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Tue Dec 15 10:50:25 PST 2009

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GAO to FCC: Wireless users need more protection, CNET
Government Accountability Office says Thursday that the FCC needs to do more to protect subscribers who are dissatisfied with their service.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30686_3-10413543-266.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=News-PoliticsandLaw
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadand/wireless.htm

Broadband networks supporting innovation, OECD
New innovations such as smart electrical grids, tele-medicine, intelligent transportation networks, interactive learning and cloud computing will require fast communication networks to operate efficiently. Government investment in new fibre networks could be justified based on just small direct benefits in just four key sectors of the
http://www.oecd.org/department/0,3355,en_2649_34223_1_1_1_1_1,00.html?rssChId=34223#44247376
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/

GAO: FCC Fails To Protect Wireless Consumers - As high prices and billing complaints top user frustrations, dslreports
According to a new study (pdf) by The General Accounting Office, the FCC doesn't do enough to follow up on consumer complaints about wireless service, consistently fails to protect consumers from anti-competitive behavior by wireless carriers, and needs to do a better job enforcing consumer protection rules&#46 While the report does
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/GAO-FCC-Fails-To-Protect-Wireless-Consumers-105922
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/wireless.htm

GAO to FCC: Stop Ignoring Wireless Consumer Complaints, Ecommerce Times
Federal regulators receive tens of thousands of customer complaints about wireless services every year, but don't do enough to follow up or protect consumers who have problems with their mobile carriers, government auditors found. In a report released Thursday, the Government Accountability Office said the Federal Communications Commission needs to ramp up
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/rsstory/68882.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/broadband/wireless.htm

Would Your Child Tell You If He/She Was Being Bullied?, Family and Child Safety Blog
I think there are two main reasons why teens are secretive about what they do online. First, teens need a sense of privacy.
http://blog.safetyclicks.com/2009/12/11/would-your-child-tell-you-if-he-she-was-being-bullied/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/child.htm

LG Has a Fresh Take on Cellphone Responsibility, Internet Safety
LG has taken a fresh approach to cyberbullying and other cell-related dangers by infusing some much needed humor into the discussion. And James Lipton is pretty much always a winner as a chic cultural landmark. For the full slate of videos, visit youtube.com/GiveItaPonder.
http://blog.internetsafety.com/2009/12/14/lg-has-a-fresh-take-on-cellphone-responsibility/
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/child.htm

New studies find censorship rising, Google
Last week, Dr. Ron Deibert, Director of the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto, came to the Googleplex in Mountain View to give a presentation on the Open Internet Initiative's recent studies on the policies and technologies that repressive governments are using to censor Internet content.
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GooglePublicPolicyBlog/~3/YHT09UC6o1Y/new-studies-find-censorship-rising.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/firsta.htm

FTC's milestone report on virtual worlds, Net Family News
This is pioneering stuff on the part of the US government. The Federal Trade Commission today sent to Congress its close study of 27 online virtual worlds – 14 for children under 13 and 13 aimed at teens and adults – looking at the level of sexually explicit and violent content and what the VWs were doing to protect children from it. I think it's important for parents to keep in mind when reading the study or just the highlights here that "content" in virtual worlds
http://www.netfamilynews.org/2009/12/ftcs-milestone-report-on-virtual-worlds.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/virtual.htm

Feds Cite Child Safety Hazards on Virtual Worlds, Internet News
Agency releases report detailing shortcomings in online child safety mechanisms
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/38whr7Um69U/3852916
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/virtual.htm

FTC drags out old, tired ideas for protecting kids online, Ars Technica
The Federal Trade Commission is always on the lookout for what could be improved "for the children!" and a recent report highlights the newest areas of concern: virtual worlds. In its report released Thursday, the FTC announced the downright shocking news that there is sexually explicit and
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/12/ftc-drags-out-old-tired-ideas-for-protecting-kids-online.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/virtual.htm

ACLU: Setting the Record Straight on Net Neutrality, Save the Internet
The cable industry is saying that Network Neutrality would violate the First Amendment because it would prohibit them from “expressing themselves” by distorting the flow of information over the Internet wires they control.
http://www.savetheinternet.com/blog/09/12/14/aclu-setting-record-straight-net-neutrality
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ci/neutral.htm

