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RSS chatroomsDan's China diary - day 8
Comment Mrs Rao didn't know what to do but surf the net day and night and talk in chatrooms. This is his warts-and-all diary, which appears daily this month. For in-depth coverage of this fact-finding trip inside China, including analysis and exclusive... [17 Jun 2006]
IM worm installs rogue browser
News These PCs are connected to instant messaging networks and typically logged in to chatrooms, which are often the starting point for new IM worms. A new instant messaging worm installs a rogue web browser called "Safety Browser" and hijacks the user... [23 May 2006]
School bullies taunt victims over the net
News Last year the NHC released a similar study that found one in five youngsters had suffered 'digital bullying' either by text messages, email or in internet chatrooms. One in 10 teenagers has been bullied online over email or instant messenger, while... [15 Mar 2006]
Leader: Stop self-policing
Leader both shut chatrooms, citing concerns they were being used by paedophiles. One of China's leading portals, NetEase, announced today it has shut its MP3 search facility, fearing it could be blamed for the illegal music files that such a search turns... [17 Aug 2005]
One in five kids hit by 'digital bullying'
News One in five youngsters has suffered from 'digital bullying' either by text messages, email or in internet chatrooms. Other forms of digital bullying experienced included abuse in internet chatrooms (five per cent) and via email (four per cent). [07 Jun 2005]
The nation in 2004: Are you more techie than the average Briton?
News According to the Office of National Statistics' Yearbook 2004 - a snapshot of the tastes and events of the nation in 2004 - 53 per cent of UK households have internet access, 84 per cent of the UK's internet users have used email between April... [30 Nov 2004]
CIA checks out chatrooms
News The CIA is quietly funding federal research into surveillance of internet chatrooms as part of an effort to identify possible terrorists, newly released documents reveal. The proposed system could aid the intelligence community to discover hidden... [25 Nov 2004]
Will 'bounty' scheme stop spammers?
News When Sven Jaschan was arrested for writing Sasser it was because he had been bragging to friends and boasting about it in chatrooms. The US Federal Trade Commission is considering offering bounties of as much as $250,000 on spammers in an attempt... [17 Sep 2004]
5 years ago... Wire-tapping laws set to cost UK ISPs millions
News The idea that ISPs should take a more active role in controlling the use of their chatrooms, with regards to grooming and the dissemination of child pornography was popular with many, but suggestions that ISPs hand over customer information to the... [20 Aug 2004]
Safer surfing - the EU's €50m priority
News The EU will also be getting behind awareness campaigns to educate teachers, parents and children on the potential risks of surfing the internet, with a particular emphasis on "personalised, interactive and mobile applications", after fears that... [15 Mar 2004]
Best of Reader Comments: Nationwide's offshoring snub and internet blame game
News As a family, we talk about the dangers of chatrooms, in the same way we would discuss why a film/television programme may or may not be suitable for them to view. A number of stories from the past week have caused an influx of emails and reader... [20 Jan 2004]
Mobile guidelines to bar kids from adult content
News Children will be blocked from accessing chatrooms, online gambling, mobile gaming and adult websites via their mobile phones under new guidelines officially unveiled today. Chatrooms - which children's charities say are targeted by paedophiles to... [19 Jan 2004]
3G 'child porn' claims scare operators into action
News Children under 18 will be unable to use third-generation phones with unlimited access, effectively barring them from entering adult-orientated sites, including porn or gambling sites as well as chatrooms. [13 Jan 2004]
Net accused over 1,500 per cent rise in child porn crimes
News He believes that whereas with 'fixed' internet, accessed typically by sitting at a PC, children's usage can be monitored by parents or teachers, with mobile internet phones children can use them anywhere and enter chatrooms without similar... [12 Jan 2004]
Campaign aims to protect kids from online dangers
News The aim of the campaign is to make parents aware of the potential for paedophiles to use the internet to 'groom' victims, as well as advising young web users how to keep themselves safe on the internet and reiterating the message that they shouldn... [08 Jan 2004]
