[eccr] QuickLinks 248 - 27 October 2002

QuickLinks 248 - 27 October 2002

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Legal and regulatory issues

   Audiovisual
1. FR - La TNT en chantant

   Computer crime
2. Bush Backs New Online Protections for Children
3. CH - Ansprache Bundesrätin Ruth Metzler-Arnold
4. CH - Experts meet to combat child porn
5. CH - La Interpol reúne a cien expertos en la lucha contra la
pornografía infantil en Internet
6. ES - Desmentelada Red en Internet que distribuía desde España
fotografías de menores
7. ES - España, refugio de la pedofilia digital
8. EU - Council Framework Decision of 13 June 2002 on the European
arrest warrant
9. EU - Framework programme on police and judicial cooperation in
criminal matters (AGIS)
10. UK - Child porn swoop nets 90 police

   Content regulation
11. UK - Tobacco Advert Ban Passed by Parliament
12. UK - Watchdog clamps down on net porn

   Electronic commerce
13. ES - Entra en vigor la LSSICE

   Information society and Internet policy
14. US - Politics of high-tech pork

   Interception
15. EU - Retention of telecommunication traffic data

   Junk mail (spam)
16. There's a lot of it about
17. US - Direct marketers endorse anti-spam laws
18. US - WA - Spammer must pay $98,000

   Liability, jurisdiction and applicable law
19. Commerce électronique : loi applicable et juridiction compétente
(une synthèse)
20. DE - Berliner Polizei will missliebiges Plakat aus dem Internet
tilgen
21. UK - Internet providers say no to Blunkett

   Mobile and wireless
22. Das Mobiltelefon zwischen Flirt, Porno und Aufklärung

   Protection of minors
23. FR - TV porn a steamy topic

   Racism and xenophobia
24. AU - Internet race hate laws 'incoherent'
25. DE - Die Exil-Provider
26. French and German Google exclude racist sites from seach results

   Safer Internet awareness
27. AOL launches safety campaign with automated messaging buddy
28. CA - Girl Guides to guide girls on-line

   Security and encryption
29. Survey: Digital security

Market & Technology

   Market
30. DE - Bertelsmann sagt Internet-Buchhandel offiziell ade

   Security and encryption
31. Researchers predict worm that eats the Internet in 15 minutes
32. Root Servers Bounce Back From E-Attack

   Statistics
33. JN - Young lured by Net dating, child porn
34. UK - A third of dial-up users want broadband

Forthcoming events

35. 2002-11-12 EU, Brussels - Forum: Notice & Takedown in Europe

1. FR - La TNT en chantant (Libération)
Le CSA a tranché. Il y aura 33 chaînes de télévision numérique
terrestre, dont 16 gratuites et plusieurs musicales. Le voilà enfin
le PAF de demain, dévoilé par le Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel
(CSA) au bout de quatre mois de réflexion : 33 chaînes, dont 16
gratuites et plusieurs chantantes. Sur les cinq chaînes non payantes
annoncées, ­ les 11 autres sont des reprises des chaînes existantes
et­ deux et demi sont en effet consacrées à la musique : M6 Music,
iMCM et NRJ TV (dont la musique représente 50 % du temps de
diffusion).
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14685.htm

2. Bush Backs New Online Protections for Children (Washington Post)
President Bush called for an increase in federal funding and new
legislation to combat online predators who stalk children in
cyberspace in hopes of sexually molesting them. Bush listened to
experts speak at the White House about child pornography and its
spread on the Internet. He proposed increases in spending to combat
child molesters who find their victims online and urged the Senate to
join the House in passing legislation overturning a Supreme Court
decision that struck down a ban of computer simulations of child
pornography. see also  US - Increasing Online Safety for America's
Children (Press Release)  and Remarks by the President.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14673.htm

3. CH - Ansprache Bundesrätin Ruth Metzler-Arnold (Eidgenössisches
Justiz- und Polizeidepartement)
Tagung der "Interpol Spezialistengruppe Verbrechen gegen Kinder" 22.
Oktober 2002, in Thun.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14692.htm

4. CH - Experts meet to combat child porn (Reuters)
An international conference of police and criminologists aims to
fight the rising tide of Web-based child pornography Police and
criminologists from 34 countries have begun a three-day meeting in
Switzerland aimed at combating crime against children, especially
pornography on the Internet.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14689.htm

5. CH - La Interpol reúne a cien expertos en la lucha contra la
pornografía infantil en Internet (Libertad Digital)
Comienza en Thoune (Suiza) un congreso de la Interpol destinado a
fomentar el intercambio de informaciones relativas a la lucha contra
la pornografía infantil en Internet. El encuentro dura tres días y
participan unos cien especialistas de diversos países.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14691.htm

