Internet Law & Policy

Criminal Conduct Involving The Net

  • The Electronic Frontier: The Challenge Of Unlawful Conduct Involving The Use Of The Internet:  A Report of the President's Working Group on Unlawful Conduct on the Internet (A report by the US Department of Justice.)

  • Cybercrime Solution Has Bugs http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,36047,00.html

  • "Crime in Cyberspace" First Draft of International Convention Released for Public Discussion http://conventions.coe.int/treaty/en/projets/cybercrime.htm

  • First Draft of International Convention Released for Public Discussion http://www.coe.fr/cp/2000/300a(2000).htm

  • U.S. Proposes Stiffer Cybercrime Penalties http://www.ecommercetimes.com/news/articles2000/000503-1.shtml

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    Privacy

  • USA - Consumer survey on net users’ attitudes about online privacy. On 14 April 1999, the AT&T Research Laboratory released a survey titled "Beyond Concern: Understanding Net Users’ Attitudes About Online Privacy". The researchers evaluated consumers’ reactions to different methods employed by Web sites to request information from them. To this end they distributed questionnaires to some heavy business and residential Internet users. Although the sample is not statistically representative of the entire net community, the survey revealed some trends in online consumer attitudes. More or less all respondents registered a high level of concern about privacy on the Internet. Unsolicited commercial email, collection of personal information from children, tracking Web sites people visit without consent to compile email marketing lists have been regarded by consumers as serious invasions of privacy. The study found that users were much less willing to provide information when personally identifiable information was requested. While they were ready to provide a Web site with their email address, they considered phone numbers more private than any personal information other than credit card and social security numbers. The vast majority of consumers declared themselves unwilling to share any information that would identify their children by name, age or address. The full report is available at http://www.research.att.com/library/trs/TRs/99/99.4/99.4.3/report.htm

  • Privacy Resource from a doctoral student http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/chunter/p3p.html
  • The State of Online Privacy--by The Industry Standard, "The Newsmagazine of the Internet Economy." http://www.thestandard.com/metrics/display/0,1283,897,00.html
  • Australian Privacy Commissioner's Guidelines on Workplace E-mail, Web Browsing and Privacy (30/3/2000) http://www.privacy.gov.au/issues/p7_4.html
  • SingNet's Scan for Trojan horse : http://www.newsbytes.com/pubNews/130025.html

  • Self-Rating -- The EU has rejected the American v-chip approach to censoring violence on TV for technological and cultural reasons. The "Parental Control Of Television Broadcasting" study was was done by Oxford University's Centre for Socio-Legal Studies. Some of its recommendations have implications for content rating. http://europa.eu.int/comm/dg10/avpolicy/key_doc/parental_control/index.html

    Self-Regulation

  • In Search of the Self: Charting the Course of Self-Regulation on the Internet in a Global Environment by STEFAAN G. VERHULST of Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy, Oxford University and MONROE E. PRICE Yeshiva University, Benjamin Cardozo School of Law; Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy

    Defamation

  • Laurence Godfrey vs Demon.Net libel suit. April 2000.http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_695000/695596.stm.  Case analysis by UK CyberRight's Yaman Akdeniz. http://www.cyber-rights.org/reports/demon.htm
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