Social Issues

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

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PC World March 20, 2007 Stephen Manes	Software That Just Won't Shut Up Good luck trying to focus, with today's interrupting applications pressing for your attention.
The Motley Fool April 3, 2007 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Vote MySpace in '08 Hail to the cyberspace chief. The social-networking site will hold its own presidential primary come January. Has the Internet really come so far that it can alter the landscape of an election by being the first vocal read on the nation's pulse?
InternetNews April 2, 2007 Michael Hickins	Postini Gets Google's Blessing Postini today said it plans to provide security, administration and archiving services for Gmail, Google's on-demand e-mail service.
Bank Technology News March 2007 John Adams	Offline Fraud Continues to Flourish in an Online World Web fraud gets the headlines, but offline fraud accounts for a high percentage -- almost 70% -- of operating losses. It's a problem that IT pros ignore at their peril.
IEEE Spectrum April 2007 Paul McFedries	Social-isms Many predicted that the Internet would produce societal breakdown and individual meltdown, but a funny thing happened on the road to ruination: nothing much. Society as a whole remains intact, and a few cases of Internet addiction notwithstanding, online users seem no worse off.
The Motley Fool March 30, 2007 Mary Dalrymple	Fighting Identity Theft the IRS Way Lawmakers on the House of Representatives committee that oversees tax laws recently approved a bill with two items designed to help consumers avoid and cope with identity theft.
Registered Rep. March 29, 2007 Kevin Burke	Ex-Merrill Broker Nabbed in Online Gambling Sting The latest instance of gambling ribaldry involves a former Merrill Lynch broker who was among 17 people arrested for allegedly operating a $30 million online-gambling operation out of a strip club, according to a Reuters report.
The Motley Fool March 27, 2007 Tim Beyers	Lock Your Digital Door Computer users logged more than 270,000 cases of potential Internet-based fraud during 2006, resulting in $198.4 million in losses. Digital thieves, like the real kind, have just one interest: separating you from your money. Don't let them.
InternetNews March 26, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Russia's Latest Export To America: Malware They make it, they sell it, but we host it. Finjan finds America is cutting its own throat by hosting most of the malware on the Web.
The Motley Fool March 26, 2007 Mary Dalrymple	Buyer and Seller Beware Online auction fraud outranks all other Internet complaints. In general, most people who trade on online auction sites are trustworthy, but be on the lookout for the exceptions by heeding these cautions from the FBI and the FTC.
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