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Resources on Intermediary Liability and Gatekeeping
The threat of either liability or gatekeeping obligations reduces intermediaries’ willingness to host user-generated content, leads intermediaries to block even legal content, and inhibits innovation. Limiting such obligations and protecting intermediaries from liability for the expressive actions of third parties expands the space for online expression, encourages innovation in the development of new communications services, and creates more opportunities for local content, thereby supporting development of the information society.
The resources below are intended to support Internet advocates as they fight for policies that recognize these principles and urge governments to protect intermediaries as critical platforms for innovation, expression, and economic activity. Working together, we can advance policies to address unlawful or harmful online content without burdening intermediaries or restraining the exercise of human rights online. These resources are published with the intent that they be used, reused, modified, and extended to be most effective in a variety of contexts.
Shielding the Messengers: Protecting Platforms for Expression and Innovation
On The "Right to Be Forgotten": Challenges and Suggested Changes to the Data Protection Regulation
Censoring Facebook: Social network's violent video dilemma
The Six Vital Questions About NSA Surveillance
The American people are being told that the programs are subject to a "robust legal review" and in any event, have proven useful in fighting terrorism. The message has been straightforward: Nothing to see here folks, just move on. But we should not be reduced to playing guessing games about whether and how our own government is monitoring us and how far these programs reach into our private lives.
iPhone 6 rumor rollup for the week ending June 7
This week, three different dates for the iPhone 6; new rumors that it will have a 4.8-inch screen; how a trade-in offer means the Next iPhone is coming soon; and the belief that both iPhone 5S and iPhone 6 will be released at the same time.
Saturday, 8 June 2013
Kyrgyz vow to develop light industry
Friday, 7 June 2013
Tharparkar: Re-voting at 47 NA-229-230 polling stations today
THARPARKAR: The partial re-polls in NA-229,
NA-230, PS-62, and PS-63 constituencies of desert
district of Tharparkar’s will be held today
(Saturday, June 1, 2013),
Thursday, 6 June 2013
Talks with Taliban: JUI-F asks govt to create conducive environment
ISLAMABAD: The Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-
F) which has already decided not to play any
mediatory role in peace talks with Taliban
warned the PML-N government on Thursday of
a “complex situation” after withdrawal by the
militant organisation of its offer for talks. It
urged the government to create “conducive
environment for reconciliation”.
“Let us try to create a conducive environment for
talks and reconciliation, otherwise we will end
up fighting insurgency for years and the chance
for national building will be lost for decades,” a
JUI-F spokesman Jan Achakzai quoted Maulana
Fazlur Rehman as saying.
Talking to Dawn, Mr Achakzai said that Maulana
Fazlur Rehman believed that reconciliation with
the Taliban would not be possible if coercive
measures continued to be taken.
“We have to take them on board, otherwise we
will not be able to maintain sovereignty in Fata
whether because of Taliban challenging the writ
of the state or drones violating our sovereignty,”
said the Maulana.
According to the JUI-F chief, nearly 50,000
people had so far lost their lives because of
terrorism, but if “we do not find a solution,
there will be more losses incurred”.
Maulana Fazl said it was understandable that
the establishment was not ready to talk to
Taliban as “our officers and soldiers are dying”.
But, he claimed, military operations had not
contained militancy over the past decade and it
was time “to face it straight”.
The JUI-F chief suggested that “work should start
soon to remove the disconnect between all
stakeholders on Fata and the Taliban
insurgency.”
A few days ago, the JUI-F chief had stated that
his party was no more interested in playing any
role in bringing Taliban to the negotiating table
after realising that the country’s powerful
establishment was not in favour of any such
process.
He claimed to have the information that the
army had no interest whatsoever in peace talks
and reconciliation and, therefore, there was no
environment for any talks.
Soon after May 11 elections, the JUI-F and the
PML-N had started discussing a power-sharing
formula and the two parties had also constituted
committees to finalise it.
Earlier, the JUI-F had claimed that both parties
had agreed that talks with Taliban would be
held through a “grand peace jirga” as agreed by
the mainstream political parties in a
“declaration” at all-party conference organised
by the JUI-F in Islamabad on Feb 28.
But now the JUI-F feels that the PML-N appears
to have lost interest in it after the Taliban
withdrew the talks offer in the wake of the killing
of their impor-tant commander in a drone attack.
