Social Issues

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

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IEEE Spectrum May 2007 Robert W. Lucky	Who Are You? In all this confusion and obfuscation about identity, the question arises: On the Internet, who are you? Whether you like it or not, you are creating a resume on the Net -- one that will stay with you for a long time.
InternetNews April 27, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Spammers Are Due For A Surprise Unspam knows where you are. Here comes the lawsuit.
Bank Technology News April 2007 Rebecca Sausner	The New Red Menace Russian and eastern European hackers get all the glory these days, but their efforts to disrupt American financial services are a nuisance when compared to the nation-state threat that China's cyber army, and its rogue hackers, may pose.
Bank Technology News April 2007 Rebecca Sausner	The Taiwan Scenario The issue of China's cyber-warfare capabilities is intricately linked to the political status of Taiwan.
Bank Technology News April 2007 Holly Sraeel	In the U.S., Privacy Isn't Always Convenient, Or Wanted While banks nationwide wrestle to comply with state privacy and breach notification laws, the TJX phenomenon brings the issue of consumer privacy into sharper focus: If Americans are inconvenienced in any way, they'll forgo privacy.
Bank Technology News April 2007 Michael Dumiak	Security: Malware Grows Up, Gets Hard To Stop Malware is now coming in a variety of new strains, making it more difficult to locate and repel.
InternetNews April 27, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Spammers Find New Ways Around Filters Image-based spammers now use image hosting to get around image filters.
Bio-IT World April 2007 Christopher Frenz	The Case for Security in Bioinformatics Should developers or distributors of bioinformatics applications be required to make security considerations an essential element of their development or hosting process? While there have been no reports of widespread abuse of scientific computing resources to date, the potential does exist.
InternetNews April 20, 2007 Nicholas Carlson	Teens Are Protecting Themselves Online What, you thought the kids driving YouTube, MySpace, and Facebook wouldn't understand how to work privacy preferences?
InternetNews April 20, 2007 Roy Mark	Google-DoubleClick Raise Red Privacy Flags Online privacy groups filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission today seeking to block Google's $3.1 billion bid for online advertising firm DoubleClick unless the world's largest search engine agrees to greater consumer privacy protections.
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