Social Issues

Magazine articles on the internet's impact on society, privacy, spam, hacking, scams, regulation.

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The Motley Fool October 11, 2004 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Bush's "Internets" The World Wide Web is shaping up huge in the 2004 presidential election.
InternetNews October 8, 2004 Roy Mark	FTC Pursues Former Spam King in Court The Federal Trade Commission filed its first spyware case Thursday against the man once known as the undisputed king of spam and the various companies he controls.
InternetNews October 8, 2004	House Toughens Spyware Penalties For the second time in three days, the U.S. House of Representatives has passed an anti-spyware bill, this time adding criminal penalties to tough civil provisions of legislation passed on Tuesday.
InternetNews October 5, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	Gates Chats Up DRM, Web Services Microsoft's chairman and chief software architect said the move to Web services could ease the Internet's security woes and that digital rights management can balance out piracy.
Reason October 2004 Michael Erard	Open Secrets How the U.S. government lost the drug war in cyberspace.
Reason October 2004 Hanah Metchis	Cleaning Up E-Mail The Anti-Spam Technical Alliance (ASTA) hopes to create methods to digitally sign content and make mail identity "spoofing" not just illegal but technologically impossible.
InternetNews October 4, 2004 Roy Mark	U.S. Launches New Anti-Piracy Campaign U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick says Internet and sophisticated duplication technology have taken piracy to unprecedented levels.
Financial Advisor October 2004 Mark Goldberg	The Last E-mail Ever Read E-mail's ease and versatility have led to our improper use of it, and we are quickly approaching the demise of the most powerful communication tool of our time. Here's what is undermining this great tool and jeopardizing its future.
InternetNews October 1, 2004 Erin Joyce	A Hobbled Anti-Spyware Law California has its first anti-spyware bill, but it doesn't do enough to terminate the growing use of spyware that logs your moves online. And don't expect to see much stronger legislation in Congress.
CFO October 1, 2004 Russ Banham	The Enemy Within When it comes to combating worms, Trojan horses, and viruses, technology alone is not enough. Human error can undo almost any firewall or safeguard. Yet in some cases the fixes are remarkably simple.
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