Authorities in Canada have charged the food giants Nestle and Mars, together with a network of independent wholesale distributors, in an alleged conspiracy to fix prices of chocolates.
chocolates.
The Competition Bureau in the capital Ottawa
said it has uncovered "evidence" suggesting
price-fixing.
Nestle Canada, Mars Canada, and the
distributors ITWAL have been charged.
The Bureau said the Canadian division of the US
confectionary company Hershey co-operated with
its investigation.
Officials said Hershey Canada, an alleged co-
conspirator, is expected to plead guilty at a
hearing later this month in exchange for
leniency.
"We are fully committed to pursuing those who
engage in egregious anti-competitive behaviour
that harms Canadian consumers," said John
Pecman, Interim Commissioner of Competition.
"Price-fixing is a serious criminal offence and
today's charges demonstrate the Competition
Bureau's resolve to stop cartel activity in
Canada," he added.
'Vigorous defence'
Mars Canada said in a statement: "Mars Canada
intends to vigorously defend itself against these
allegations. It is Mars Canada's policy not to
comment on pending litigation and we are
therefore unable to make any additional
comments in relation to this matter, which is
now before the court."
Three individuals have also been charged as part
of the investigation.
They are former Nestle Canada president Robert
Leonidas; Sandra Martinez, former president of
confectionery for Nestle Canada; and David
Glenn Stevens, president and chief executive of
ITWAL.
US swimming champion-turned-movie star Esther Williams has died in Los Angeles aged 91.
1.
Her spokesman said she died peacefully in her
sleep. She had been in declining health due to
old age.
A national swimming champion by the time she
was 16, her success led to a career in Hollywood
"aqua-musicals" designed just for her, in the
1940s.
She became known as Hollywood's Mermaid,
starring in films including Dangerous When Wet
and Easy to Wed.
Williams became one of cinema's biggest box-
office stars in the 1940s and 1950s, famously
appearing in spectacular swimsuits that
capitalised on her physical beauty.
Her films were typically lavish song-and-dance
affairs, following the same formula of romance,
music and comedy - held together by a
lightweight plot that provided infinite excuses
for the actress to get into the water.
Finales usually featured Williams diving into a
pool or lagoon and surfacing to a crescendo of
music, with water glistening on her beaming
face.
Her string of successful films included Thrill of a
Romance, Fiesta, On an Island With You and
Duchess of Idaho.
Co-stars included Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Red
Skelton, Ricardo Montalban and Howard Keel.
"I look at that girl and I like her," she said on
watching her films decades later, Reuters
reports.
"I can see why she became popular with
audiences. There was an unassuming quality
about her. She was certainly wholesome," she
said.
Esther Williams appeared on the BBC's Parkinson
show in 2000.
In the 1950s she attempted to branch out into
non-swimming roles, but met with little success.
"I guess what MGM found was that my audience
wanted that bathing suit," she said, when her
autobiography was released in 1999.
"And you know, when Cinemascope came in and
you've got that water all wrapped around you
and they'd do big close-ups of me... I think it
had too much pleasure connected with it for
them to change it."
She retired from the movies in 1962, following
her marriage to her third husband, Hollywood
playboy Fernando Lamas.
In her later years she hosted swimming events
for ABC-TV's coverage of the 1984 Olympic Games
and turned her attention to business, launching
her own line of swimwear.
Williams was married to Mr Lamas for 20 years
until his death in 1982. She and her last
husband Edward Bell lived in Los Angeles'
Beverly Hills.
Her autobiography also told of many romances,
including one with actor Jeff Chandler.
According to Williams, she discovered he was a
cross-dresser and walked out, explaining: "Jeff,
you're too big for polka dots." Several of Mr
Chandler's colleagues denied Williams' claims
when the book was published
The US National Security Agency (NSA) is collecting the telephone records of tens of millions of Americans, US officials have confirmed.
The practice, first reported by the Guardian
newspaper, has been used to stop a
"significant" terrorist attack on the US, a senior
congressman said.
On Wednesday, the newspaper published the
secret order directing the Verizon company to
hand over telephone data.
Civil liberties groups said the details of the
report were "stunning".
Senior US Senator Dianne Feinstein on Thursday
confirmed the secret court order was a three-
month renewal of an ongoing practice.
US House intelligence committee chairman Mike
Rogers told reporters collecting Americans'
phone records was legal, authorised by Congress
and had not been abused by the Obama
administration.