6. ES - Desmentelada Red en Internet que distribuía desde España
fotografías de menores (Delitos informáticos)
Ha sido desmantelada, por la la Guardia Civil, una red internacional
que distribuía desde España fotografías de menores de 13 años
practicando diversos actos sexuales, en la operación denominada
"Mackxer".
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14690.htm

7. ES - España, refugio de la pedofilia digital (El País)
España se ha convertido en el mejor escondite ciberespacial europeo
para las bandas de pedófilos que se mueven por la Red. Así lo revela
un reciente informe de la Asociación Contra la Pornografía Infantil
(ACPI), una ONG que se ha ganado el reconocimiento de la Brigada de
Delitos Tecnológicos de la Policía y de la Unidad de Delitos
Telemáticos de la Guardia Civil y que es la pionera en España en la
lucha contra la pedofilia. ver tambien ABC.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14708.htm

8. EU - Council Framework Decision of 13 June 2002 on the European
arrest warrant (EUR-Lex)
2002/584/JHA. Offences which give rise to surrender pursuant to a
European arrest warrant include sexual exploitation of children and
child pornography, computer-related crime, racism and xenophobia.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14694.htm

9. EU - Framework programme on police and judicial cooperation in
criminal matters (AGIS) (EUR-Lex)
Council Decision of 22 July 2002. 2002/630/JHA Official Journal L
203 , 01/08/2002 P. 5 - 8. Programme runs for the period 2003 to 2007
with a budget of EUR 65 million.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14707.htm

10. UK - Child porn swoop nets 90 police (Observer)
Hundreds of child welfare professionals, including police officers,
care workers and teachers, have been identified as 'extremely high-
risk' paedophiles by an investigation into internet porn. The
discovery came after US authorities passed on more than 7,000 names
of UK subscribers to an American-based child porn website. When
police examined a sample of the most dedicated users, they discovered
that many worked with children.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14700.htm

11. UK - Tobacco Advert Ban Passed by Parliament (Reuters)
Legislation to ban tobacco advertising in Britain cleared its last
parliamentary hurdle and is set to become law. The House of Commons
passed the bill, which has been crawling through parliament for more
than a year, late in the evening after an amendment was voted down.
The bill now goes for Royal assent before becoming law. The
legislation will ban press, billboard and internet advertising of
tobacco products and will prohibit the promotion of smoking through
free distribution of tobacco products, coupons and mailshots.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14681.htm

12. UK - Watchdog clamps down on net porn (BBC)
Two companies have been heavily fined and reported to police for
promoting pornographic material involving children on the internet.
Premium rate service regulator ICSTIS has barred two online sexual
entertainment service providers, Spanish-based Greenock and German-
based Premium Call GmbH. ICSTIS (Indepedent Committee for the
Supervision of Telephone Information Services) imposed fines of
£75,000 and £50,000 respectively and reported the cases to the
British National Hi-Tech Crime Unit. Both companies used promotional
material which repeatedly referred to sexual acts involving children.
The software used to access the websites at a premium rate of £1.50
per minute downloaded automatically without users' knowledge. It was
deliberately designed to mislead users into running up huge phone
bills.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14688.htm

13. ES - Entra en vigor la LSSICE (El País)
El 12 de octubre de 2002 entra en vigor la Ley de Servicios de la
Sociedad de la Información y de Comercio Electrónico (LSSICE), un
texto legal preparado por el ejecutivo de José María Aznar para
"generar la confianza necesaria" en el empleo de los nuevos medios
telemáticos. La LSSICE es la transposición a la legislación española
de una directiva europea, la 2000/31/CE, sobre comercio electrónico y
afecta a todos los sitios de Internet que ejercen algún tipo de
actividad económica desde el territorio español.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14698.htm

14. US - Politics of high-tech pork (News.com)
A report that will be released this week by the hard-working policy
mavens at the Cato Institute, called "Birth of the Digital New Deal,"
contains the first comprehensive survey of the fast-growing area of
technology pork.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14704.htm

15. EU - Retention of telecommunication traffic data (FIPR)
Statement of the European Data Protection Commissioners at the
International Conference in Cardiff (9-11 September 2002) on
mandatory systematic retention of telecommunication traffic data.
PDF. see also  Danish Presidency's questionnaire on traffic data
retention (Consilium) and EU Member States' answers to the
questionnaire (Unofficial publication of a room document).
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14676.htm

