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The Motley Fool January 23, 2006 Alyce Lomax	Google vs. the Government "Don't be evil" comes into play as the government wants a piece of Google's data. If the Department of Justice gets what it wants, it will be a blow against privacy on the Internet -- and of serious concern for Google investors.
InternetNews January 20, 2006 Susan Kuchinskas	Search, COPA and Dealing With The Feds In the fall of 2005, the U.S. Department of Justice issued subpoenas to the top four search engines, in hopes of figuring out what people are searching for and what they're finding.
InternetNews January 20, 2006 Roy Mark	FBI: Adequate Laws Exist to Combat Child Porno The FBI told a senate panel Thursday afternoon no more new laws are needed to deal with online child pornography, insisting existing prohibitions are more than adequate to prosecute kiddie porn purveyors.
PC Magazine January 18, 2006 Ryan Naraine	IE Flaw Exposes Google Desktop A design flaw in Internet Explorer could give malicious hackers an easy way to use Google Desktop to hijack user information.
PC Magazine January 18, 2006 Neil J. Rubenking	Who Has a Virus? If your e-mail account has received numerous "mail rejected" notifications for messages that you never sent, this generally doesn't indicate that you've got a virus. However, there's no way to block the flood of rejection messages.
ifeminists January 18, 2006 Wendy McElroy	Does New Cyberstalking Law Criminalize Free Expression? Preventing Cyberstalking is a hastily written, bad law that was tacked onto a popular bill. Section 113 of the Violence Against Women Act may seek to protect against real threats or violence but its language is so vague as to endanger much broader political discussion.
CFO January 1, 2006 John McPartlin	Hackers Find Backers Large organizations should prepare themselves for more-clever and more-targeted attacks against their security infrastructures this year. Computer crime is now a game for professionals. Are companies prepared to respond?
The Motley Fool January 13, 2006 Rich Smith	"AOL Hurt My Feelings" This "groundbreaking" chatroom lawsuit looks like a loser -- Time Warner investors have little to fear from it.
InternetNews January 11, 2006 Erin Joyce	Gray Matters in 'Annoying' e-Mail Law The "annoying e-mail" law has been generating discussion on some blogs the past few days.
InternetNews January 10, 2006 Roy Mark	'Annoying e-Mail' Law Stirs Blogosphere A new law extending telephone harassment prohibitions and penalties to anonymous e-mails and Voice over IP calls has raised nary a peep among civil liberty groups and the legal community.
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