Social Issues

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

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InternetNews April 6, 2009 Kenneth Corbin	New Bill Looks to Clamp Down on Mobile Spam Legislation seeks to curtail unsolicited text messages by broadening scope of CAN-SPAM Act and Do-Not-Call registry.
InternetNews April 3, 2009 David Needle	Gmail Gets a High Five A look back at Google's groundbreaking, five-year-old e-mail service.
PC Magazine April 1, 2009 Rhey & Albanesius	Are You on the Map? Virtual mapping programs, such as Google's Street View, have raised questions about privacy and security.
InternetNews April 1, 2009 Sean Michael Kerner	Conficker's Real Lesson: It Was All Your Fault Doomsday didn't come, but the risk remains because users don't know any better.
InternetNews April 1, 2009 Sean Michael Kerner	Conficker Strikes! Or Does It? It's April 1st, the day that the worm is supposed to do... something. So what's going to happen?
InternetNews March 31, 2009 Kenneth Corbin	Internet Crime Complaints Soared 33% in 2008 Driven by problems with e-commerce transactions and fraud, complaints skyrocketed last year.
Popular Mechanics March 31, 2009 Glenn Derene	How to Protect Yourself from Conficker, the April Fools' Day Worm How can an average PC user find out if his computer is infected with Conficker?
IEEE Spectrum April 2009 Paul McFedries	Information at Your Fingertips Information available at any time could be a dangerous thing.
Reason April 2009 Brian Doherty	Rating the Internet Britain's culture secretary, Andy Burnham, announces that he hopes to impose a ratings system for websites.
InternetNews March 31, 2009 Sean Michael Kerner	Conficker: Over 300,000 Domains Blocked, Millions Infected With mere hours to go before activation, the April Fool's Day worm isn't all hype -- and it's no joke, either.
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