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Date: 1998-10-29
UK: User ueberwachen Ueberwacher
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Die Internet Watch Foundation, eine Körperschaft zur
Selbstregulierung der IT-Industrie mit unterstürtzung des
briutischen Handelsministeriums, wird in nunmehr selbst
einer Überwachung zugeführt. Weniger durch eine
Körperschaft sondern vielmehr durch ganz einfache User.
29 October, 1998 LEEDS - Cyber-Rights & Cyber-Liberties
(UK) encourages British Internet users to express their views
on the review of the Internet Watch Foundation.
Business advisory firm KPMG and City solicitors Denton Hall
are launching a review of the Internet Watch Foundation
("IWF") with a confidential Web site - www.kpmgiwf.org -
encouraging the public to express their views on illegal
content on the Internet and the work of the IWF. The final
report by KPMG and Denton Hall will be submitted to the
Department of Trade and Industry ("DTI") in December 1998.
(See below for their press release)
Yaman Akdeniz, director of Cyber-Rights & Cyber-Liberties
(UK) and the author of two "Who Watches the Watchmen"
reports which were critical of the activities of the IWF said
that:
"It is good to give a chance to public for comments but the
review at www.kpmgiwf.org is only limited to the activities of
the IWF as far as illegal content is concerned. The
involvement of the IWF as an industry based body with
important public policy issues such as the development of
rating and filtering systems are omitted."
"Although the IWF acts as a private self regulatory body, its
actions directly involve public matters and the IWF is involved
with the UK government's policy making process. No
decisions should be taken without proper public consultation
and an open and transparent environment should be
established for regulatory initiatives in the field of Internet
regulation rather than important policies being developed
behind closed doors in secrecy. The public has a right to
know from the very early stages of a policy making process.
So far, both the DTI and the IWF have failed their duties and
managed to provide as little information as possible on why
certain policies are preferred without the need for public
consultation."
...
Firstly, the website created by the reviewing firm is rated with
a PICS label used by the RSACi system favoured by the
IWF. Secondly, all comments would be made anonymously
through a secure system (but no information has been
provided on what sort of technology has been used).
Therefore, one aspect of the website favours the current IWF
and DTI policy on rating and filtering systems while the
anonymous use of the web would be in contrast with the IWF
and DTI Safety-Net proposals which has seen anonymity as
a danger."
full text
http://www.cyber-rights.org/press/
related links
http://www.internetwatch.org.uk
at http://www.kpmgiwf.org/
relayed by Yaman Akdeniz [email protected]
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