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- The Alter Ego Advantage: Why Nom de Guerre by Populus Reduces Online Vulnerability September 29th 2006
- Lies, More Lies, and Google July 28th 2006
- Big Brother Wants You! June 7th 2006
- The Browser Hordes: Why Microsoft’s Search Engine Box Will Spark the Next Browser War May 2nd 2006
- Segregating Smut: How a Bill Isolating Adult Content Affects E-Marketing March 28th 2006
Michael H. Sproule
The Alter Ego Advantage: Why Nom de Guerre by Populus Reduces Online Vulnerability
Everyone needs a nom de guerre. While we enjoy the ability to interact more directly with others, an increasingly connected world makes it harder to maintain a sphere of personal, protected space. We have become vulnerable to exposure in surprising ways illustrated by some recent events: • Users [...] More...
Lies, More Lies, and Google
An interesting case is winding its way through U.S. District Court in California. KinderStart is a search engine service aimed at young children. KinderStart has sued Google, alleging that Google has hurt KinderStart’s business by giving its website a low ranking in Google’s search results. KinderStart claims that Google is [...] More...
Big Brother Wants You!
The latest news from the Justice Department is Uncle Sam wants you! to enlist in the War against Terror. More accurately perhaps, the government wants your data, and if you don’t give it up voluntarily, then they’ll come get it. For law enforcement, our digital age is a double-edge sword. On [...] More...
The Browser Hordes: Why Microsoft’s Search Engine Box Will Spark the Next Browser War
2006 will see the launch of a new war over web browsers or, more precisely, a war over a search-engine search box. For the first time, Microsoft will launch a browser, Internet Explorer 7, that incorporates a search box directly into the menu interface. Already, Microsoft, with its own MSN [...] More...
Segregating Smut: How a Bill Isolating Adult Content Affects E-Marketing
Two U.S. Senators have just introduced a new bill, the Cyber Safety for Kids Act, intended to protect children from harmful material. As with prior laws regulating adult content online, the new bill from Sen. Max Baucus and Sen. Mark Pryor raises interesting questions about the regulation of speech on [...] More...
The Internet in the Public Interest
Major Internet service providers, America Online and Yahoo!, have announced plans to begin charging large volume emailers for the privilege of sending email to the service providers’ customers. Not surprisingly, the plans are controversial. There is something about the idea of charging for sending email, even spam that seems to run [...] More...
Repeating History: Internet Marketing Laws and Outlaws
Karl Marx is said to have once remarked, “History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.” In the history of Internet marketing we’ve clearly arrived at the farcical stage of the game. Almost as soon as any new technology has arrived on the Internet, marketers have been quick to exploit [...] More...
Adware Kills People
There’s new news in the struggle against spyware: The TRUSTe organization recently announced a new initiative directed at adware, called the Trusted Download Certification Program. By partnering with Yahoo!, AOL and others, TRUSTe aims to stamp out abusive adware practices, particularly the secretive installation of adware programs on users’ desktops. In [...] More...
The Erosion of Privacy: How to Protect Consumers from Big Brother
The controversy of the day in Washington revolves around the White House ordering the National Security Agency to step up tapping of communications among persons and organizations suspected of involvement in attacks on the United States. Critics claim the tapping to be an unconstitutional violation of citizens’ protections against unreasonable [...] More...
What to Do About Click-Fraud?
A number of Internet search engines, including all the big ones, have recently been named defendants in class action suits, now pending in California and Arkansas, alleging that the search companies are profiting from “click-fraud.” With thousands of plaintiffs potentially involved in these suits, the search engines could now easily [...] More...
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