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[News] On-line summit
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- Subject: [News] On-line summit
- From: Rigo Wenning <wenning2@rz.uni-sb.de>
- Date: Fri, 05 Dec 1997 16:39:24 +0100
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Noch neues an der Rating - Front
>Date: Thu, 04 Dec 1997 17:15:29 +0100
>From: Meryem Marzouki <meryem.marzouki@dial.oleane.com>
>Subject: [News] On-line summit
>To: gilc-plan@gilc.org
>Reply-To: gilc-plan@gilc.org
>
>Some more news items on the on-line summit :
>
>> Filtering and rating
>>
>> * A Game of Hide vs. Seek - There's No Consensus About Systems for
>> Rating Internet Sites (Washington Post) When it comes to
>> protecting children in cyberspace, the online industry loves to
>> chat up software products such as Net Nanny, SurfWatch and Cyber
>> Patrol, which attempt to restrict access to adult-oriented
>> material. Major Internet service providers have agreed to begin
>> offering the software to subscribers for free or at a nominal
>> cost. This week, the online industry, seeking to avert new
>> regulation of Internet content, said it would mount a broad
>> public-education campaign to encourage parents to use the
>> technology. But mention the rating of Internet sites, which many
>> people see as the next step in keeping the global network
>> child-friendly, and the consensus vanishes.
>>
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1997-12/03/097l-120397-idx.htm
>>
>> * USA - Electronic Privacy Information Center tests filtering
>> search engine (EPIC) EPIC conducted 100 searches using a
>> traditional search engine and then conducted the same 100
>> searches using a new search engine that is advertised as the
>> "world's first family-friendly Internet search site." In every
>> case in our sample, we found that the family-friendly search
>> engine prevented us from obtaining access to almost 90 percent of
>> the materials on the Internet containing the relevant search
>> terms. We concluded that the filtering mechanism prevented
>> children from obtaining a great deal of useful and appropriate
>> information that is currently available on the Internet.
>> http://www2.epic.org/reports/filter_report.html
>>
>> Internet Online Summit: Focus on Children
>>
>> * USA - Attorney-General favours government and industry
>> co-operation (News.com) Attorney General Janet Reno today praised
>> private sector plans to protect children using the Internet from
>> predators and promised more measures by law enforcement agencies.
>> Companies doing business on the Internet this week pledged to
>> work closely with law enforcement in tracking down and reporting
>> predators and child pornographers. They sponsored a toll-free
>> number for Internet users to report suspicious activity. (See
>> related story)
>> http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,16992,00.html?dtn.head
>>
>> * USA - Advocates Want Funds Tied To Filters (TechWeb) As industry
>> participants in this weekis Internet Online Summit: Focus on
>> Children go home with self-regulation proposals in hand,
>> conservative groups concerned about childrenis online safety are
>> still looking to government for regulation.
>> http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19971203S0022
>>
>> * USA - AOL Plays Anti-Pedophile Strategy Close to Vest (News.com)
>> At the Internet summit on children and the Net in Washington on
>> Monday, America Online joined a chorus of content providers and
>> ISPs in promising to work more closely with law-enforcement
>> officials to track pedophiles online. Details of how AOL is
>> planning to more closely monitor illegal activity on its own
>> system or cooperate with police, however, were not forthcoming.
>> (The rest of the interview does in fact provide considerable
>> information on AOL's cooperation with police in training and the
>> extent of its monitoring)
>> http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/8909.html
>>
>> * USA - No easy answers (ZD News) If society is ever to gain the
>> upper hand against online sexual predators, youngsters need to
>> apply the same common-sense rules they live by to their
>> experiences in cyber space, according to participants in a
>> roundtable discussion on Internet safety.
>> http://headlines.yahoo.com/zdnews/stories/881166923.html
>>
>> * Online Kid's Summit In Full Swing (Inter@ctive Week) Monday was
>> supposed to be the "day before" the White House-backed Internet
>> Online Summit on children and cyberspace, but the debate on how
>> best to protect children from the evil side of the Web was in
>> full swing yesterday.
>> http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/daily/971202a.html
>>
>> * What You Should Do Right Now to Protect Kids on the Internet
>> (ZDNet AnchorDesk) Everybody as their knickers in a knot over the
>> Kids' Internet Online Summit underway in Washington, D.C.
>> http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/story/story_1510.html
>>
>> * Net Shepherd Offers Internet Ratings Through Internet Explorer
>> (real.Content) Net Shepherd Tuesday announced the availability of
>> its World Opinion's Service of Internet content ratings, a large
>> database of Internet content ratings. The service is currently
>> being offered to users of Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer
>> (IE). http://real.NewsHub.com/1297/02_04.htm
>
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