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Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/google-the-pot-and-the-kettle/ What is it about our love affair with Google that we let them take wholesale liberties with our privacy, and sit back and watch what might be one of the largest data breaches in history go by without so much as a whimper? After some prodding, Google recently admitted to European Privacy Commissioners that they had “mistakenly” collected the contents of communications between some computer users, as part of their “Street View” activities.  Mistakenly.  All around the world. For four years. It goes something like this: specially equipped “Street View” vehicles criss-cross entire nations, taking photographs of our houses and streets, geo-tagging the location with both a GPS and also by “sniffing” for WI FI connections in the area.  That way, when a person uses a Google product to locate themselves (like Google Maps), and there are WI FI networks detected nearby, Google can triangulate the device and give you an approximate location.  Pretty cool, and nothing really too scary about that, even though there were privacy concerns raised at the time.  We trusted Google. penberthyd@newsltd.com.au (David Penberthy) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/google-the-pot-and-the-kettle/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/google-the-pot-and-the-kettle/#item3118 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 There is a lot of misinformation circulating about the Government’s ISP-level filtering proposal and Eliza Cussen was right to warn people they shouldn’t believe everything they hear or read (Top Ten Internet Filter Lies, 25 March 2010). Unfortunately her article repeated some of the misinformation and I’d like to outline the facts. The Government has always maintained there is no silver bullet when it comes to cyber safety and we have never said ISP-level filtering alone would help fight child pornography or keep children safe online. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/dont-believe-the-myths-on-the-isp-filter/ There is a lot of misinformation circulating about the Government’s ISP-level filtering proposal and Eliza Cussen was right to warn people they shouldn’t believe everything they hear or read (Top Ten Internet Filter Lies, 25 March 2010). Unfortunately her article repeated some of the misinformation and I’d like to outline the facts. The Government has always maintained there is no silver bullet when it comes to cyber safety and we have never said ISP-level filtering alone would help fight child pornography or keep children safe online. penberthyd@newsltd.com.au (David Penberthy) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/dont-believe-the-myths-on-the-isp-filter/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/dont-believe-the-myths-on-the-isp-filter/#item2779 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 There is a lot of misinformation circulating about the Government’s ISP-level filtering proposal and Eliza Cussen was right to warn people they shouldn’t believe everything they hear or read (Top Ten Internet Filter Lies, 25 March 2010). Unfortunately her article repeated some of the misinformation and I’d like to outline the facts. The Government has always maintained there is no silver bullet when it comes to cyber safety and we have never said ISP-level filtering alone would help fight child pornography or keep children safe online. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/dont-kill-off-online-tributes-because-of-bad-press/ Online memorials have been getting a bad rap lately, and in many ways, rightly so. The cruel comments posted on the Facebook memorial page for murdered Brisbane 12-year-old Elliott Fletcher are nothing short of repulsive. Even after the furore over the posting of pornographic images on Fletcher’ s site, insensitive and offensive comments persist. Amid good wishes to Elliott and his family, Matt Jackson has written on one Fletcher tribute page, “im famous, im on the world famous post hahahahaha hi mum im on tv lol.” Scroll down. One of three “fan photos” at that page’s left shows Fletcher in life, grinning under tousled hair, with the words “Woot I’m [sic] dead” written over him in thick red marker. penberthyd@newsltd.com.au (David Penberthy) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/dont-kill-off-online-tributes-because-of-bad-press/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/dont-kill-off-online-tributes-because-of-bad-press/#item2511 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 There is a lot of misinformation circulating about the Government’s ISP-level filtering proposal and Eliza Cussen was right to warn people they shouldn’t believe everything they hear or read (Top Ten Internet Filter Lies, 25 March 2010). Unfortunately her article repeated some of the misinformation and I’d like to outline the facts. The Government has always maintained there is no silver bullet when it comes to cyber safety and we have never said ISP-level filtering alone would help fight child pornography or keep children safe online. