The UK governments Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries, Ed Vaizey, has ominously proposed that broadband ISPs could introduce a new Mediation Service that would allow them the freedom to censor third party content on the internet, without court intervention, in response to little more than a public complaint — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A botnet has been systematically attacking Web sites that post blogs or forums containing content critical of the Vietnamese Communist Party. The botnet, thought to include about 15,000 bots, is launching massive denial-of-service (DOS) attacks to make the content unavailable, according to security firm SecureWorks — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The National Broadband Network will give the government an extraordinary opportunity to push its internet censorship agenda on Australians, a cyberspace policy expert says — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Australian Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim has slammed the Federal Government’s proposed data retention law and called for an inquiry to ensure data is not mishandled if the plan goes ahead — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Thomas Young doesn’t like barking dogs. He hates them so much, in fact, that Stanwood Police say he came home drunk on Wednesday night and killed his roommate’s three mixed-breed puppies. Though Young, 56, is claiming he doesn’t know how the puppies died, the cops say they found him with blood on his hands and shirt and three no-longer-barking-dogs in his living room — via redwolf.newsvine.com
MI6 has declined to pass on information about individuals to foreign countries if it could lead to torture even though terrorist activity
could be the end result, the head of the agency said.
Sir John Sawers, responding to persistent allegations of collusion in torture by the security and intelligence agencies, described the potential to save lives but said the risk of human rights abuse threw up real, constant, operational dilemmas
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
A NSW high school has installed secure
fingerprint scanners for roll call, which savvy kids may be able to circumvent with sweets from their lunch box — via redwolf.newsvine.com
More than 1400 adults and children who were never convicted of a crime were imprisoned last year, some for months, and the time people spend behind bars before being cleared by the courts is getting longer — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The NSW Government has introduced a bill to legally recognise the intended parents of children born through altruistic surrogacy — including same-sex couples — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The animal welfare group, Animals Australia, says unprecedented transport of livestock to eastern states from Western Australia is cruelty on a mass scale — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A telecommunications interception organisation has been created within the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) to provide wiretapping advice to law enforcement agencies — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A US judge has granted the music industry’s request to shut down the popular LimeWire file sharing service, which had been found liable for copyright infringement — via redwolf.newsvine.com
In a victory for the free speech and privacy rights of Amazon.com customers, a federal judge ruled today that the company would not have to turn over detailed records on nearly 50 million purchases to North Carolina tax collectors — via michaelsautter.newsvine.com
One of the oldest customs of book lovers and libraries — lending out favorite titles to friends and patrons — is finally getting recognized in the electronic age, at least in one electronic book reader: Amazon has announced that it plans to allow users of its Kindle book reader to lend
electronic books to other Kindle users, based on the publisher’s discretion — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The legalisation of gay marriage is an inevitability and should be supported by Labor, according to a meeting of the party’s national Left yesterday — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, and Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers, lashed out together on Saturday at the Obama administration’s aggressive pursuit of whistle-blowers, including those responsible for the release of secret documents on the Iraq war — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Graphic accounts of torture, civilian killings and Iran’s hand in the Iraq war are detailed in hundreds of thousands of US military documents made public on the whistleblower website WikiLeaks — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Visitors have been ordered to reveal illegal pornography to customs officers in a move which has been criticised as totally confusing
and an invasion of privacy.
Justice Minister Brendan O’Connor said that illegal material must be declared on arrival, watering down recent rules that asked for all pornography to be revealed.
But he said anyone who is not sure whether they have illegal pornography should reveal it just in case. The revamped rule is outlined on arrival cards which are filled in by travellers coming to Australia — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Intersex advocacy group Organisation Intersex International (OII) Australia is calling for more support from the GLBT community support in advocating for the rights of intersex people — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Labor’s controversial ISP filter plan faces further delays as a meeting central to the policy is postponed yet again — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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