In November last year Beth Harper-King, 12, was walking home from school with her mother when she received six phone calls on her mobile, 10 minutes apart.
The voice was unfamiliar, but each time the message was the same.
They wanted to rape me, kill me and do the exact same thing to [my] father,
Beth said.
Sometimes bullying does not leave an obvious trail, but in Beth’s case the boys who repeatedly phoned her had left their number showing — via redwolf.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
When a mother wrote a blog post called My Son is Gay
in November, it quickly went viral, getting more than a million hits online.
Now her church has accused her of libel and slander
— 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
India is all set to give hot yoga a cold shoulder.
In order to stop self-styled yoga gurus from claiming copyright to ancient asanas
, like Bikram Choudhury’s Hot Yoga — a set of 26 sequences practised in a heated room — India has completed documenting 1,300 asanas
which will soon be uploaded on the country’s Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL), making them public knowledge — via redwolf.newsvine.com
There are two irreconcilable versions of how that calm shattered. Rueda says that Noah was crying, and she picked him up, sat on the couch and gave him the bottle to help put him to sleep. While she was feeding him, she felt Noah’s arm go limp, and when she moved to take the bottle out of his mouth, he made a sound that she didn’t recognize. I could tell something was happening,
she says. She stood up and put Noah on her shoulder, patting him on the back. As I did this, his body tensed up in a ball. It was as if he was looking for air, and he couldn’t breathe.
Rueda put Noah on the floor and started CPR, at the same time reaching for her phone to call 911. She put the dispatcher on speakerphone so she could keep tending to Noah. I said, ‘Please, please get someone here’,
she said. I knew it could hurt him if there wasn’t enough oxygen going to his brain.
Erin Whitmer’s account of the moments before Noah lost consciousness is entirely different. Around 2:30 on April 20, 2009, Noah was shaken,
she wrote on her blog Noah’s Road, on the one-year anniversary of the incident. He’d been crying. He needed something that his day care provider wasn’t providing him. Maybe he was tired of lying on the mat where she’d had him. Maybe he needed a hug, a laugh, a kind touch. Instead, she picked him up, her fingers gripping him tightly, feeling the softness of his velour pants and his cotton onesie under her fingers, and she shook him.
Whitmer’s account of what Rueda must have done to Noah was based on evidence presented at Rueda’s trial and information from the doctors who treated him after he was rushed to Inova Fairfax Hospital. The doctors gave Noah a CT scan, which showed subdural haemorrhaging (bleeding in a space between the skull and the brain) and an ophthalmological exam revealed retinal haemorrhaging (bleeding at the back of the eyes). Also, his brain was swelling. For decades, these have been the three telltale signs linked to the kind of child abuse commonly called shaken-baby syndrome — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A prestigious economics think-tank of the Japanese Government has published a study which concludes that online piracy of anime shows actually increases sales of DVDs. The conclusion stands in sharp contrast with the entertainment industry’s claims that illicit
downloading is leading to billions of dollars in losses worldwide. It also puts the increased anti-piracy efforts of the anime industry in doubt — 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
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
In a departure from this blog’s usual jokey fisking, what follows is a guest post from fellow Manchester-dweller and fellow cool person Juliet Shaw. It’s the story of how she agreed to be the subject of what turned out to be a deeply misleading Mail article, and her subsequent fight against it. — via redwolf.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
In the estimation of the Sydney Peace Foundation, Australian WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange stands alongside the Dalai Lama and Nelson Mandela.
As he outrages and embarrasses world leaders by leaking secret US diplomatic cables – and continues to face down allegations of sex offences – Mr Assange has been chosen by the foundation to receive a rare gold medal for peace with justice.
The honour, previously given only to the Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela and Japanese lay Buddhist leader Daisaku Ikeda in the foundation’s 14-year history, has been bestowed for Mr Assange’s exceptional courage and initiative in pursuit of human rights
.
Foundation director Stuart Rees said today the Australian’s work had challenged the old order of power in politics and journalism.
Peace from our point of view is really about justice, fairness and the attainment of human rights,
Professor Rees told AAP — via richardfarner.newsvine.com
That confrontation, filmed in 2009, was the first of dozens that Hammonds and three friends caught on tape. They’ve paid dearly, spending thousands on legal fees and tickets, and sleeping multiple nights in county lockup. They’ve even seen their faces plastered on a warning flyer sent to departments around Miami-Dade County.
They’re part of a simmering national fight between citizen journalists and police departments that believe subjects have no right to film them. The battle over whether cops can arrest you just for videotaping them is quickly becoming the most hotly contested corner of American civil liberties law — 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
EFF has uncovered widespread violations stemming from FBI intelligence investigations from 2001 – 2008. In a report released today, EFF documents alarming trends in the Bureau’s intelligence investigation practices, suggesting that FBI intelligence investigations have compromised the civil liberties of American citizens far more frequently, and to a greater extent, than was previously assumed — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Police and the BC SPCA are investigating horrific
reports that the general manager for a Whistler tour company slaughtered at least 100 healthy sled dogs last year, dumping their bodies into a mass grave — 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
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