Social Issues

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

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InternetNews April 11, 2005 Tim Gray	Americans Learning to Live With Spam Agita E-mail users say they are more accepting of spam. Doesn't make it less painful though.
InternetNews April 8, 2005 Tim Gray	Gates Wants to Can Spam -- Fast Microsoft founder and chief software architect continues to push for eradication of spam.
InternetNews April 8, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Blogging Without Getting Burned As the public rushes to the blogosphere, employers and employees have to figure out what's right -- and what's stupid.
InternetNews April 7, 2005 Roy Mark	U.S. Wins Hand in Gambling Feud The World Trade Organization sides with the U.S. in its online gambling dispute with Antigua.
InternetNews April 7, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner	Microsoft System Tracks Pedophiles Launched in Canada and developed with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the system will eventually go global to nab child predators.
Inc. April 2005 Lora Kolodny	Seeing the iPod as a Security Threat As the popularity, storage capacity, and connectivity of gadgets like the iPod increase, experts say, so will the use of such devices to perpetrate computer crimes at work. But small businesses may may a built-in advantage against such threats.
InternetNews April 6, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner	Report: IM Threats All The Rage The first-quarter report by the IMlogic Threat Center says attack increase will likely continue.
Search Engine Watch April 6, 2005 Chris Sherman	Playing with Kids' Search Engines Tips on enabling porn filters for major search engines. And a link to just-updated listings and reviews of search engines for kids.
The Motley Fool April 5, 2005 Tim Beyers	Would You Pay for Safe IM? Security holes in instant messaging may yield profits in unexpected places.
InternetNews April 1, 2005 Roy Mark	Diet Patch Spammers Settle With FTC Court rejects their claim that only affiliate marketers should be held responsible.
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