He said it had prevented a "significant" attack
on the US "within the past few years" but
declined to offer more information.
Later, White House spokesman Josh Earnest
described the practice as a "critical tool"
enabling US authorities to monitor suspected
terrorists.
Turkey PM urges end to protests
PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan returns to Turkey,
telling supporters that nationwide protests
border on illegality and must end immediately.
Wednesday, 5 June 2013
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Thursday, 30 May 2013
Dollar weakens in Asian trade
TOKYO: The dollar weakened in Asian trade
Thursday with few trading cues as firms adjust
their month-end forex positions, dealers said,
while concerns about global growth hung over
markets.
Oil prices recover in Asia
SINGAPORE: Oil prices recovered in Asian trade
Thursday following a drop triggered by fresh
economic data that highlighted global growth
concerns, analysts said. New York's main
contract, .
Death toll rises to 123 as two more die of measles
LAHORE: Two more children have died in Punjab
as the overall death toll from the measles
outbreak rose to 123 in the province. As many as
14,823 children are suffering from the disease
in ...
Seven die after taking poisonous food in Muzaffargarh
MUZAFFARGARH: Two more persons including a
girl child died after consuming poisonous food
at Bait Daryai area of Mir Hazar Khan, Jatoi on
Tuesday night after which the toll has increased
to seven, ...
test News SA, KPK MPAs to elect CM, speaker, deputy speaker today
KARACHI: The newly elected members of Sindh
and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa assemblies would elect
chief minister, speaker, and deputy speaker on
Thursday morning. Aga Siraj Durrani, MPA of
Pakistan ...
test News SA, KPK MPAs to elect CM, speaker, deputy speaker today
KARACHI: The newly elected members of Sindh
and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa assemblies would elect
chief minister, speaker, and deputy speaker on
Thursday morning. Aga Siraj Durrani, MPA of
Pakistan ...
Wednesday, 29 May 2013
Pentagon report: Chinese hackers accessed F-35B and other advanced US weapons systems
Many of the Pentagon's most advanced
weapon systems -- including the F-35 Joint
Strike Fighter and PAC-3 Patriot missile
system -- were compromised by Chinese
hackers, according to a classified document
obtained by the Washington Post. The list of
weapons was part of an earlier DoD report
condemning Chinese cyber-espionage
activities, but had been confidential until
now. Other systems hacked are said to
include the Terminal High Altitude Area
Defense (THAAD), the Navy's Aegis ballistic-
missile defense system, the F/A-18 fighter,
V-22 Osprey and the Littoral Combat Ship
used for shore patrol. Many of these form
the foundation of defense systems from
Europe to the Persian Gulf -- and their
breach goes a long way toward explaining
Washington's unprecedented dressing-down
of China.
Anti-Polio Campaign Worker Shot Dead in Pakistan »
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A volunteer in a
polio vaccination campaign was killed and
her colleague wounded in an attack by
militants near Peshawar on Tuesday, a
district administration official said.
The volunteers were going door to door to
give oral anti-polio drops to children in Sheik
Muhammadi, on the southern fringes of
Peshawar, when two gunmen opened fire on
them and fled, according to the deputy city
commissioner of Peshawar, Javed Marwat. A
police official said that a search operation
had begun but that no arrests had been
made.
Mr. Marwat said the women had not asked
to be accompanied by security.
“Probably, they thought it was good not to
go with a police escort and become a target,”
he said.
The government of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa,
the surrounding province, announced after
previous attacks that it would send police
escorts with polio vaccination teams. Most
such violence has been attributed to the
Pakistani Taliban, who have criticized
vaccination efforts as a cover for Western
espionage. Also, religious extremists claim
that the real aim of vaccination campaigns is
to sterilize Pakistan’s Muslim population.
The continued violence has seriously
hampered the campaign of polio
immunization in Pakistan, which is one of
the three countries in the world where polio
is endemic.
A total of 1,803 teams are involved in a
three-day round of anti-polio work that
began on Tuesday, an official in the health
department said. Four cases of polio have so
far been detected in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
Province this year, among the 12 cases
discovered throughout Pakistan, the official
said.
No group claimed responsibility for the
shooting on Tuesday. Mr. Marwat said a
meeting had been called to decide whether
to suspend or continue the polio vaccination
campaign.