16. There's a lot of it about (Guardian)
"Spam" emails, as they are called, have reached such a high level
that researchers at IT business research firm Gartner revealed that
their clients are reporting that between a third and a half of emails
are spam. They calculate that spam traffic increased five-fold in
2001. The EU's data protection directive will tighten rules, ensuring
that a company sending out mass emails must prove the recipient has
given "explicit" permission to "opt-in" to receive offers before they
are sent, and all messages must clearly state who they are from and
allow a person to reply directly so they can be removed from the list.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14703.htm

17. US - Direct marketers endorse anti-spam laws (ZDNet News)
The Direct Marketing Association said that unsolicited e-mail has
become so noxious that a federal anti-spam law is finally necessary.
Until now, the DMA has opposed the majority of anti-spam bills in
Congress or offered only lukewarm support. But the ever-rising tide
of junk e-mail has made the influential trade association rethink its
stand. The DMA told the Senate Commerce committee in April 2001 that
a law governing spam might not be objectionable if it overruled about
20 state laws currently on the books and prohibited only "the
practice of sending fraudulent electronic mail messages" with forged
headers. Now the association says it will lobby for legislation that
has both of those requirements and also provides a way for recipients
to remove themselves from future mailings. But a federal requirement
that consumers "opt in" instead of "opt out" of bulk e-mail is
unacceptable. "
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14684.htm

18. US - WA - Spammer must pay $98,000 (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
A prolific e-mailer was ordered yesterday to pay more than $98,000
for flooding computers several years ago with dubious offers to make
money through the Internet. A Washington State judge found that Jason
Heckel of Salem, Ore., violated the state's law against sending
misleading and unsolicited commercial e-mail that could not be
traced. The judge fined the 28-year-old Heckel the maximum penalty,
$2,000, for one violation of the rule. The rest of the penalty is for
state's attorneys' fees and court costs. The total is $98,197.74.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14702.htm

19. Commerce électronique : loi applicable et juridiction compétente
(une synthèse) (Droit et Nouvelles Technologies)
Auteur: Thibault Verbiest. Si un contrat est conclu via l'internet
ou un autre réseau entre des personnes établies dans des Etats
différents, et qu'un litige survient entre elles, la partie qui
entend engager des poursuites judiciaires devra en premier lieu
identifier le tribunal compétent pour connaître de l'affaire, et
ensuite la loi qui régira le litige.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14701.htm

20. DE - Berliner Polizei will missliebiges Plakat aus dem Internet
tilgen (Heise)
Die Berliner Polizei erweist sich nicht nur als humorlos, sondern
auch als recht hartnäckig: Nachdem sie über die Androhung der Website-
Sperrung bei der so genannten Antifaschistischen Aktion Berlin (AAB)
erwirkt hatte, dass ein Plakat der Gruppe nicht mehr im Internet
veröffentlicht wird, wiederholte sie diese Prozedur jetzt gegenüber
den Betreibern von Linkeseite.de und anderer Mirror-Sites.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14695.htm

21. UK - Internet providers say no to Blunkett (Guardian)
Internet service providers have told the Home Office that they will
not voluntarily stockpile the personal records of their customers for
long periods so that they can be accessed by police or intelligence
officers. There is concern among web companies over the privacy and
cost implications of retaining subscriber information.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14699.htm

22. Das Mobiltelefon zwischen Flirt, Porno und Aufklärung (Heise)
Es vibriert. Es ist nah am Körper. Es kann die Stimme des Partners
übertragen. Klarer Fall, im Vergleich zum schnöden Computer ist das
Mobiltelefon einfach die intimere Maschine. Jetzt bemühen sich
einigen Firmen, daraus Kapital zu schlagen - und bescheren uns damit
interessante Ausblicke auf das zukünftige Liebesleben der mobilen
Gesellschaft.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14675.htm

23. FR - TV porn a steamy topic (News 24)
Ninety-six right-wing deputies in France have signed an anti-porn
bill, saying that such a move is necessary to bring France into line
with a European directive meant to protect children from harmful
television programming. In a letter to France's CSA broadcasting
regulator the EU Culture and Education Commissioner Viviane Reding
said that she believed France was already fulfilling its
responsibilities under the Television Without Borders legislation
protecting minors. She said the French parliament was free to come up
with tougher measures if it wanted, but noted that the EU directive
was intended to implement a more general code of conduct that a
crackdown on pornography specifically.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14686.htm

24. AU - Internet race hate laws 'incoherent' (Australian IT)
Australia laws covering race hate on the internet need to be more
coherent, according to our human rights watchdog. The Human Rights
and Equal Opportunity Commission said there were inconsistencies
between the content classification regime, which governs the internet
in Australia, and the racial discrimination act. The commission
hosted a symposium on cyber racism with representatives from
government regulatory bodies, the IT industry, legal experts, and
community groups.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14682.htm