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/what-next-for-facebook-after-its-nightmare-week/ Public outrage over the shocking vandalism of internet tribute sites for two young Queenslanders who died in terrible circumstances has again raised questions over freedom online. The worldwide web next month celebrates its 21st anniversary. It has grown from a single web page to more than a trillion unique pages and is expanding rapidly every day. Social network sites such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and YouTube transformed the web from largely static pages under a website owner’s control into something more fluid, with people interacting on the websites to create content. penberthyd@newsltd.com.au (David Penberthy) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/what-next-for-facebook-after-its-nightmare-week/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/what-next-for-facebook-after-its-nightmare-week/#item2508 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 There is a lot of misinformation circulating about the Government’s ISP-level filtering proposal and Eliza Cussen was right to warn people they shouldn’t believe everything they hear or read (Top Ten Internet Filter Lies, 25 March 2010). Unfortunately her article repeated some of the misinformation and I’d like to outline the facts. The Government has always maintained there is no silver bullet when it comes to cyber safety and we have never said ISP-level filtering alone would help fight child pornography or keep children safe online. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/facebook-responds-shock-at-obscenities-apology-planned/ The Punch has just left Facebook’s headquarters in San Francisco where the company sought to address the fallout from the controversy of tribute pages to dead minors being defaced with obscene content. Following questions earlier this week from The Punch, Facebook’s global communications and policy director, Debbie Frost, told us the company was sending a letter to Queensland Premier Anna Bligh apologising for the incident and addressing the Premier’s letter of concern sent to the social networking giant this week. Frost said the incident was unprecedented in her time at Facebook, adding it was difficult to fathom how people would decide to attack memorial pages in this way. penberthyd@newsltd.com.au (David Penberthy) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/facebook-responds-shock-at-obscenities-apology-planned/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/facebook-responds-shock-at-obscenities-apology-planned/#item2493 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 There is a lot of misinformation circulating about the Government’s ISP-level filtering proposal and Eliza Cussen was right to warn people they shouldn’t believe everything they hear or read (Top Ten Internet Filter Lies, 25 March 2010). Unfortunately her article repeated some of the misinformation and I’d like to outline the facts. The Government has always maintained there is no silver bullet when it comes to cyber safety and we have never said ISP-level filtering alone would help fight child pornography or keep children safe online. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/online-tributes-a-hollow-immitation-of-genuine-grief/ As a new recruit to Facebook, I admit I was not exactly on the first-wave of the online social networking phenomena. It’s not that I’m a techo-phobe by any measure (my blackberry is a constant companion). It’s just that I am not entirely convinced that the addition of a Facebook page will enhance either my work or personal lives.  And the thing is, in this job, the two are often inextricably linked. MPs are public figures - albeit very minor ones. And - after sharing weekends, evenings and most waking hours with either my local constituents, my parliamentary colleagues,  Industry groups and stakeholders within my shadow portfolio responsibilities -  I’d kinda like to keep a little bit of me just for my nearest and dearest. Call me old fashioned (and I’m sure many of you will) but I prefer to share my personal trials, triumphs and trivia with those I am closest to, rather than the-acquaintance-of-an-acquaintance who I met once at a function and who has now requested to be my “friend”. penberthyd@newsltd.com.au (David Penberthy) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/online-tributes-a-hollow-immitation-of-genuine-grief/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/online-tributes-a-hollow-immitation-of-genuine-grief/#item2491 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 There is a lot of misinformation circulating about the Government’s ISP-level filtering proposal and Eliza Cussen was right to warn people they shouldn’t believe everything they hear or read (Top Ten Internet Filter Lies, 25 March 2010). Unfortunately her article repeated some of the misinformation and I’d like to outline the facts. The Government has always maintained there is no silver bullet when it comes to cyber safety and we have never said ISP-level filtering alone would help fight child pornography or keep children safe online. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/five-questions-for-facebook-after-tribute-pages-defaced/ Update 7am: Despite the company’s statement yesterday, Queensland Premier Anna Bligh and federal Communications Minister Stephen Conroy say Facebook needs to explain itself. The Punch is still awaiting a response to its questions put to Facebook’s press office. Update 4.45pm Wednesday: Today there are at least two groups live on Facebook - one of which has over 3400 members - calling for the death of the man accused of Trinity Bates’s murder. If this happened in a newspaper or on a major news website the editor would be at risk of going to jail. Update Wednesday 2.45pm : Facebook has published a statement about obscene content on the tribute pages to Elliott Fletcher and Trinity Bates on its website. It is printed in full below. We’re yet to hear from them. Facebook’s statement: penberthyd@newsltd.com.au (David Penberthy) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/five-questions-for-facebook-after-tribute-pages-defaced/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/five-questions-for-facebook-after-tribute-pages-defaced/#item2469 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 There is a lot of misinformation circulating about the Government’s ISP-level filtering proposal and Eliza Cussen was right to warn people they shouldn’t believe everything they hear or read (Top Ten Internet Filter Lies, 25 March 2010). Unfortunately her article repeated some of the misinformation and I’d like to outline the facts. The Government has always maintained there is no silver bullet when it comes to cyber safety and we have never said ISP-level filtering alone would help fight child pornography or keep children safe online. