Social Issues

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

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Fast Company September 14, 2011 Chris Faraone	Sharing Data Makes For Truly Public Transit When cities release bus and train data, the benefits are many.
Information Today September 12, 2011	W3C Launches Work on 'Do Not Track' Standards for the Web The Tracking Protection Working Group will create standards for "Do Not Track" technology by building consensus among a broad set of stakeholders, including browser vendors, content providers, advertisement networks, search engines, and experts in policy, privacy, and consumer protection.
AskMen.com Dave Golokhov	STD Email Connecting with an ex to tell them you have an STD is never an easy call to make. That's why the British Columbia government is teaming with website inSPOT to let you send an anonymous email instead.
IEEE Spectrum August 2011 Joel B. Predd	Could Shakespeare Have Tweeted Hamlet? Would a prose by any other character limit spell as sweet?
The Motley Fool July 14, 2011 Gardner & Moser	A Hero's Views on Doing Good Part 4 of our interview with WWII hero Louis Zamperini.
National Defense August 2011 Beidel & Magnuson	Government, Military Face Severe Shortage Of Cybersecurity Experts There is an acute shortage of Internet security experts in the government, and no large pool of insourced or outsourced applicants waiting in the wings to join the fight.
National Defense August 2011 Eric Beidel	Protectors of Critical Networks Look Within For Vulnerabilities The hacker is only one ingredient in a network intrusion. While leaders are rightly concerned about outsiders breaking into their networks, they also realize that their own employees may have as much to do with the next breach as an outsider.
The Motley Fool July 10, 2011 Kurt Bakke	Google+: And You Thought Facebook Is a Privacy Nightmare Google could be setting itself up for massive lawsuits.
American Journal of Nursing July 2011 Dowdell et al.	Original Research: Online Social Networking Patterns Among Adolescents, Young Adults, and Sexual Offenders The use of online social networks like Facebook continues to increase rapidly among all age groups and segments of our society, presenting new opportunities for the exchange of sexual information as well as unsafe encounters.
IEEE Spectrum July 2011 David Kushner	The Autistic Hacker Gary McKinnon hacked thousands of government computers
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