Social Issues

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

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InternetNews March 13, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner	QuickTime, iTunes Users at Risk (Again)? Apple QuickTime and iTunes users may yet again be at risk from a currently unpatched exploit. There is a pair of overflow conditions that could enable a malicious user to execute arbitrary code.
Fast Company March 2006	Full Text: The Future's So Bright... The former chief scientist at Xerox goes up against a California high-school senior on whether all this cool technology is bringing people together or keeping them apart.
InternetNews March 10, 2006 Jennifer Schiff	Hope (For Love Online) Springs Eternal New report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project finds romance, and security concerns thriving online.
The Motley Fool March 9, 2006 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Google Clicks to Fix Click fraud casts a dark cloud over the fast-growing realm of online advertising.
The Motley Fool March 8, 2006 Tim Beyers	Give It Up to Google With GDrive, Google's management offers a detailed strategy wherein everything digital will live online, under Google's big tent. If this is for real, and it catches fire, Google will know more about you than your Mom does. Investors, take note.
InternetNews March 7, 2006 David Miller	Google Wants Your Gigabytes Google is developing a service that will allow users to store every scrap of data from their computers' hard drives on Google's servers. The announcement sparked m.any questions about trust and privacy.
InternetNews March 7, 2006 Roy Mark	Feds Continue Spam Porno Crackdown A New Hampshire woman is facing up to 15 years in prison for violating the CAN SPAM Act after taking a Monday guilty plea to sending bulk pornographic spam e-mails.
InternetNews March 7, 2006 Roy Mark	Symantec Begins Wireless Security Initiative Symantec and the Internet Education Foundation launched a consumer wireless education effort Tuesday initially aimed at the country's 56 million wireless Internet users. The first phase of the campaign will focus on security issues.
PC Magazine March 1, 2006 Michael J. Miller	When the Government Knows Where You Search The Bush administration asked the major search engines for information on the most popular Web searches, as part of an effort to reinstate the Child Online Protection Act (COPA).
InternetNews March 3, 2006 Clint Boulton	The Open Source Answer to Microsoft InfoCard Project Higgins is a framework that will let computer users and businesses integrate identity, profile and relationship information across disparate systems, such as Windows, Linux and other environments.
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