Social Issues

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

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InternetNews November 7, 2008 Kenneth Corbin	Craigslist Cracks Down on Illicit Sex Ads Classified site partners with state attorneys general to combat sex crimes, human trafficking.
Information Today November 6, 2008 Michael LoPresti	Global Network Initiative Seeks to Curb Censorship, Enable Freedom of Expression Three of the biggest corporate names in the online technology sector unveil a joint initiative to promote freedom of expression and privacy on the internet.
InternetNews November 5, 2008 Richard Adhikari	Spammers Latch on to Obama Victory President-elect Barack Obama's campaign leveraged social networking all the way to victory in last night's election. But Obama's online presence has attracted some problems, too.
Searcher Nov/Dec 2008 Paul Piper	Nets of Terror Terrorist activity on the Internet.
InternetNews October 31, 2008 Richard Adhikari	RSA Cracks Down on Legendary Sinowal Trojan Several financial institutions hit by the professionally maintained Trojan.
InternetNews October 30, 2008 Mike Elgan	The Internet's Newest Danger: Election Addiction The Internet enables other addicts to indulge in their addictions.
InternetNews October 30, 2008 Richard Adhikari	Spammers Hit MobileMe, Google Blogspots With new automated tools to help them, spammers are getting better at cracking CAPTCHA - a program that protects Web sites by generating and grading tests that humans can pass but computers cannot
InternetNews October 30, 2008 Richard Adhikari	Yahoo, Microsoft Ally to Tackle Lottery Scams With the threat of online scams rising as economic woes worsen, Yahoo and Microsoft look to clamp down on e-mail lottery hoaxes.
Search Engine Watch October 30, 2008 Erik Qualman	Trick or Tweet for CNN Social media is revolutionary. It allows CNN anchor Rick Sanchez to have a relationship with 30,000 people, and make a connection with them that can translate to other media.
InternetNews October 29, 2008 Richard Adhikari	Facebook Worm Redux Taps Google Sites Once again, social networking site Facebook has been hit by the Koobface worm, which has been used to attack it several times since July.
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