Social Issues

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

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Search Engine Watch January 7, 2009 Kevin Ryan	Forget Tibet; Free the Content In China, search engines are responsible for the content to which they provide links. This means anytime the Chinese government decides that a certain type of content isn't worthy of its people, they can tell search engines not to list them.
InternetNews January 6, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Spammers Help Push Google to Dubious Milestone Google makes top 10 list for spam abuses.
InternetNews January 6, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Fake Celeb Profiles in Spam Attacks Want to see "more" of your favorite actor or pop star? Bad idea.
InternetNews January 5, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Phishers Hit Twitter Users Obama, Britney Spears and Bill O'Reilly among reported victims of phony Twitter messages that also included an iPhone scam.
IEEE Spectrum January 2009 Robert W. Lucky	To Twitter Or Not to Twitter? Is the networking phenomenon a great revolution in social consciousness, or is it just a lot of pointless, incessant messages?
InternetNews December 24, 2008 Richard Adhikari	RBS WorldPay Data Breach Hits 1.5 Million A hacker got into the computer systems of electronic payment processing services provider RBS WorldPay, compromising more than a million customers' records.
InternetNews December 23, 2008 Richard Adhikari	New E-holiday Card Virus Surfaces A new worm has emerged that could be much worse than the notorious Storm worm, which ruled the botnet world for nearly two years.
InternetNews December 23, 2008 Richard Adhikari	Subject Lines Spammers Can't Resist Any time you see an e-mail with one of these subject lines, delete it without opening if you want to stay safe.
Entrepreneur January 2009 Amanda C. Kooser	Signing On Made Simple OpenID reduces the number of passwords and user names you need.
Information Today December 18, 2008 Marydee Ojala	Censorship and Wikipedia--An Instructive Tale What if, one fine morning, you went to your favorite Wikipedia page only to see a "404 page not found" error message?
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