The Pentagon urged news organizations on Monday not to publish classified US documents due to be released by WikiLeaks as US officials brace for a mass disclosure of leaked Iraq war files by the whistleblower website — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A mother on the New South Wales south coast has been sentenced to two and a half years in jail for forcing her under-aged daughter to work as a prostitute — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Popular mobile phone applications are sharing sensitive information about users, including their location, with advertising companies, a study has found — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The founder of the Wikileaks website, Julian Assange, has been denied residency in Sweden — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Independent Tasmanian MP Andrew Wilkie has introduced the first private member’s bill of the new Parliament – legislation to toughen protections for whistleblowers and journalists — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Mobile carriers would be forced to notify customers before slugging them with excess usage fees and other extra charges under tough new rules being considered by the Australian government and regulators.
The US communications regulator, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), has proposed new laws aimed at dramatically reducing “bill shock”. These have been supported by Australian regulators but the mobile industry is already fighting back against any extra regulations — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A site run by the MPAA has become the most recent victim of cyber attacks being carried out by Anonymous. CopyProtected.com, a site used to inform on copy protection and DRM on DVD and Blu-ray movie discs, now displays a missive from the anarchic group. After a few seconds it redirects visitors to the homepage of The Pirate Bay — via redwolf.newsvine.com
THE steadily increasing power of Australia’s domestic spy agency is set to continue, with legislative amendments to give ASIO the power to run the wiretaps of more than a dozen domestic law enforcement agencies — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The whistleblowing group WikiLeaks claims that it has had its funding blocked and that it is the victim of financial warfare by the US government.
Moneybookers, a British-registered internet payment company that collects WikiLeaks donations, emailed the organisation to say it had closed down its account because it had been put on an official US watchlist and on an Australian government blacklist — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A court in Mozambique has sentenced two men to 20 years in prison for mutilating a 12-year-old boy in order to sell his body parts to a witchdoctor in Malawi.
The court heard that the boy’s uncle and another man lured the boy to come bush-rat hunting with them by offering him biscuits.
In the attack, one of the men covered the youth’s mouth while the other hit him on the chest with a rock. They then cut off the boy’s testicles, penis and eyes and left him for dead — via richardfarner.newsvine.com
A group of former senior communist officials in China has written an open letter calling for an end to censorship, just days before a key party meeting that is expected to shape policy over the next few years — via redwolf.newsvine.com
We also have a review of one of the most controversial parts of the filter proposal – that of the scope of refused classification (RC). It definitely needs a review, because frankly, RC is broken, and apparently, misunderstood by both the responsible Minister in Senator Conroy and the Prime Minister herself, who just yesterday confirmed the Government’s ongoing commitment to the filter, saying it was a “moral question” to ensure the filter came to be.
I’m sorry, Prime Minister, but since when, in this day and age, is the Government the arbiter of what I, or any other member of Australian society, should consider moral? Please get off my lawn!
The only moral question here is whether Australia, as a society is mature enough to ensure we maintain adequate civil liberties and in the case of what we and our kids view on the internet, whether we are mature enough as people and parents — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A District Court jury in far north Queensland has found a Cairns couple accused of procuring an illegal abortion not guilty — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Europe’s Nordic countries remain global leaders in the campaign to close the gender equality gap, according to a study released Tuesday that said women could play a key role in leading the world out of economic crisis.
Iceland, Norway and Finland topped the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual gender gap index, while Pakistan, Chad and Yemen were bottom of the 134-nation rankings.
Australia has dropped three places since last year to come in at 23rd behind Mozambique — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A Tasmanian pensioner is taking on Telstra after becoming frustrated once too often with its technology — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The High Court in Ireland has ruled that laws cutting off internet users who have illegally downloaded content cannot be enforced in the country.
It is a victory for Irish internet service provider UPC which took the legal action against copyright owners, including EMI and Sony.
But it will be a blow to the music and film industry, which wants the strict rules as a deterrent against piracy.
It is likely to have a knock-on effect to similar policies in other countries — via richardfarner.newsvine.com
Newspapers always publish their readers’ letters with the writer’s name and address appended there for everyone to read (Or at least they do secure in the knowledge that those vital facts have been supplied).
Newspaper websites are rather different, though. Here you may find the odd contributed comment deleted by the anonymous hand of the moderator, but mostly the vitriol flows free. There is “uncivil behaviour” by the bucketload; screens heaving with what Reuters calls “repetition, [issues of] taste, legal risk or political bias”.
No longer on Reuters.com, however, where new rules now rule out all of the above. Perhaps not much longer on major sites in the United States, either, where the swing against anonymity grows stronger by the month — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A hospital has reassured patients after being forced to apologise to two pregnant women who were wrongly told their unborn babies were dead — via redwolf.newsvine.com
On tuesday october 5th, Mexican Senate took the first step to take Mexico out of ACTA by voting through a non-binding point of agreement that makes a strong call to reject any type of international policy fabricated behind closed doors, at least in Mexico — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A near-final version of the international Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) released this week won praise from organizations representing copyright holders and some sighs of relief from groups that had opposed proposals in earlier drafts.
Still, concerns about the copyright-enforcement trade pact remain, said some groups critical of language in earlier, leaked versions of ACTA. The proposed trade agreement has been improved, with Internet service providers no longer on the hook for the copyright infringement of their customers, said the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA), a tech trade group — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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