Social Issues

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

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InternetNews June 20, 2007 Susan Kuchinskas	Malware on The Tube The newest wave of Trojans is coming to you on YouTube - and other Web sites.
PC Magazine June 20, 2007	How Web Ads Follow You How ads give you ads based on your Web surfing behavior.
PC Magazine June 20, 2007 John C. Dvorak	Relevance Ad Fad Today's advertisers try to trick us into buying when we might not want to buy. This is acceptable up to a point, and we've passed that point.
PC Magazine June 20, 2007 Dan Costa	Yes, I Spy on My Kid As far as I'm concerned, locating your kids is a killer app. I have my son's best interests at heart. But I have a big problem with warrantless searches.
PC Magazine June 20, 2007 Larry Seltzer	Beware Windows Hactivation Threat A new Trojan horse masquerading as a Windows security check is wreaking havoc on PCs. Find out how you can keep your system safe.
InternetNews June 19, 2007 Roy Mark	Want My E-Mail? Get a Warrant Appeals panel rules government abused Stored Communications Act to unlawfully seize e-mail.
InternetNews June 18, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Massive Web Exploit Emerges One of the largest Web site exploits/compromises ever has hit the Web, with more than 10,000 compromised computers redirecting unsuspecting visitors to sites hosting malicious software payloads.
Scientific American July 2007 Chip Walter	A Little Privacy, Please Computer scientist Latanya Sweeney helps to save confidentiality with "anonymizing" programs, "deidentifiers" and other clever algorithms. Whether they are enough, however, is another question.
InternetNews June 15, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Four Bot Herders Get Put Out To Pasture Your spam filters have ever so slightly less work to do today, thanks to several arrests of bot herders by the FBI.
InternetNews June 12, 2007 Nicholas Carlson	Google Shortens Hold Time on User Data From now on, or at least until another government complains, Google will anonymize its search server logs after 18 months. The company made the announcement this week in response to another round of European Union objections.
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