Broadband penetration still lags in U.S., CW
The United States still lags behind several developed countries in broadband penetration despite experiencing solid growth over the past year, according to new data released by the Organization for Economic Development and Cooperation.
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9142159/Broadband_penetration_still_lags_in_U.S.?source=rss_news
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/data/broadband.htm

iPod Touches in the classroom, Net Family News
The Salisbury Post tells the story of how a school district in North Carolina got its start with mobile devices in the classroom – in this case, iPod Touches narrower than "a deck of cards," weighing a little over 4 ounces, and putting "the complete works of Shakespeare, movies, a dictionary, thesaurus and encyclopedia, SAT preparation
http://www.netfamilynews.org/2009/12/ipod-touches-in-classroom.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/education.htm

'Lost' Bush e-mail settlement requires that White House reveal IT practices, CW
The White House has settled lawsuits from advocacy groups over millions of missing e-mails, the legacy of what may have been one of messiest e-mail platform migrations ever.
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9142268/_Lost_Bush_e_mail_settlement_requires_that_White_House_reveal_IT_practices_?source=rss_news
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/egov/

Verizon Kindly Forgives Kid's $21,917 3G Bandwidth Bill - What, you don't think $20k for 1.4GB of data use is fair?, dslreports
We were starting to wonder why we'd gone a whole month without someone having to take out a second mortgage to pay their wireless broadband bill. Not to disappoint, the UPI notes how a 13-year-old boy racked up a $21,917 Verizon Wireless bill. How? The kid downloaded 1.4 million kilobytes (just 1.4GB) of data last month on his father's
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Verizon-Kindly-Forgives-Kids-21917-3G-Bandwidth-Bill-105978
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/industry/verizon.htm

Latest Bogus DMCA Takedown Award Winner: Yahoo!, EFF
"Yahoo isn’t happy that a detailed menu of the spying services it provides law enforcement agencies has leaked onto the web." That's how WIRED's Threat Level blog put it when describing Yahoo's recent effort to censor its own law enforcement compliance guide off the Internet using a bogus DMCA takedown demand.
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/12/todays-bogus-dmca-takedown-award-winner-yahoo
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/ip/dmca.htm

Man Bites Dog: Prosecutor Pays a Price for Chasing Commenters, Citizen's Media
Unfortunately, it's become an increasingly common occurrence: a public official, outraged over something posted about him/her anonymously on the Internet, asks a court to issue a subpoena to find out the identity of the poster(s). The Legal Threats Database contains a number of examples, and the "Legal Protections for Anonymous Speech" section of the Legal Guide lays out the legal analyses that courts have used to evaluate these subpoenas.
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CitizenMediaLawProject/~3/ck_I-K7nw4U/man-bites-dog-prosecutor-pays-price-chasing-commenters
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/newmedia.htm

Isn't It Ironic? The Fourth Estate's Assault on Free Speech, Center for Internet and Society
It’s nothing new for media organizations to employ lofty rhetoric about the role of the press in democracy to advocate special legal privileges. Likewise, it’s nothing new for content creators to try to limit the speech rights of others in order to garner more profit. What is fairly new, however, is for the press to use language about the importance of the
http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/node/6377
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/news.htm

Media Shield Law Moves Forward in Senate, EPIC
The Free Flow of Information Act of 2009 was passed by the Senate Judiciary Committee with a vote of 14-5 and has been sent to the full Senate for a vote. The bill will make it more difficult to compel journalists to disclose information, including the identities of their sources, by requiring the government or other party requesting disclosure
http://epic.org/2009/12/media-shield-law-moves-forward.html
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/media/news.htm

FCC Official Blasts Social Media 'Smear Campaign', Internet News
Mark Lloyd recounts the online attacks that brought him hate mail and death threats as he looks ahead to the future of media.
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/aXNDb1B6QYo/3853271
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/fcc.htm

Online Commenter Did Not Waive Right to Anonymity by Agreeing to News Website's Privacy Policy -- Sedersten v. Taylor, Tech & Marketing Law
Sedersten v. Taylor, 2009 U.S. Dist LEXIS 114525 (Case No. 09-3031-CV-S-GAF) (W.D. Mo. Dec. 9. 2009). A
http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2009/12/online_commente.htm
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/privacy/anonymity.htm

FBI Releases Warning about Scareware, US CERT
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http://www.us-cert.gov/current/index.html#fbi_releases_warning_about_scareware
More Info: http://www.cybertelecom.org/security/vulnerable.htm

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