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Globe & Mail : Ontario Ombudsman seeks powers to probe child agencies and more

Source: theglobeandmail.com

Ontario Ombudsman André Marin is calling on Premier Dalton McGuinty to remove the "shackles" that prevent his office from helping the province's most vulnerable citizens by expanding his oversight powers beyond the government itself.

Children in danger: Stop the violence

Source: alertnet.org

-- Africa's prospects for attaining peace risk being undermined unless action is taken to reel in the horrific violence inflicted on the continent's children, according to the UN children's agency, UNICEF.

Mother wins fight to get her baby back

Source: thescotsman.scotsman.com

-- A Sheriff has condemned social workers who removed a newborn baby from her mother only minutes after the child's umbilical cord was cut.

Google must give feds limited access to records

Source: news.com.com

In a move that alleviates some privacy concerns, a federal judge granted part of a Justice Department request for Google search data but said users' search queries were off-limits.

YouTube Pulls Some Porn, Bans Children

Source: thinkandask.com

-- There is nothing worse for an Internet startup than "a firestorm of bad press," according to an employee at YouTube.com.

Got a Fetish? Google YouTube

Source: thinkandask.com

-- Splashing into fountains or pools on a whim as lovers or children do, or removing your shoes in public may not seem reason enough to grab a video camera and click 'record,' unless the filmmaker's eye has a motive.

DOJ Rejects Google’s Privacy Concern, Claims No Violation

Source: playfuls.com

Although Google can be commended for their struggle, it looks like the DOJ will get the information it wants by ordering Google to first remove personal information from the records held in order to attempt to revive an online child protection law that was blocked by the Supreme C