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/what-does-the-web-know-about-you/ This simple graphic illustrates one way the internet can be used to get an insight into a person, by analysing publicly available information associated with a name. I’ve chosen, for no particular reason, Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull. Through the rest of this post are similar profiles of a range of Australian public identities. You can enter your own details into the Personas tool here. If you feel uncomfortable watching the process of this tool scouring the web for information about you, that’s the idea. It was designed to show you have a publicly available profile which you cannot control. Developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, it’s intended to highlight not just how you are seen on the web, but “for the viewer to reflect on our current and future world, where digital histories are as important if not more important than oral histories.” penberthyd@newsltd.com.au (David Penberthy) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/what-does-the-web-know-about-you/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/what-does-the-web-know-about-you/#item1255 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 There is a lot of misinformation circulating about the Government’s ISP-level filtering proposal and Eliza Cussen was right to warn people they shouldn’t believe everything they hear or read (Top Ten Internet Filter Lies, 25 March 2010). Unfortunately her article repeated some of the misinformation and I’d like to outline the facts. The Government has always maintained there is no silver bullet when it comes to cyber safety and we have never said ISP-level filtering alone would help fight child pornography or keep children safe online. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/things-that-should-be-banned-from-the-web-for-a-day/ For the sake of marking a slightly unusual date in the calendar tomorrow, 09/09/09, there’s a campaign underway to rid the internet of cats for 24 hours. If that doesn’t strike you as a perfectly sensible idea, you’re probably reading this on a dial-up connection. Cats are to the web what tomatoes are to Italian cooking. One online magazine said earlier this year declared the internet was made of kittens. To a classically Catholic reaction of horror and amusement, I discovered this week there’s even a project underway to rewrite the Bible in kitteh, the imaginary moggie tongue which has some rigid conventions – “can I have” becomes “I can haz” and omnipotence comes in the form of “Ceiling Cat”, a meme stemming from photos of cats looking out of holes in the roof. penberthyd@newsltd.com.au (David Penberthy) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/things-that-should-be-banned-from-the-web-for-a-day/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/things-that-should-be-banned-from-the-web-for-a-day/#item1142 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 There is a lot of misinformation circulating about the Government’s ISP-level filtering proposal and Eliza Cussen was right to warn people they shouldn’t believe everything they hear or read (Top Ten Internet Filter Lies, 25 March 2010). Unfortunately her article repeated some of the misinformation and I’d like to outline the facts. The Government has always maintained there is no silver bullet when it comes to cyber safety and we have never said ISP-level filtering alone would help fight child pornography or keep children safe online. http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/six-million-australians-are-selling-their-lives-to-facebook/ I am a social media whore. That’s the point of it all right? There’s a lot you can know about me from what music I listen to, what concerts I’ve been to and yes, even occasionally what I just ate. There’s even a 12 second video somewhere of me dancing in a tutu to What a Feeling by Irene Cara.  All of which I chose to share across a number of social networks I belong to that include Blip.fm, Twitter and 12seconds.tv and I’m comfortable with that. And then there’s Facebook. penberthyd@newsltd.com.au (David Penberthy) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/six-million-australians-are-selling-their-lives-to-facebook/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/six-million-australians-are-selling-their-lives-to-facebook/#item960 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 There is a lot of misinformation circulating about the Government’s ISP-level filtering proposal and Eliza Cussen was right to warn people they shouldn’t believe everything they hear or read (Top Ten Internet Filter Lies, 25 March 2010). Unfortunately her article repeated some of the misinformation and I’d like to outline the facts. The Government has always maintained there is no silver bullet when it comes to cyber safety and we have never said ISP-level filtering alone would help fight child pornography or keep children safe online.