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Conroy the Barbarian - sinner or saint?
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| Filtering's only support has come from the likes of the Australian Christian
| Lobby and right wing Senators such as Family First's Stephen Fielding.
| Senator Conroy's refusal to define the term ''unwanted'' has done little to
| reassure those concerned that filtering could be abused by politicians
| looking to cut deals in order to get other legislation passed. The
| government's proposed list of 10,000 blacklisted websites would remain
| secret, with its backers in the senate already talking of expanding the list
| to include online gambling and legal pornography sites.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/22307/1086/
Industry baffled over clean-feed internet pilot
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| Internet Service Providers (ISPs) participating in live trials of the
| national Internet content filtering scheme say the tests will be undermined
| by a government decision to test the “clean-feed” blacklist under
| watered-down conditions.
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http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/270791/industry_baffled_over_clean-feed_internet_pilot
In Pictures: Aussies rally against against sanitised Internet
http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/270896/pictures_aussies_rally_against_against_sanitised_internet
Recent:
BT silences customers over Phorm
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| BT has banned all future discussion of Phorm and its "WebWise" targeted
| advertising product on its customer forums, and deleted all past threads
| about the controversy dating back to February.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/19/bt_phorm_censor/
Bad Phorm: UK Police give green light to Internet spying
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| The email is quoted by El Reg and states that "it has been decided that no
| Criminal Offence has been committed" and there was a "lack of Criminal Intent
| on behalf of BT and Phorm Inc in relation to the tests."
|
| The best bit, though, is the revelation that BT customers would have given
| implied consent to being spied upon without their knowledge because the aim
| of the tests was to enhance product quality.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/20759/1054/
Police close file on BT's trials
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| The City of London Police have said there will be no formal investigation of
| BT over its secret trials of an ad monitoring system.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7634210.stm
Phorm secretly tracked Americans too
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| of British Telecom customers as part of its grand scheme to target online ads
| from inside the world's ISPs, it was "operating a number of public commercial
| services" on various stateside networks.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/13/phorm_us_tests/
Spy fear over e-mail check plan
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| Plans to give local councils and other public bodies the power to monitor
| e-mail and internet traffic have been branded a "snoopers' charter".
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| The government wants to make it mandatory for phone and internet companies to
| store all information on personal web use for 12 months.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7557963.stm
Home Office questioned over Phorm
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| Critics have asked why the Home Office has not intervened over secret Phorm
| trials BT conducted in 2006 and 2007.
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The EU has asked the UK government to clarify the situation.
Bad Phorm: EU demands UK Government response on intrusive web ad tracking
technology
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| Controversial behavioral advertising targeting outfit Phorm, whose Webwise ad
| technology monitors user browsing habits to serve appropriate advertising
| messages, might have dragged the UK Government into a slugfest with the
| European Union over a possible breach of strict Euro data laws...
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/19884/1054/
Controversial Ad Network Caught Editing Wikipedia
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| Phorm has been beset by controversy for years over its business model and
| quietly-run trials on British Telecom's (BT) broadband service.
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http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/04/08/controversial-ad-network-caught-editing-wikipedia
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