 | INTERNET LAW - Pakistan's Prevention of Electronic Crimes Ordinance, 2007 |
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| | IBLS Editor, Kelly O´connell
Monday, April 14, 2008
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| | Pakistan has finally passed an IT crimes bill meant to generally regulate the Internet sector and also punish those using the web for terrorism. The legislation was put into law on December, 3I 2007. The law stipulates penalties of anywhere from six months imprisonment to the death penalty for 17 types of cyber crimes. The bill covers such high-tech crimes of cyber terrorism, criminal access, criminal data access, data damage electronic fraud, electronic forgery, misuse of electronic system or electronic device, unauthorised access to code, misuse of encryption, misuse of code, cyber stalking.
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| INTERNET LAW - Internet vs. Freedom of Speech: Pakistan Blocks YouTube |
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008
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| | YouTube, the most popular United States ("US”) video sharing website, was blocked by the Pakistani government for showing material considered offensive to the Islam. The Pakistani government ordered internet service providers to block YouTube website after an inter-ministerial committee considered that the video sharing website displayed 'blasphemous material,' including videos and documents. YouTube would be allowed to return to the Internet view if the company removes blasphemous videos and documents about Pakistan.
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| INTERNET LAW - Islamic Terrorist Software Released to Cloak Jihadist Internet Communications |
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| | Kelly O'Connell, IBLS Editor
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
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| | Software designed specifically to aid Muslim terrorists hide their identities and location while online has been released in an updated version, according to security analyst Paul Henry of Secure Computing. He says the program is named Mujahideen Secrets 2, and claims it is "the first Islamic program for secure communications through networks with the highest technical level of encoding." Henry, VP of technology evangelism at Secure states that until recently al-Qaida didn't pose a credible threat on the Internet because of its reliance upon outdated technology. But having now developed modern encryption tools, the entire equation is changed. Equally disturbing is the fact the new jihadist program is being distributed via servers based in the U.S. -- in Tampa, Florida.
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| INTERNET LAW - Saudis Censor Blogger, Highlighting Lack of Online Rights |
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| | Kelly O'Connell, IBLS Editor
Monday, January 14, 2008
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| | Lack of Internet Rights of Free Speech and Political Expression in Saudi Arabia and the Muslim world have been highlighted again by the detention of a well-known blogger whom the Government deems a threat to their society. The royal Government Interior Ministry said Fouad al-Farhan, 32, was arrested December 10 "because he violated the regulations of the kingdom." Farhan used his blog to condemn state corruption and demand political reform, is being held "for violating rules not related to state security," according to Saudi Government spokesman, Maj. Gen. Mansour al-Turki.
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| INTERNET LAW - Benazir Bhutto Assassination Websites Used to Spread Computer Viruses |
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| | Kelly O'Connell, IBLS Editor
Wednesday, January 09, 2008
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| | Many websites apparently meant to mourn Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's murder by assassin were really designed to help spread malware for fraud and other nefarious purposes. This proves again how quickly Internet criminals can move to capitalize on opportunities to find new victims. Most of these malicious websites are located at the free blog site hosted by Google. These personal websites materialized almost immediately after Bhutto's death, and were built to spread viruses. The Google Blogspot pages that promised a video of the assassination of Bhutto were quite popular since they gave an alternative angle to the official Government explanation regarding the cause of death of Bhutto, and remain active today, claim security analysts.
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| INTERNET LAW - What are the Legal Remedies against Spam? |
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| | IBLS Contributor Odia Kagan Tel Aviv, Israel, odia@okaganlaw.com
Wednesday, December 05, 2007
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| | In July 2005 the Knesset confirmed Amendment 33 of the Communications Law (Telecommunications and Broadcasting (5765-2005) which was intended to deal with "the phenomenon of the mass distribution of unwanted advertisements through communications networks".
The Anti-Spam bill was tabled due to the rise in volume of unsolicited email messages which account for more that 70% of the email transmissions in the world. In addition disturbing recipients, the spam phenomenon causes congestion in email traffic. These "traffic jams" delay the arrival of messages at their destinations, burden the operation of email servers and may cause them to crash.
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| INTERNET LAW - Fighting Anonymous Defamation |
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| | IBLS Contributor Odia Kagan Tel Aviv, Israel, odia@okaganlaw.com
Monday, November 26, 2007
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| | How can an anonymous writer of defamatory content be brought to trial? In June 2007, it was published that Tnuva, Israel's largest supplier of dairy products, filed a complaint with the police for the exposure of the anonymous defamer discussed above. The exposure of an email user is not simple, especially if he registered for a free online email account and provided false information upon registration. The exposure is twice as hard if a public computer, such as one in an internet café, was used for distributing the defamatory material.
