Social Issues

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

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InternetNews September 15, 2005 Clint Boulton	RIAA Puts More File-sharing Firms On Notice The recording agency sends cease-and-desist letters to seven file sharing proprietors in the wake of its Grokster victory.
PC Magazine September 14, 2005 Sebastian Rupley	Rough Justice for Spammers America Online has turned the tables on a spammer who lost a legal case to the company. Microsoft agreed to a $7 million settlement with one of the top spammers in the world.
PC Magazine September 14, 2005 Ryan Naraine	ID Theft Ring Discovered Researchers have stumbled on what appears to be a massive identity-theft ring hijacking confidential data from millions of infected computers.
BusinessWeek September 26, 2005 Ben Elgin	For Yahoo, Mistrust Is Popping Up Yahoo! could do more to fix adware problems.
InternetNews September 15, 2005 Tim Gray	Paris Hilton's Hacker Jailed The juvenile accused of making bomb threats and stealing celebrity contact information is sentenced.
Search Engine Watch September 15, 2005 Chris Sherman	Search as the New Great Game The Search is a broad look at both the history of the web search industry, especially Google, and the profound effects and changes it is having on our social lives. The book is insightful and well worth a read.
PC World October 2005 Scott Spanbauer	Easy Ways to Keep the Internet Safe for All Ages Plan ahead to protect your kids online -- use parental controls, browser security tweaks, and other tools. Both software and common sense approaches are discussed.
PC World October 2005 Andrew Brandt	Phishing Anxiety May Make You Miss Messages Swarms of bogus electronic missives deter people from accepting legitimate e-mail.
Inc. September 2005 Alison Stein Wellner	Lost in Translation Thanks to e-mail, BlackBerrys, and text messaging, the face-to-face encounter is becoming a dying art. Here's why you should revive it.
InternetNews September 2, 2005 Jim Wagner	Suckers For Spam Despite more awareness of the problem, people are still getting lured into Internet fraud.
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