Just to continue the thread on child pornography in Sweden. I came across this article that states that they are also looking to make viewing child pornography a crime soon. Reference of article dated November 2009, so we can expect this to happen in 2010. Sweden’s neighbours Denmark and Norway already have such legislation in place. This new law would make viewing child pornography on the Internet a crime, the offender does not even need to download the images.
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Possession of child pornography still legal in Japan :-(
Sweden was quite slow in making the possession of child pornography illegal, I think it was not until 1971, hence I was amazed to find out today that in Japan it is still NOT illegal. To go further the government is actually blocking efforts to make it illegal! They say that to make it illegal conflicts with the ‘freedom of expression’!
What about the children’s right for ‘freedom of expression’. The Japanese National Police Agency said it received 4,486 complaints from the public of child pornography on the internet in 2009 and a record 650 people were charged with offences related to child pornography. Campaigners believe that represents the tip of the iceberg.
I agree with the closing statement of Julian Ryall in Tokyo writing for the Telegraph.co.uk “The only people who will be pleased at the failure to pass this legislation are paedophiles.” Read more here.
You’ve got 0 friends
Following May’s post earlier this week, I was more than amused to be pointed towards this South Park episode “You’ve got 0 friends”. Would you believe me if I was to say that I have never watched South Park before? And now I can say that I have watched almost a complete single episode… well nearly to the end before I was pulled away to attend my daughter. However I saw enough to feel the need to share with you.
This episode epitomizes both the cool highs and lows and dilemmas of Facebook. Take a look even if you don’t like South Park, as is the case with myself. Especially all of you with a Facebook profile will find it very funny 🙂
Child abuse online
This makes me feel sick, I wish there was some way to stop it 🙁
Privacy concepts to a four-year old?
Micheal Power (barrister and solicitor) answers a very pertinent question on how would one describe privacy concepts…to a four year old? He calls the post “Kindergaten Privacy”, it is impossible to link in directly.
New Federal Data Protection Act in Mexico
Mexico’s Senate on Tuesday unanimously approved the Federal Data Protection Act. The law establishes the rights and principles of data protection in the private sector. According to Mr. M. Jorge Yanez V., a partner at the law firm of Barrera, Siqueiros y Torres Landa, S.C. in Mexico City, on April 13, 2010, the Mexican Chamber of Deputies has passed a bill that has become the country’s new Federal Law of Protection of Personal Information. Read more at Hunton & Williams privacy blog…
Hence this means that although personal data in Mexico first emerged in the shadow of the right to access public information it is now recognised as a fundamental constitutional right. To understand more about the background on right for personal privacy in Mexico you can read this essay at dataprotection.review.eu., edited by the data protection agency of Madrid and in English 🙂
Another change of privacy policy by Facebook
From one of Jack’s twitters 🙂
U.S. lawmakers told Facebook on Tuesday they were concerned about changes in its privacy policy that would allow personal information to be viewed by more than friends, and options on other websites that would allow third parties to save information about Facebook users and friends. Read more at the Washington Post.
RHUL Alumni Reunion Conference 2010
I don’t have many speaking engagements this year with a beautiful baby daughter to be distracted with 🙂 One I did have was last week at BCS Guildford in the U.K., that had to be cancelled unfortunately due to my flight being cancelled on preceding day. So my apologies to those that were planning to be there! My visit will be rescheduled for later this year.
However my next engagement in the U.K. will be at the beginning of July at the Royal Holloway Alumni Reunion Conference. I look forward to the networking with my esteemed RHUL colleagues. It will be a fun few days and I hope those of you that are visitors to Virtual Shadows blog are able to be there, there is a lot of catching up to do, and beers/wine to consume 😛
The programme for the event can be found here.
Google suckage ratio counts!
A ratio that is calculated that gives some indication of the online reputation of organisations using statistics. Read more at Blackfistsecurity.com
You take the number of mentions, against the number of negative reports and from this you get a suckage ratio. If you list several companies you can rank them against each other. For example HP ranks higher than IBM in the following calculations done by my esteemed HP colleague Eoin Fleming:
Your online reputation matters!
I heard on the Swedish news today that the SEB bank is paying a company to clean and enhance the online presence of their VP. This includes paying a fee to increase Google ranking for positive information over negative.
This type of service is growing and not surprisingly. Read my article in The Hindu on the ‘publications’ tab to read more in my opinions here.