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| INTERNET LAW - Do you Want a Movie you Purchased on your iPod? You are Breaking the Law |
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| | IBLS Contributor Odia Kagan Tel Aviv, Israel, odia@okaganlaw.com
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
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| | The movie studios in the US filed a lawsuit stating that when you transfer a movie you purchased legally for watching in a DVD to a portable video player you are committing copyright infringement. What does the law in Israel state?
You purchase a movie on DVD and watch it on your home DVD player. Later, you decide to watch it again, this time on the train on your way to work on your personal video player. You have just infringed the copyright in the movie, argue the movie studios in the US (MPAA member companies) in a lawsuit filed in New York.
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| INTERNET LAW - Western Intelligence Claim: November Electronic Jihad Ordered as Al Qaeda Reels in Decline |
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| | Kelly O'Connell, IBLS Editor
Monday, November 12, 2007
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| | Intercepted messages in Arabic recently decoded on Middle Eastern and Western sites purportedly indicate that an "Electronic Jihad" was called for on Monday, October 29th, by what some terrorist analysts are claiming is an increasingly outmaneuvered and beleaguered Al Qaeda. This report comes from the Israeli Security and Anti-terrorism intelligence organization, DEBKA, and has been confirmed by other sources, such as the cyber investigations unit of the Northeast Intelligence Network. More, the Internet attack has been called for November 2007 and is said to target "Western, Jewish, Israeli, Muslim apostate and Shiite Web sites," according to the organization's briefing letter, the DEBKAfile. The Northeast Intelligence Network claims that many different Western sites could be targeted, especially financial infrastructure addresses.
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| INTERNET LAW - Even at the Age of the Internet – the World would Have Stood by |
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| | IBLS Contributor Odia Kagan Tel Aviv, Israel, odia@okaganlaw.com
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
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| | Many blame this on technology (or the lack thereof) during those times. In those days, it took time for news to travel from place to place; and from one end of the world to the other. Thus, information of the expulsions, the camps and what went on in them – travelled to the West and to the United States after a long time. However, even then there were several news items in the last pages of the newspapers depicting the horros – which were easily ignored.
Even inside Germany, people living a stone's throw away from the camps themselves – did not always suspect that something was amiss, and did not awaken when thousands of people were taken from their homes in the dark of night – or in broad daylight.
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| INTERNET LAW - Interpretation: Email Communications are akin to Telephone Conversations in Israel |
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| | IBLS Contributor Odia Kagan Tel Aviv, Israel, odia@okaganlaw.com
Monday, October 29, 2007
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| | Intercepting an email before it is received by the recipient constitutes eavesdropping - decided the Tel-Aviv District Court in early February 2007. The brave and innovative judgment by Judge Chaled Kabub will change the ways the Israeli police operates and will somewhat fortify what little privacy is left for Israeli in the online world.
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| INTERNET LAW - Work Permits in Turkey |
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| | IBLS Charter Partner: Eda Kilic Esq., Just & Fair law Firm, www.justandfair.com
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
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| | Foreign nationals working in Turkey need to obtain a work permit, working visa and a residence permit in order to be eligible to work and reside in Turkey, unless exempted from such requirements by special provisions in the legislation.
Turkey law #4817, Concerning the Work Permits Issued to Foreigners (Official Gazette 6 March 2003/25040), is the national law regarding employment of foreign workers and came into effect in September 2003. This new law has eliminated the scattered and the multi- faceted structure of previous foreign workers laws in Turkey, and it has unified the national law in this matter. One of the most important features of law 4817 is the issuance of work permits from a single Turkish authority.
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| INTERNET LAW - Israel: ISP's will Block Pornographic Sites upon Request |
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| | IBLS Contributor Odia Kagan Tel Aviv, Israel, odia@okaganlaw.com
Monday, August 27, 2007
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| | On July 8, 2007 a bill was approved by the Israeli Government's Ministers' Committee for legislation requiring ISPs to provide to clients a service for blocking websites which are "not fit for children". Such sites are defined websites containing primarily violent, pornographic or gambling content, provided that the websites are not intrinsically of any artistic scientific, news, educational or social value [More...] |
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| INTERNET LAW - Israeli Labor Tribunal Sets forth the Scope of Employee's Privacy in Email |
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| | IBLS Contributor: Odia Kagan Tel Aviv, Israel, odia@okaganlaw.com
Monday, August 13, 2007
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| | An employee's right to privacy in his email correspondence in the workplace is not absolute. The Israeli Regional Labor Tribunal sets forth criteria for answering the question: When may an employer read his employees' email.
