Stories about: Internet Industry Association

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    More doubts surface over enforceability of ACMA's blacklist 24/03/2009 14:41:00

    With the leaking of the supposed Australian Communication & Media Authority's (ACMA) URL “blacklist”, further doubts have been raised over whether such a list, and even Web Filtering itself, can successfully achieve the federal government's goal of protecting Australians from undesirable content like child pornography.
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    Industry baffled over clean-feed internet pilot 12/12/2008 15:43:00

    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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    Internet industry backs iiNet in copyright fight 21/11/2008 16:07:00

    The Australian Internet industry has supported iiNet in its defence against legal action filed by the leading US media giants and the Seven Network, which experts say could force providers to police peer-to-peer traffic if the Federal Court rules in favour of the plaintiffs.
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    'Appalled' opposition hits back at Conroy’s Internet censorship 24/10/2008 14:35:00

    The newly appointed shadow broadband minister, Senator Nick Minchin, has voiced his appall that a member of Senator Conroy’s office had tried to curb severely critical comments made by Internode network engineer Mark Newton regarding the government’s Internet content filtering scheme.
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    Govt, industry welcome new online code of practice 16/07/2008 14:43:26

    The Communications minister has signaled the government's support for the Content Services Code, an Internet Industry Association code of practice for providers of online and mobile phone content.
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    10 Tech Pioneers: Where Are They Now? 24/11/2007 07:04:40

    These former technology luminaries have all taken different paths. How different? One's a country doctor, one's a budding movie mogul, and one teaches toddlers--and he's not even alive.
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    MIPI: RIAA piracy win puts pressure on local ISPs 11/10/2007 14:12:49

    Australia's MIPI (Music Industry Piracy Investigations) is pressuring local ISPs to shut down customers illegally downloading music following the successful trial of a woman in the US by the RIAA for music sharing which resulted in a $US220,000 ($AU244,000) guilty verdict.
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    Government seeks to ban more websites 22/09/2007 03:59:35

    The Australian Government has tabled a bill that will increase the power of police to ban websites that they deem crime or terrorism related.
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    Taskforce: is Facebook being used by sex offenders? 15/09/2007 04:29:39

    The Federal Government yesterday announced a working group to investigate the potential of social networking sites such as Facebook to be used by paedophiles and sex offenders to contact and groom children.
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    IIA welcomes Howard's $189 million Internet plan 15/08/2007 12:02:55

    The IIA's CEO Peter Coroneos has welcomed the Federal Government's plan to protect Australians online following prime minister John Howard's recent announcement of an $189 million plan to improve Internet safety by using filtering services to ISPs and providing free software for home use.
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    IIA offers free anti-virus software 24/10/2006 08:29:23

    The Internet Industry Association (IIA) Monday launched its GetNetSafe scheme, which aims to increase the awareness of online security, and spyware in particular, with Australian Internet users.
 
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