Social Issues

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

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Salon.com October 22, 1999 Janelle Brown	Gambling on the Net -- or not? As the country undergoes an anti-gambling backlash, Congress again attempts to restrict wagering online.
Salon.com July 18, 2000 Kaitlin Quistgaard	Put Mom through, but not that marketing VP! Do you want an e-mail-reading software agent deciding who can interrupt you?
RootPrompt.org July 17, 2000	Calling the Cops I have had a lot of questions concerning the police and the cracker that I have written about in the Cracked! articles. With these questions in mind I have written this article that explains several incidents involving the police and system administrators and attempts to answer some of these questions....
Salon.com July 17, 2000 Janelle Brown	A Napster lawsuit laid to rest Rob Reid shelved Listen.com's legal action, but he says it'll take an act of Congress to resolve the digital music tug of war.
Searcher August 2000 Josh Duberman & Michael Beaudet	Privacy Perspectives for Online Searchers: Confidentiality with Confidence This article presents some of the issues and questions involved in online privacy from the information professional's perspective. We offer it as a resource for making more informed decisions in this rapidly changing area.
Searcher August 2000 Barbara Quint	Searcher's Voice: When More is Less The cure for "wrong" information is more information. Look around and see if I'm not right. In the e-commerce arena, economists call "perfect information" a key factor in producing a perfect market.
Salon.com July 13, 2000 Damien Cave	Jailhouse Net Inmates with e-mail? It could happen at some state prisons experimenting with technology behind bars.
IDB America May/Jun 2000 Peter Bate	Who gains in the Internet age? As it eagerly embraces new technologies, Latin America also worries about competition and a growing digital divide
Salon.com July 11, 2000 Simson Garfinkel	Can a labeling system protect your privacy? One good look at the White House's implementation of P3P throws into question the value of the whole privacy initiative.
Salon.com July 7, 2000 Eric Boehlert	Napster death match, Round 3 Fending off a life-threatening court injunction, file-swapping phenom Napster insists it has done nothing wrong.
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