25. DE - Die Exil-Provider (Tagesspiegel)
Immer mehr deutsche Neonazis profitieren im Internet davon, das in
den USA Meinungsdelikte nicht verfolgt werden
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14674.htm

26. French and German Google exclude racist sites from seach results
(Harvard Law School)
by Jonathan Zittrain and Benjamin Edelman - Berkman Center for
Internet & Society. The authors are currently seeking to document
differences between results generated at google.com and those at
google.fr and google.de, Google's counterparts intended for French
and German audiences. They have found some 113 sites excluded, in
whole or in part, from the French google.fr and German google.de.
Many such sites seem to offer Neo-Nazi, white supremacy, or other
content objectionable or illegal in France and Germany.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14680.htm

27. AOL launches safety campaign with automated messaging buddy (AP)
America Online is launching a new Internet-safety campaign for kids
built around an automated instant-messaging "buddy" that dispenses
advice in real time.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14683.htm

28. CA - Girl Guides to guide girls on-line (Globe and Mail)
The Girl Guides of Canada and the Media Awareness Network have
launched You Go Girl In Technology, a new national Internet literacy
project aimed at helping Canadian girls learn to be safe, wise and
responsible Internet users.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14709.htm

29. Survey: Digital security (Economist)
Digital security, once the province of geeks, is now everyone's
concern. But there is much more to the problem - or the solution -
than mere technology.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14672.htm

30. DE - Bertelsmann sagt Internet-Buchhandel offiziell ade (Heise)
Der Medienkonzern Bertelsmann zieht einen Schlussstrich unter sein
Engagement im Internet-Buchhandel: Zum Jahresende wird die deutsche
BOL-Gesellschaft, in der das Gütersloher Unternehmen sein Buch- und
Musikclubgeschäft mit dem Online-Handel zusammengefasst und unter der
Marke BOL Bücher, CDs und Spiele über das Internet verkauft hatte,
endgültig aufgelöst.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14696.htm

31. Researchers predict worm that eats the Internet in 15 minutes
(Network World Fusion)
Computer science researchers are predicting new types of dangerous
worms that would be able to infect Web servers, browsers and other
software so quickly that the working Internet itself could be taken
over in a matter of minutes. Though still in the realm of theory, the
killer worms described in a research paper entitled How to Own the
Internet in Your Spare Time are triggering some skepticism but the
idea of them is seldom dismissed as outlandish science fiction.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14677.htm

32. Root Servers Bounce Back From E-Attack (Wired)
An unusually powerful electronic attack briefly crippled nine of the
13 root servers that manage global Internet traffic this week. But
most Internet users didn't notice because the attack only lasted one
hour. See also Attack on heart of Internet fails to bring it down
(CNN) The attempt to bring down the heart of the Internet this week
sounded ominous. But experts say the attack was neither the most
efficient nor likely way to inflict pain on the average Web surfer.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14697.htm

33. JN - Young lured by Net dating, child porn (Japan Times)
People in the 15 to 29 age bracket are the most likely members of
Japanese society to use Internet dating sites and to view child
pornography, according to the results of a Cabinet Office survey.
Easy mobile phone access and the guarantee of user anonymity have
combined to make Internet dating sites popular in Japan. But Net-
related crimes have also spiraled, with some users -- especially
women -- subjected to rape, extortion, robbery and even murder.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14687.htm

34. UK - A third of dial-up users want broadband (NUA)
A new Oftel study indicates that one-third of dial-up Internet users
in the UK are interested in upgrading to broadband services.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14678.htm

35. 2002-11-12 EU, Brussels - Forum: Notice & Takedown in Europe
(RightsWatch)
The Second RightsWatch Forum will be held on 12 November 2002 at the
Dorint Hotel, Boulevard Charlemagne 11-19, B-1000 Brussels.
RightsWatch is a research project aiming at developing consensus and
promoting awareness of self-regulatory notice and takedown (NTD)
procedures for Europe, as a tool to achieve prompt removal of
copyright-infringing material from the Internet.  The project is
funded under the European Commission's Information Society Technology
("IST") programme. Online registration.
http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem14705.htm

Main Sources and Contributors:
Baker & McKenzie E-Law Alert, Michael Geist BNA - ILN,
cybertelecom.org, jugendschutz.net, Gerhard Heine.

QuickLinks
Links to news items about legal and regulatory aspects of Internet
and the information society, particularly those relating to
information content, and market and technology.


QuickLinks is edited by Richard Swetenham
(richard.swetenham /at/ cec.eu.int)



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