Public school science teachers who want to teach intelligent design
alongside evolution and want to challenge the accepted scientific views about global warming would be protected under a bill introduced in the House — via jarandhel.newsvine.com
Internet filters in schools often compromise a teacher’s ability to teach, yet at the same time are easy for tech-savvy students to get around, a parliamentary committee on cyber bullying has heard — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Australia and the United States have begun a partnership to share top-secret intelligence from spy satellites as Australia moves to acquire its own satellite to boost surveillance of Asia and the Pacific — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Quadrature du Net’s repository of #cablegate cables related to ACTA, the secretive copyright treaty reveal that governments all over the world were pissed off that the USA and Japan wouldn’t let them discuss the treaty with their citizens and industry — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Genetically modified crops will be allowed to enter the UK food chain without the need for regulatory clearance for the first time under controversial plans expected to be approved this week — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Mobile phone firm Vodafone has accused the Egyptian authorities of using its network to send unattributed text messages supporting the government — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Amongst all of this our own government’s response has been tepid, confused and contradictory. The response to Clinton’s speech, as we have noted before, was cringeworthy in its brazen twisting of her words to support a pro-censorship agenda. The reaction to the Wikileaks developments should have been a principled stand on free speech and the rights of an Australian citizen, but turned into a posturing witch-hunt.
And today, Senator Conroy has was asked about the crisis in Egypt, where a desperate government cut internet access in order to hinder protestors. The minister in response declared his undying love for an Internet free of government control and assured us that such a thing could never happen in Australia — via redwolf.newsvine.com
How much privacy does an employee have when using a work laptop at home?
Not much, it seems, after a senior public servant was sacked after googling the word knockers
and looking at legal pornography. That was despite the access being out of work hours and the public servant using his own internet service provider.
The public servant, from the Commonwealth Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism, was sacked after a software program, called Spector360, was set up by the department to catch any use of the word knockers
.
The program, which takes a snapshot of a user’s desktop every 30 seconds, was then used to unearth the internet history of the man with a 25-year career with the public service. It uncovered his usage despite him having deleted his browser history — via richardfarner.newsvine.com
Indian Blackberry users could face a ban after the gadget’s maker failed to meet a government deadline to grant access to all its services — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The UK government has announced that it is to look again at plans to block websites that infringe copyright — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Even if the internet is down, people in Egypt can still use Twitter through a new service from Google and Twitter — via redwolf.newsvine.com
An Australian man who cycled around Europe looking for his missing son has returned home to Sydney with the six-year-old boy — via redwolf.newsvine.com
International marriages are on the rise, and subsequently so are cases in which former spouses engage in international custody battles over their children.
To help address this situation, the government set up a senior vice-ministerial council involving related ministries and tasked with discussing the possibility of Japan joining an international convention. The discussions necessary for Japan to join the convention should be expedited.
The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction contains the principle that children from an international marriage who are removed from their country of residence by one of their divorced parents, without the other parent’s consent, must be returned to the country of residence.
Signatory nations are obligated to provide administrative cooperation in such efforts as discovering the whereabouts of such children and restoring them to their country of habitual residence.
Eighty-two countries, mostly in the West and Latin America, have signed the convention, while Japan has not — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Schools, hospitals, churches and other public sites are being systematically rezoned for residential development across the state in what critics say means open slather for land to be sold to developers without safeguards — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Vodafone Group has shut down cell phone service in Egypt after being ordered to do so by the government, which is under siege by protesters — via redwolf.newsvine.com
US investigators have been unable to find evidence directly linking WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and Bradley Manning, the army private suspected of passing on confidential documents to the whistleblowing website, according to a report last night — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A council is proposing to save money – and combat global warming – by heating a leisure centre and swimming pool using heat generated by the crematorium next door — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Beset by war against violent extremists, Pakistan is now thrusting itself on to the frontline of a silent battle: the world’s final assault on polio.
Asif Ali Zardari, the country’s president, is launching an emergency drive to immunise 32 million children under the age of five against polio, aiming to reverse an alarming surge in cases last year. — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A founder of the internet has heaped praise on the National Broadband Network but warned it will be difficult to predict its economic benefits — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The independent MP Nick Xenophon will push for a Senate inquiry into the flood insurance market as the Coalition backed calls for insurers to broaden access to policies and develop a standard flood definition — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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