Last week, militants opened fire on a polio
vaccination team in the northwestern tribal
belt, killing a paramilitary soldier protecting
the workers.
The killings have underscored the dangers
that the campaigns face in the region, which
is the major center of infections in Pakistan.
The effort involves 682 teams that aim to
vaccinate 223,570 children.
U.S. drone kills 4 militants in Pakistan
In this Sunday, Oct. 7, 2012 file photo, American
citizens, hold a banner during a peace march
organized by Pakistan's cricket star turned
politician Imran Khan's party, not pictured, in
Tank, Pakistan.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A pair of suspected
U.S. missiles fired from an unmanned aircraft
killed four alleged militants early Wednesday
near the Afghan border in Pakistan, intelligence
officials said, the first drone strike since
Pakistan's nationwide elections earlier this
month.
The strike was also the first since President
Barack Obama's speech last week on the
controversial U.S. drone program and more
restrictive rules he was implementing on their
use in places such as Pakistan and Yemen.
Wednesday's strike came in the North Waziristan
tribal region, a stronghold for militants in the
mountainous stretch of land bordering
Afghanistan to the west. Pakistani intelligence
officials said the missiles hit a house in the
town of Miran Shah, the main town in North
Waziristan.
The officials, who spoke on condition of
anonymity because they were not authorized to
talk to the media, said they suspected the house
was being used by foreign militants but had no
other details.
The tribal region is home to a variety of local
and Afghan militant outfits, including al-Qaeda-
linked fighters. The U.S. has often criticized
Pakistan, saying it does not vigorously target
militants in these areas. Using their safe havens
in Pakistan, militants are then targeting
American troops in neighboring Afghanistan.
Pakistani officials say their military is already
overly overtaxed by fighting militants in both the
northwestern tribal regions and in the
southwestern province of Baluchistan and that
the casualties they've already incurred battling
militants have not been properly recognized.
Washington's drone program is extremely
unpopular in Pakistan, although the number of
strikes has dropped significantly since the
height of the program in 2010.
The country's incoming prime minister, Nawaz
Sharif, has repeatedly said he is against the use
of American drones on Pakistani soil, and
Pakistani officials have demanded publicly that
the program be stopped.
Senior civilian and military officials are known to
have supported at least some of the attacks in
the past, but that is no longer the case.
Pakistan has been hit by 355 such attacks since
2004, according to the New America Foundation,
a U.S.-based think tank. The figure does not
include Wednesday's strike. Up to 3,336 people
have died in the strikes, said the think tank.
Obama's speech last Thursday was his most
extensive comments to date about the secretive
drone program, which has come under increased
criticism for its lack of accountability.
The president cast drone strikes against Islamic
militants as crucial to U.S. counterterrorism
efforts but acknowledged that they are not a
"cure-all." The president also said he is deeply
troubled by civilians unintentionally killed in the
strikes and announced more restrictive rules
governing the attacks — measures that his
advisers said would effectively limit drone use in
the future.
Tuesday, 28 May 2013
Husic questions whether Apple misled parliament
Apple should consider revising the evidence it
gave to the IT pricing inquiry, according to
Labor MP Ed Husic, who has questioned whether
the Cupertino giant misled parliament by not
fully disclosing its global corporate structure.
After being summoned to the inquiry in March,
Apple's vice president in Australia and New
Zealand, Tony King, pushed the blame for the
pricing disparity for IT and digital content
between Australia and the United States from
Apple to the content owners.
In response to a question on where Apple
Australia sources its hardware, King said Apple
sourced its hardware from overseas and that the
prices were set in Cupertino, but the entire
corporate structure was "very robust".
"We have very robust and deep accounting
systems in place to ensure that all of the
revenues associated with doing business in
Australia are fairly reported and all of the cost
of sale in terms of the hardware, transformation
costs and shipping costs are fairly reported," he
said.
"Certainly at a global level we are setting
consistent product costs for internal use around
the world. Those are a function of a number of
different things but I am not privy to the
underlying details within the product costs."
In Parliament on Tuesday night, Husic
questioned whether, in light of evidence from
the US Senate around Apple's corporate and tax
structure that said price was determined by
Apple in Singapore.
"I am concerned the committee inquiry has
been misled, either deliberately or
accidentally," he said.
