Internet Policies And Issues

In the ever-changing realm of the Internet, lawmakers face a steady stream of new areas potentially requiring regulation and oversight. This book is part of a series exploring the dynamic universe of the 21st century. Collected here are papers discussing the wide range of topics impacting Internet expansion, E-commerce, computerised voting, and cyber-security threats. Such a selection makes this volume important to developing an overview of the key issues in the dynamic and wired world.

Encyclopedia of Internet Policies and Issues organizes researchers from around the world in internet policy and related disciplines and maintains an up-to-date reference work for readers worldwide. Please review the Table of Contents for more in-depth information.

Hardware and Internet services, in and of themselves, are neutral elements of the Internet; it is how they are implemented by various countries that is repressive. Internet services are often tailored for deployment to specific countries; however, such tailoring is done to bring the company in line with the laws of that country, not with the intention of allowing the country to repress and censor its citizenry. This report provides info. regarding the role of U.S. and other foreign co. in facilitating Internet censorship by repressive regimes overseas. Sections: Exam¿n. of repressive policies in China and Iran; U.S. laws; U.S. policies to promote Internet freedom; and Private sector initiatives. Describes technol. for censorship, and circumvention of gov¿t. restrictions.

In the ever-changing realm of the Internet, lawmakers face a steady stream of new areas potentially requiring regulation and oversight. This book is part of a series exploring the dynamic universe of the 21st century. This volume of the series discusses topics on computer networks, the internet and green IT; remote automatic checking systems for multiple emergency lights via the internet; internet gambling; internet pharmacies; internet infrastructure in native communities; and China's censorship of the internet and social media.

In the ever-changing realm of the Internet, lawmakers face a steady stream of new areas potentially requiring regulation and oversight. This book is part of a series exploring the dynamic universe of the 21st century. This volume of the series discusses topics on cybersecurity, innovation and the internet economy; service overlay network use in enabling end-to-end QoS guarantees in the next generation internet; internet governance and the domain name system; state taxation of internet transactions, as well as laws and taxation for Amazon; internet policies in China; the application to the internet of the Americans with Disabilities Act; and a statement on the Cable Act at 20.

In the ever-changing realm of the Internet, lawmakers face a steady stream of new areas potentially requiring regulation and oversight. This book is part of a series exploring the dynamic universe of the 21st century. This volume of the series discusses topics on internet domain names; internet governance; ICANN's top level domain name program; global internet freedom; broadband internet access and the digital divide; China's censorship of the internet and social media; the Unlawful Internet Gambling Act; virtual currencies; and internet-based cognitive behaviour therapy for obsessive compulsive disorder

This book is part of a series exploring the dynamic universe of the Internet in the 21st century. Collected here are papers discussing a wide range of topics and issues impacting and relating to the Internet such as: text mining in electronic health records; search engine types, interfaces and use in proteomics; computer middleware theory and uses; using digital watermarking classifications and applications in analogue channels and IP networks and in identifying audio and video software products; instant messaging in primary schools and social motives; broadband internet access and the digital divide; net neutrality, and others. Such a selection makes this volume important to developing an overview of the key issues in the dynamic and wired world.