Before email overtook our lives and became the communications method of choice even when the sender and the recipient are in adjacent room, matters of certain sensitivity were left to be discussed in person and not over the telephone. A judgment handed by the Israeli Regional Labor Tribunal of Tel-Aviv Jaffa, by the Hon. Judge Sigal Davidov-Motolla, clarifies that these days, such sensitive information should be left out of the email as well - especially when is it email used in the workplace
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| INTERNET LAW - Israeli Websites Liable for Publishing Personal Data on Dating Ad |
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| | IBLS Contributor: Odia Kagan, Tel Aviv, Israel, odia@okaganlaw.com
Monday, August 06, 2007
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| | In Civil Claim 68845/06 Zevuluni v. Walla Communications Et. Al, the Magistrates Court of Tel Aviv found Internet portal and search engine “Walla!” and dating website “Cupid” liable for libel for having used Plaintiff’s name in an online advertisement for the dating website. The advertisement for the website “Cupid”, which was displayed on the Walla website, showed an anonymous figure looking for love using the yellow pages, and displayed the name, address and telephone number of Mr. Zevuluni, an attorney, with the caption “There are simpler ways for finding love.” [More...] |
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| INTERNET LAW - Chip-per Copyright Infringement |
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| | IBLS Contributor: Attorney Odia Kagan, Tel Aviv, Israel, odia@okaganlaw.com
Monday, July 30, 2007
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| | US Federal Court determined that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act should be used for the prevention of piracy and illegal copying and not for the prevention of the sale of programs which facilitate legitimate access and use and enable significant non-infringing commercial action. The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) cannot be used to prevent competition in the printer ink cartridge market.
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| INTERNET LAW - Internet Wiretaps Prohibited…For Now |
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| | IBLS Contributor: Attorney Odia Kagan, Tel Aviv, Israel, odia@okaganlaw.com
Thursday, July 19, 2007
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| | In an unusual decision the Court granted the motion of civil rights organizations to rehear a case, pertaining to the wiretapping of e-mail messages. The Federal Court of Appeals of the First Circuit decided on October 5, 2004 to rehear the US v. Councilman case, which had been decided by the same Court on June 29, 2004. In this decision, the Court ruled that Internet service providers did not violate the Wiretap Act by monitoring the content of users’ e-mail messages without their permission. The Court vacated the decision pending the rehearing of the case. [More...] |
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| INTERNET LAW - Charges Filed For Email Fraud |
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| | IBLS Contributor: Attorney Odia Kagan, Tel Aviv, Israel, odia@okaganlaw.com
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
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| | Fraud charges were recently filed against, Oren Rahimian, an Israeli resident, for email fraud and transfer of false information by email, according to the Globes, Israel’s leading financial newspaper. The defendant allegedly opened an email account in the name of the complainant, a classmate of his, and sent emails to her friends in her name, stating that this was her new email address. [More...] |
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| INTERNET LAW - More Israeli Cases Request the Identities of Web Users |
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| | IBLS Contributor: Attorney Odia Kagan, Tel Aviv, Israel, odia@okaganlaw.com
Wednesday, July 04, 2007
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| | The ink on the Court ruling in the Mor case, which sets guidelines for disclosing the identity of anonymous writers on the web, had not even dried yet, when two new lawsuits were filed requesting such disclosure. Attorney Jacob Sabo filed a motion requesting the District Court of Tel Aviv to order the disclosure of the identity of user Tzahi200. Business owner Amos Avtalion filed another motion requesting the same Court to order two Internet service providers to disclose the identity of a different web user. [More...] |
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| INTERNET LAW - Israeli Court Holds Forum Manager Liable For User Content |
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| | IBLS Contributor: Attorney Odia Kagan, Tel Aviv, Israel, odia@okaganlaw.com
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
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| | In C 032986/03 Moshe Boshmitz v. Anat Aronowitz, Magistrates Court of Tel-Aviv Jaffa, Israeli Judge Shoshana Almagor held that the manager of an online forum may be liable for the content published by the forum users on a theory of negligence. The defendant, Ms. Aronowitz, was the manager of a forum dealing with the welfare of animals in the popular Israeli website “Walla!” The Claimant, Dr. Boshmitz, a veterinarian and an owner of a farm that breeds monkeys and sells them for research purposes, filed suit against the defendant regarding libelous statements she made against him in the forum as well as statements made by users of the forum. [More...] |