"The corporate structure detailed in the US
Senate report was never offered by Apple
Australia and when pressed on its transfer
pricing or price setting, I put it to the House
that Apple deliberately avoided setting out the
detail that became evident in the US Senate
report," he said.
Husic said he called on Apple Australia to
correct the record or provide further detail on
the way it sets prices for products sold in
Australia.
Apple has been contacted for comment.
The US Senate determined that Apple had
implemented a complex web of subsidiaries
based across a number of countries to minimise
the taxes the company pays. It had been
determined, for example, that Apple paid just
two percent tax on profits of US$74 billion
through its Ireland subsidiary.
ZDNet understands that the parliamentary
committee investigating IT pricing disparity in
Australia is likely to table its report in the next
few weeks before parliament rises for the
federal election.
Apple to be more open in future:
Apple CEO Tim Cook believes that the
company's customers want Apple to make the
decisions about features in iOS, but that the
company would look to open up its API in the
future, he revealed in a wide-ranging interview
to kick off the D11 conference.
Cook said that Apple believes customers pay
the company to make choices on their behalf,
but that the closed nature of iOS would be
pried open slightly, with third parties being
allowed to implement some features in iOS.
With WWDC due in a fortnight, the CEO was
unsurprisingly cagey in addressing any new
devices or new releases of iOS or OS X to be
announced at the event.
In a move that will have the rumour mill
running until the conference, Cook dodged the
question on whether Apple was planning to
announce a multiple iPhone line up.
"We haven't so far. That doesn't shut off the
future," said Cook.
Cook discussed the trade-offs made by handset
manufacturers to carry screens larger than the
iPhone, and said that Apple still believes that
the Retina display is the best.
On the topic of iOS, rather than announce a
new Jony Ive flat UI-inspired nirvana, Cook cited
a range of engagement and customer
satisfaction statistics intended to demonstrate
how happy the marketplace is with iOS.
One area where the marketplace appears
unhappy is in regard to the company's stock
price. Cook dismissed worries about Apple's
stock price as part of a cycle, and said Apple
just focuses on products.
"Our North Star is always on making the best
products," he said.
The CEO was equally cagey when it came to
discussing his leadership techniques compared
to previous Apple CEO and co-founder Steve
Jobs. Keeping the culture of Apple was cited by
Cook as the most important responsibility of an
Apple CEO, but when pressed on leadership
styles, said that he and Jobs were different in a
ton of ways, though the same when it came to
"the most important things".
Apple has been under the pump in recent
weeks about its tax structure following Cook's
appearance before a US Senate Subcommittee
last week .
Cook said that Apple paid US$6 billion in taxes,
making it the largest amount paid in the US,
and called for comprehensive reform of the tax
code — so long as it was revenue neutral.
He denied that Apple had a special deal with
the Irish government, saying that he would like
to bring offshore profits back into the US, but
warned that the concept of a tax regime that
involved US companies paying US tax on sales
made throughout the world was a worrying one.
In Australia, government MP Ed Husic raised
the question of whether Apple misled the
Australian parliament after the company
appeared before the local IT pricing inquiry.
Turning to wearable technology, and Google
Glass in particular, Cook said that it has some
positives and would appeal in some vertical
markets, but that broad appeal is hard to see.
"There is nothing great out there that I have
seen, or will convince a kid who has never worn
watches, or a band or glasses to wear one," he
said.
"There are lots of things to solve, it's ripe for
exploration."
Whether Apple would venture into the realm of
wearing computing, Cook said that the area was
an important and profound one, but glasses are
risky.
"You have to convince people it's so incredible
you want to wear it."
As an exercise left to the reader, Cook
announced that Apple has acquired nine
companies, but would not reveal which
companies they were.
Cook downplayed interest in purchasing a social
network as Facebook and Twitter are already
integrated into Apple OSes.
Self-service banking can kill intimacy with customers: ANZ
Cutting down the number of
retail bank branches makes sense
from a cost perspective, but not
from a customer relationship
perspective, according to ANZ
CTO, Patrick Maes.
Australian government unveils national cloud strategy
Communications Minister Stephen
Conroy today released a national
cloud strategy that will, among
other things, require government
agencies to begin shifting their
websites into the public cloud.
Ego 2.0 and the tragedy of the shrinking digital commons
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previous era sounds a warning
about overconfident posturing
around how to do things by those
who rarely have and lack of
respect for those who actually
getting business done
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