Social Issues

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

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PC World October 9, 2002 Michelle Madigan	Report Card on the Patriot Act In its first year, the controversial Patriot Act -- which gives federal investigators unprecedented access to Americans' online communications -- has been effective while respecting privacy, federal officials say. Privacy watchdogs say failures and problems aren't publicized.
ONLINE Sep/Oct 2002 Marydee Ojala	Deep Thinking Eludes Deep Linking Detractors Just when I thought the deep linking legal controversies had been conquered, two European courts revived the issues.
New Architect November 2002 Lincoln D. Stein	Keep Your Laws Off My Media Player The Hollings Act, which would require manufacturers to incorporate FCC-approved copyright protection standards into any device that can reproduce digital content, is too broad.
PC World November 2002 Dylan F. Tweney	Hollywood vs. Your PC Movie and music moguls are hopping mad over the new technologies that are transforming digital entertainment. Washington is listening. what's at risk? Your ability to enjoy DVDs and CDs you've bought, your privacy -- even your control over your PC.
Salon.com October 9, 2002 Richard Koman	Riding along with the Internet Bookmobile Angered by a law that extends copyright terms for 20 years, a crusader named Brewster Kahle wants to use the Internet to make books available to everyone.
Knowledge@Wharton	Peer-to-Peer Music Trading: Good Publicity or Bad Precedent? Advance publicity is key to record albums' success, states Wharton marketing professor Peter Fader -- and by trying to stamp out peer-to-peer music trading, record companies are shooting themselves in the foot.
PC World October 7, 2002 Michelle Madigan	Privacy Concerns Pushed to Front Lines Feds must explore, explain any effect on privacy by new policies or practices, under pending legislation.
PC World October 3, 2002 Joris Evers	Windows Help Tool Contains Critical Flaw Security hole could allow an attacker to gain control of a user's PC, Microsoft warns.
PC World October 1, 2002 Paul Roberts	New E-Mail Virus Targets Windows, IE Virus is attached to e-mail messages with a wide variety of subject lines, making it harder for antivirus apps to detect.
Salon.com October 2, 2002 Katharine Mieszkowski	The Ryze surprise A fast-growing business networking site riles some members by -- gasp! -- laying claim to their intellectual property.
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