Social Issues

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

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Fast Company September 2006 Josie Swindler	Mani Sivasubramanian: Spamming for Good An Indian pediatric heart surgeon and philanthropist's online marketing efforts help poor children receive care.
InternetNews September 8, 2006 Nicholas Carlson	FTC Nails Xanga With Record Fine Xanga let too many children pose as adults and now they have to pay for it.
Pharmaceutical Executive September 1, 2006 Mark Bard	Public Access The universe of online consumers is growing slower than ever. But more patients and physicians are using the Web to search for information about health and medicine.
InternetNews September 7, 2006 Nicholas Carlson	Facebook Faithful Protest Changes Many of the 9 million users that make up Facebook are unhappy that the site has changed a bit.
InternetNews September 6, 2006 Roy Mark	Spyware Operation Fined $2M A spyware operation that promised protection from viruses and spam but instead installed malware agreed today to pay a $2 million fine to settle Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charges of false and deceptive practices.
InternetNews September 5, 2006 Roy Mark	First U.S. Felony Spammer Loses Appeal The Virginia Court of Appeals Tuesday upheld the November 2004 conviction of Jeremy Jaynes, who was charged with three counts of using deceptive routing information in sending bulk commercial e-mail.
Wired September 2006 Charles C. Mann	Spam + Blogs = Trouble Splogs are the latest thing in online scams - and they could smother the Internet.
CRM September 1, 2006 Petouhoff & Johnson	How Much Is Your Customers' Trust Worth? With the profitability of data theft, there does not seem to be an end to the crime unless customer data protection becomes job number one. And while no company expects to have a data breach, the cost of preventing one may well be worth the price.
InternetNews August 31, 2006 Michael Hickins	Thank SaaS For Flexible Financing Competitive pressures from SaaS vendors and tightening IT budgets are forcing vendors to get creative.
InternetNews August 31, 2006 Roy Mark	1M Child Porn Images Net 15-Year Prison Sentence Robert M. Carey, a former National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration scientist, was sentenced to 15 years in prison Wednesday for producing and possessing more than one million online child pornography images.
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