Last week, two interesting things happened on the filtering front. Firstly, the NetSafe group held a meeting which included presentations from the DIA and InternetNZ about how the DIA’s filter might impact safety. Two days later, Tv3 ran a story about the results of the filter trial (which they had obtained through an Official Information Act Request) [...]

The activation of a high level Child Abuse Imagery filter almost certainly changes the cyber safety landscape. In our role as cyber safety community coordinator, we need to get a better handle around what those changes will actually be.

A few weeks ago NetSafe attended CORE Education’s annual conference for educators, Ulearn 09, held down in Christchurch.
Our approach this year was a little bit different – we actively sought out people already exploring the boundaries of cybersafety in schools and listened to how they are working to create New Zealand’s digital citizens of the [...]

Sage advice from my dad on how regular communication is critical to a healthy relationship. Timely as at NetSafe we’re embracing web 2.0 as a way to communicate with you about where we’re at now – and after ULearn09 we’re thinking many people probably don’t know our current position on promoting the benefits of the net, challenging protectionist policy, and on championing the theory and practice of digital citizenship. So pull up a chair and lets have a deep and meaningful…

Two filtering articles from either camp get me thinking about controlling web content via filters. Can we, and should we?

Recently, a few internet commentators have noticed this internet filtering project at the DIA. The DIA whose responsibilities include making sure that New Zealand’s censorship legislation is enforced have been running a trial of a very high level filtering system. The aim of this filter is to block access to Child sexual abuse images .
This has generated some [...]