted: 2010/07/06 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Filtering, Network Security, Privacy / Data Protection, Stats / reports

15th & 16th September 2010

http://www.eco.de/veranstaltungen/7752.htm

Among participants: Symantec, XS4ALL, ENISA and organizations from Japan, Australia, Korea and Canada

Convention on protection of children against sexual abuse comes into force

Posted: 2010/07/06 in Education / Awareness, Public Policy

The first ever international instrument aimed at tackling all forms of sexual violence against children came into force yesterday, following the ratification of the convention by five member states of the Council of Europe.

There are more than one million images of about 10,000 to 20,000 sexually abused children posted on the internet. Of these, only a few hundred are identified; the rest are anonymous, abandoned, and most likely still abused

http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=108343

Film, TV industry bedrock of U.S. economy

Posted: 2010/07/06 in Education / Awareness

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90778/90858/90864/7054174.html

Images leave lasting impression on Censor

Posted: 2010/07/06 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Filtering, Public Policy

New Zealand’s Chief Censor says he never got used to the disturbing material he had to view in his role

“We are trying to arm people and inform people to become their own classification office.”

http://tvnz.co.nz/entertainment-news/images-leave-lasting-impression-censor-3625460

Pornographers and parents should unite

Posted: 2010/07/06 in Education / Awareness, Filtering, Mobile tech

- of 14 to 16-year-olds at a random London secondary school, 65 per cent had seen hardcore internet porn, a third of them when aged 10 years or younger

- I don’t want censorship, for the Government to force internet service providers (ISPs) — non-geeks, this means Virgin or BT or whoever supplies your broadband — to filter adult content. Rather, what if ISPs simply changed their assumption that we all want adult content streamed into our homes?

- Now if you buy a mobile — with any network except Orange — adult content is blocked on all contracts unless you specify otherwise.

- Crazily enough, 1.6 per cent of ISPs still refuse to filter out images of child abuse. What fearless champions of freedom they are.

- Just as newspapers have declined, so porn film-makers have suffered 80 per cent losses in recent years, now that customers have their needs, er, met by free content.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/janice_turner/article7148470.ece