Search / 11 posts tagged child online protection act

Yesterday, the Senate passed S. 602, “The Child Safe Viewing Act of 2007,” which was introduced by Sen. Mark Pryor (D-AR) in February 2007. The bill requires the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to study the market for “advance blocking technologies” (i.e., parental controls and rating systems)

Amidst an economic crisis, the Congress found some time this week to address online threats to children. The Protect Our Children Act, introduced by Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., made it through the Senate Thursday.

This week, I have been up at Harvard University participating in another meeting of the Internet Safety Technical Task Force (ISTTF), of which I am a member. The ISTTF was organized earlier this year pursuant to an agreement between 49 state attorneys general (AGs) and social networking giant MySpace.com.

Another chapter in the seemingly never-ending saga of the Child Online Protection Act (COPA) of 1998 was written this week when the Third Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling striking down COPA, which would require Web operators to restrict access to large amounts of online speech and expression.

There are a couple of fairly big computer stories going on today, too. First, PC World reports that rogue IT administrator Terry Childs, who has been in a San Francisco jail for the past ten days, has handed over working passwords for the computer network he operated to mayor Gavin Newsom.

This round-up includes spam, porn, and money talk. Oh, you know you wanna read it… 1. The quote that wouldn’t die… Talking Points Memo: White House Still Trying to Explain Away Maliki When a guy you more or less install in power and keep there on a very short leash starts going off the reservation, you first claim there was some sort of translation error.

This round-up includes spam, porn, and money talk. Oh, you know you wanna read it… 1. The quote that wouldn’t die… Talking Points Memo: White House Still Trying to Explain Away Maliki When a guy you more or less install in power and keep there on a very short leash starts going off the reservation, you first claim there was some sort of translation error.

The Department of Justice has failed a third time to resuscitate the Child Online Protection Act, or COPA, a federal law designed to protect children from the vast reams of smut upon which it believes the Internet to be built.

The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court's ruling today, affirming that the Child Online Protection Act (COPA) is unconstitutional. It's the latest development in the legal saga surrounding COPA, the 1998 law that would make it a crime to publish online content that is deemed harmful to minors unless it's protected behind an age-verification or credit card screen.

Home Office Minister Vernon Coaker today stepped up the Government’s commitment to the global protection of young people, having signed the Council of Europe’s Convention on the Protection of Children from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse. The signature coincided with the second anniversary of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP).