Volume II

Issue : 6: March 18, 2004

• Protest Site Withstands Scrutiny under Anticybersquatting Legislation
• EC Data Protection Directive Working Party Critical of Canadian Airline Passenger Information Program
• U.S. Federal Communications Commission Releases VoIP Rulemaking Initiative
• Online Pharmacy Takes Federal Government to Court
• Spam Lawsuits Filed by U.S. Internet Providers Include Canadian Defendants
• RIAA Ordered to Sue "John Doe" Defendants Individually; Recording Companies Seek Copyright Fees from Chinese Karaoke Bars
• B.C. Introduces New Consumer Protection Bills
• Utah Passes First State Net Filtering Bill
• Information Broker Pays Settlement to Mother of Slain Girl
• The European Union Passes New Antipiracy Law

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Utah Passes First State Net Filtering Bill

The state legislature in Utah has passed a bill allowing for the filtering of Internet material available on publicly accessible computers. The state filtering bill, commonly known as HB 341, is modeled after the US federal Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) and is aimed at protecting children using public computers from gaining access to pornography, obscenity, and other material considered to be harmful to minors. The bill will mainly affect public libraries whose state funding may be discontinued, if they fail to implement the blocking of "harmful material" from their publicly accessible computers. The bill does however permit the proposed filtering technology to be disabled by library staff upon request from an adult user in order to facilitate research and other lawful activities by the adult user. It is expected that the cost of implementing the proposed measures will be assumed by the states' public libraries as no funding has been allocated for such implementation.

For more information, visit:
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA402566