Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1997 > Politics New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Small-Time Spammer Slapped with Suit - Texas Net activists sue a San Diego student in a unique case that targets the false return email address as the principal legal issue. [Wired News]   Social Insecurity on the Web - The Social Security Administration is trying to give wage earners easier access to their lifetime pay history. Critics say the access is much too easy. [Wired News]   Social Security Ripple: A Privacy CDA? - In the wake of the storm that blew up over potentially insecure data on the Social Security Web site, some fear that Congress will try to bludgeon the privacy issue into submission. [Wired News]   Social Security Site Not Out of the Woods Yet - The chairman of the House panel that oversees the agency wants Congress to get a chance to take a look at a revamped account-holder Web site before it goes online. [Wired News]   Social Security Site Shut Down - The agency puts its Web info service into retirement after a rash of criticism about privacy breaches. [Wired News]   Social Security Unveils New Online Data Plan - Burned by a well-intentioned but insecure effort to put account holders' earnings and benefit data online, the agency comes back with a modest plan that carries a modicum more privacy protection. [Wired News]   Software Giant May Attend Nader Confab - Although not thrilled about what it believes might be a two-day bashing session, Microsoft is weighing showing its face in what could indeed be an unfriendly crowd. [Wired News]   South Korea Blacks Out GeoCities - Seoul is alarmed by a Web page that celebrates the ideology of its archenemy to the north - the late Kim Il-Sung. [Wired News]   Southern Africa Trying to Climb Online - Generally considered the poorest region of the poorest continent, sub-Saharan Africa is getting wired. And although technology is not making poverty go away, it may be planting the seeds of a new order. [Wired News]   Spam King Wins Back Net Service - Sanford Wallace gets a federal judge to order his backbone provider to restore his service after taking Cyber Promotions down for an 'outstanding security issue.' [Wired News]   Spam-Control Project Loses a Partner - Experian, part of a three-firm consortium setting up a global opt-in system for handling junk email, quits the effort after a blowup over misuse of the name of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. [Wired News]   Spamming Lawyer Disbarred - Laurence Canter, notorious for spamming listservs and Usenet to promote his legal practice, loses his license to practice in Tennessee. Those who loathe junk email hope similar deserts are in store for others. [Wired News]   Street Cred: Stories From the Front Line - The Privacy Journal explores shocking real-life accounts of privacy invasion showing the devastation these invasions have on their victims. [Wired News]   Street Cred: Unplugging State Science - In his new book, The Economic Laws of Scientific Research, Terence Kealey argues the benefits of state-subsidized scientific research. [Wired News]   Subjective Objectivity - The public wants the media to have a heart, but at the same time not to pick sides or make value judgments. The public wants an unbiased presentation of all the facts, but has no time to read minutiae. [Wired News]   Suit Asks US Info Agency to Cough It Up - Several Nader groups are suing to force the United States Information Agency to make government foreign-policy information available to Americans. [Wired News]   Sun, Feds Headed for Crypto Showdown? - By setting up a foreign marketing deal for encryption software much stronger than that currently approved by the Commerce Department, Sun Microsystems has challenged the government to a fight over its code-export policy. [Wired News]   Surfing the Himalayas? - The Chinese government has developed a code to transcribe Tibetan for use over the Internet. But so far, accessing the Web in Tibetan remains an extreme sport. [Wired News]   Survey Hits Web Sites for Weak Privacy Policies - A survey says that about half of the most popular sites collect personal information from users, often without their knowledge. [Wired News]   TV Copyright Hearings: 'Let Market Rule' - The US Copyright Office holds hearings on the future of the rules that will govern satellite, cable, and broadcast TV. Lots is at stake for everyone involved. [Wired News]     [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 ] Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.   Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

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