Unions Pushing to Organize Thousands of Amazon.com Workers

The labor movement has begun a broad campaign to unionize thousands of workers at Amazon.com, New York Times (may require free registration to view), November 23, 2000.

Carnivore Web Wiretap Report Released

Roundup of news coverage from Wired and New York Times, November 22, 2000.

Software to Track E-Mail Raises Privacy Concerns

Marketers call them pixel tags and say they are used to gauge the success of e-mail campaigns, while privacy advocates prefer a more ominous name - Web bugs, New York Times, November 22, 2000.

Initiative Brings Internet to Gaeltacht Regions

Five mobile Internet access units will be travelling around Ireland to 80 different locations, to give people, who haven't previously used new technology, a chance to use PCs and the Internet for the first time, ElectricNews.net, November 21, 2000.

AOL Boots Gay Newspaper Site

According to a newsletter for gay and lesbian press professionals, America Online booted a web site for Memphis-based publication The Triangle Journal News, PressPassQ, November 17, 2000.

PlanetOut and Gay.com to Merge

The Internet's two biggest LGBT players are coming together in a marriage that executives say will please investors and consumers, PlanetOut Partners, PlanetOut, and Gay.com releases plus AP, Reuters, PlanetOut, Bay Area Reporter, Salon.com, and Philadelphia Gay News reports, November 15 - December 28, 2000

Blind Ballots: Web Sites of U.S. Political Candidates Censored by Censorware

Web sites of numerous politicians were found to be blocked by filtering software, which is used in tens of thousands of schools and libraries across the country, Peacefire.org, November 7, 2000

GOP.org Web Site Hacked

Just hours before the polls opened on Tuesday, a computer intruder defaced the Republican National Committee’s Web site with a pro-Al Gore message, MSNBC.com and other media, November 6-8, 2000

F.T.C. Review of AOL Deal in Final Stage

After months of negotiations, the antitrust review of the America Online and Time Warner merger now enters an endgame that, no matter its outcome, seems certain to set the government's competition policies for the largest Internet and telecommunications players for years to come, New York Times, November 6, 2000

Copyright Office Issues Unusual Rule

The US Copyright Office said that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, permits people in certain circumstances to break through the technological barriers that safeguard lists of blocked Web sites maintained by many types of filtering software, New York Times, November 3, 2000.

Free School Computers Withdrawn

ZapMe's model of free computers for schools may fail due to commercial intrusion into schools, New York Times, November 2, 2000.

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