The UK Government is to combat the early sexualization of children by blocking internet pornography unless parents request it, it was revealed today.
The move is intended to ensure that children are not exposed to sex as a routine by-product of the internet. It follows warnings about the hidden damage being done to children by sex sites — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Facebook, the world’s most popular social networking site, is giving companies access to some of its members’ private information without their knowledge.
Firms can override members’ privacy settings to gather their work history, hobbies and social activities, date of birth and photographs — via redwolf.newsvine.com
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says the website will stay strong and keep publishing diplomatic cables despite another funding blow — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Few devices know more personal details about people than the smartphones in their pockets: phone numbers, current location, often the owner’s real name—even a unique ID number that can never be changed or turned off.
These phones don’t keep secrets. They are sharing this personal data widely and regularly, a Wall Street Journal investigation has found — via michaelsautter.newsvine.com
That enormous sigh of relief you heard yesterday was likely from 5,400 unidentified porn downloaders reacting to a West Virginia judge’s ruling that an adult-film producer cannot force their unmasking in an effort to sue them for copyright infringement.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is calling the judge’s decision a big victory in the fight against copyright trolls
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says he fears the US is preparing to indict him, as he spends his first day on bail on an English country estate — via The Independent
Some of Australia’s most senior media professionals, including bosses of major newspapers, television networks and websites, have written to Prime Minister Julia Gillard to express their support for WikiLeaks.
The letter was initiated by the board of the Walkley Foundation, Australia’s professional journalism organisation — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The pious Orthodox Jew who is also a notorious slumlord—now there’s a touchy subject, especially inside the large and diverse community of Jews in New York. After the Voice published its series this spring on the city’s 10 worst landlords, which included some religious Jews, Rabbi Jill Jacobs tackled the topic, writing a column titled When the Slumlords Are Us
for the Forward. This was already a familiar subject for the Conservative rabbi and activist — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Women who have given up their babies for adoption are still having problems making contact with them more than 20 years after laws were changed to make it easier, usually because they feel they do not deserve to fight for their rights, a study has found — via redwolf.newsvine.com
I go to log into my business account, and it’s locked. The girl on the phone told me it’s because my account handles a large amount of money (it’s a biz account), I recently sent a lot of money ($4000) overseas, and I also sent money to WikiLeaks. My account is being investigated for illegal activities and I have to account for what the money was used for. They want invoices and such — via benno.newsvine.com
Web attacks carried out in support of WikiLeaks are being wound down as activists consider changing tactics.
Attacks against Amazon were called off late on 9 December and re-directed towards net payments firm Paypal. Analysis suggests the earlier attacks were made more effective by the involvement of hi-tech criminals — via dungbeetlemania.newsvine.com
Botnets, networks of thousands of computers working in tandem, have become one of the most pervasive threats on the Internet – a tool used by criminals for extortion, spamming and identity theft – but also by hacktivist groups that want attention.
Anonymous has taken a different approach with Operation Payback, the name it has given its bid to avenge efforts to shut down WikiLeaks. It is building its own home-grown voluntary
botnet, attracting people to put the botnet software on their own computers. About 2,200 or more people have done so by one count — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Former whistleblower and independent MP Andrew Wilkie has issued a scathing attack against the Prime Minister’s handling of the WikiLeaks affair — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Australian-born human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson, QC, has cut short his summer holiday in Sydney to represent WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange after he turns himself in to British police — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The autopsy said 2-year-old Kent Schaible died after a two-week battle with bacterial pneumonia.
But to his parents, the cause of the boy’s fatal illness transcended any microbe.
We tried to fight the devil, but in the end the devil won,
Herbert Schaible, 42, told a city social worker just days after his son’s death on 24 January 2009 — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Facing a booing crowd in Europe, a PayPal executive tried to explain why his company blocked donations to WikiLeaks. He cited a letter from the State Department calling the secrets-sharing site illegal. Sadly for him, no such letter exists — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A small army of activist hackers orchestrated a broad campaign of cyberattacks on Wednesday in support of the beleaguered antisecrecy organization WikiLeaks, which has drawn governmental criticism from around the globe for its release of classified American documents and whose founder, Julian Assange, is being held in Britain on accusations of sex offenses.
Targets included Mastercard.com, which stopped processing donations for WikiLeaks; Amazon.com, which revoked server space from the group; the online payment service PayPal, which cut off its commercial cooperation; the lawyer representing the two Swedish women who have accused Mr Assange in the sex case; and PostFinance, the Swiss postal system’s financial arm, which closed Mr Assange’s account after saying he provided false information by saying that he resided in Switzerland — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Australia’s foreign minister has said the US is to blame for the release of thousands of diplomatic cables on WikiLeaks, not its Australian founder, Julian Assange — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Picture the scene: An intelligent young American reporter and her able cameraman are on assignment deep the heart of the old Cold War super power. Their story: Ten thousand protestors, led by a priest, outside a military school that has been proven to train death squads, rapists and high ranking war criminals. Each year some of the protesters deliberately cross into the base and are arrested, in an effort to draw attention to the plight of those killed and have the school closed.
This year, however, the police are more aggressive than usual, and they arrest protestors who remained outside. The journalists are arrested too. They are held for 32 hours then released after paying a fine.
It’s the kind of story that you’d expect to see in the hourly headlines on CNN — and every other western 24 hour news channel for each of those 32 hours. Afterward, there would have been extended exclusive interviews, maybe even on Oprah or Larry King.
And it might well have been — if it weren’t for the fact that the old Cold War superpower in question wasn’t Russia but the US — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The latest document release by WikiLeaks has attracted predictable condemnation from those who have a vested interest in maintaining a veil of secrecy over their activities. To a large extent the Australian media have missed the point of the document disclosures — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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