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yunju wang

Facebook hits back in spat with Australian Federal Police | The Australian - 1 views

  • reported difficulties in forcing California-based Facebook to comply with Australian police requests or court warrants and suggested the website should appoint an Australian-based liaison to give law enforcement a single point of contact.
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    Should California based company, facebook, follow the rules in Australia? Should they respond? After the teeageer killed from meeting with her facebook friend, this issue has become a back fire for facebook and australian authority.
yunju wang

Rudd continues to spend big with Google | The Australian - 0 views

  • "What we have to say as a small country like Australia is we expect our laws to be respected. Just because you base yourself in the US doesn't mean you can ignore the privacy of Australians."
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    International network, local lawsuit and regulation. The Australian Government is asked to justify the business deal with Google for it's privacy issue. Since google revealed to mistakenly capture private information from it's street scanning.
David Sams

Australian Wikileak founder's passport confiscated - 0 views

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    In what appears to be a direct warning to the Australian founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange had his passport confiscated for a period of time at Melbourne Airport (on the basis that it looked worn) and then had his bags searched, being questioned on about his 1991 criminal record for hacking offences. Wikileaks published the confidential list of sites that would form the blacklist under the Australian government's proposed net filter. Coincidence? I think not.
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    Further, Assange was interrviewed on Dateline last night and said that Wikileaks was potentially going to be investigated by the Australian Federal Police over the leak. However, the AFP aren't pursuing it since it's out of their scope. http://www.zdnet.com.au/afp-called-to-investigate-wikileaks-339303208.htm
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    Julian Assange is hassled and detained by customs entering Melbourne airport. Then a Fed pulls him over again in arrivals and questions him on an old hacking charge. Punishment for the leaking the Black List perhaps? Surely not...
Claudine Pache

Government eyes auDA regulation? - Communications - News - 0 views

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    This article introduces another 'body' called auDA the Australian domain name administrator. The article discusses a complaint from the president of the Australian Web Site Developers Association after 500 sites he had set up, and $100K later were just switched off by the auDA bases on their assessment of use. Perhaps the auDA needs its own audit and regulation over policy approval!
yunju wang

Surfing the net with global cops | The Australian - 1 views

  • The convention, which provides a standard framework for investigating and prosecuting crimes such as fraud, hacking, child pornography and copyright infringement across national borders, has been adopted by more than 45 countries including the US, Canada and Japan.
  • new laws will be needed in relation to facilitating international co-operation
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    Australian government is planning to accedeto the concil of Europe's Convention on Cybercrim, to further govern online content. several opinons appeared, one is saying that "age-appropriate" filtering is more effective than compelling ISPs to provide access to stored electronic communications for foreign law enforcement pruposes.
David Sams

Facebook | Open Internet for Australia: On folly, freedom and filters - 1 views

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    EFA Board Member, Stephen Collins, spoke yesterday at an event at Parliament House hosted by the Menzies Research Centre in a debate with Tony McLellan of the Australian Christian Lobby. The audience was primarily members of the Australian Liberal Students Federation; young Liberals destined for jobs as political staffers and politicians.
Tamsin Lloyd

Australian Defamation Laws and the Internet - 0 views

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    Australian defamation law and how it applies to the Internet
Qi Li

Australian law about censorship - 1 views

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    This is the Australian law paper with respect to censorship. It introduces the censorship procedure, including responsible institutions. This paper also present the previous legistative scheme and improved one. This paper is a good way to understand issues around Australian censorship.
yunju wang

New e-store for Australian books | The Australian - 1 views

  • Most of the available e-books will be free, out-of-copyright titles, according to Redgroup managing director Dave Fenlon.
  • We are all about making eBooks available no matter how customers want to read them," Mr Fenlon said.
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    It is a trend after launched of ipad in US, more than 100 local pubclishers have signed up to supply ebooks to ebook store which opereates the Borders Australia and Angus & Robertson book chains. "Most of the available e-books will be free, out-of-copyright titles, according to Redgroup managing director Dave Fenlon." when things like this happen how do we draw a line between those with copyright and those without?
Tiana Stefanic

Digital Education Revolution - Overview - 0 views

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    This is a source for one of my previous blog posts that I haven't yet bookmarked on Diigo. It outlines the Digital Education Revolution that will be implemented by the Department of Education as a response to the policy imperative of decreasing the digital divide in the younger generation of Australians.
Tiana Stefanic

ABC Radio Australia News:Stories:Australia's broadband plan - 0 views

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    The initial announcement last year about the federal government's proposal of a National Broadband Network was met with a lot of scepticism. I think that despite its flaws, the network seems quite necessary considering the inequality of access experienced by thousands of Australians due to the broad geographical scope of the country.
yunju wang

Facebook tightens privacy controls after global outrage | The Australian - 1 views

  • option of applying the same preferences to all their content, so that with one click you can decide whether to share things with just "friends" or with everyone.
  • ettings so often that keeping up with them became too much. Before the announcement, Craig Mather, a 28-year-old graduate student in Portland, Oregon, was already complaining of having to adjust his privacy settings every time Facebook comes up with a new plan.
  • It's a reflection of who you are online.
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  • lifeblood is advertising.
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    Under sever fire of privacy, Facebook is now tighten their privay policy to ease the fire. The thing is, when it comes to people, it's not that easy to solve. It's no longer a website that JUST allowing users exchage their status and connected to each other, but with more and more apps, people have the feeling that they are being spied on whenever wherever.
Qi Li

Australia makes Google's top 10 censorship list - 0 views

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    Australian government ask googel to hand over user data. Google has for the first time released information about the number of such requests that it gets from countries around the world.Top of the list is Brazil, followed by Germany, the United States and India.
Qi Li

Online censorship 'heavy-handed': Google - 1 views

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    Two of the world's leading providers of online services Google and Yahoo have criticised the federal government's plan to censor internet content as heavy handed. The Australian government are now trying to enhance accountability and transparency of the mandatory ISPs filering schema.
Qi Li

The Great Australian Internet Blackout - 0 views

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    This is a website that discusses the reasons that the Internet filter should not be pursued. The main reasons are: 1It won't protect children. 2 The whole country will pay for this ineffective solution
Amit Kelkar

Online ombudsman for Facebook woes? | The Australian - 3 views

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    Rudd will consider Xenaphon's idea of an online ombudsman to help in some unknown way people affected by social media issues such as cyberbullying. 
Amit Kelkar

Mandatory internet service provider (ISP) filtering: Measures to increase accountabilit... - 1 views

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    Call for consultation regarding Australian government's mandatory internet filtering scheme. 
Amit Kelkar

The government will talk back to the public - 0 views

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    SMH article about the Australian government's "Gov2.0" initiative which encourages government employees to use social media more.  
Amit Kelkar

NBN study supressed | The Australian - 1 views

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    my own
David Sams

LogoCop: The protest movement against internet censorship in Australia - 1 views

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    My first blog post about my topic - "protest movements". I am specifically looking at the Australian protest movement against the Government's proposed ISP filtering legislation.
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