InternetNews.com: Online privacy bill raising 'grave' e-commerce concerns (of course, the industry would have similar concerns about a law against fraud)

Washington Post: High court overturns 'virtual' porn ban (also see CNN) -- Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition (Apr. 16, 2002) [alternate location]

AP (via Wired News): Web group OKs privacy standards (also see W3C's main P3P site)

CNET News.com: Web surfers brace for pop-up downloads

Wall Street Journal (via Politech): Microsoft's anti-Unix website runs, well, Unix; CNET News.com: Anti-Unix Web site on the fritz? (This week, Microsoft launched a web site intended to persuade people to switch from Unix to Microsoft's server software ... but it was quickly discovered that the site was running on the free Apache web server software, under an open-source version of Unix ... so an embarrassed Microsoft moved the site to a server running its own software ... which promptly crashed.)

Wired News: Anti-copy bill hits D.C. (S. 2048, introduced by Sen. Fritz Hollings, would ban computers and other electronic devices that don't include crippling technologies that prevent them from performing functions for which they were designed. Sen. Dianne Feinstein is a co-sponsor. This profoundly stupid bill is supported by the motion picture and recording industries, but just about everyone else is against it, including the IT and electronics industries and consumer groups. Let's hope it dies a quick and permanent death.)

Wired News: Google yanks anti-church sites (also see CNET News.com and update at Politech) (in response to complaints from the Church of Scientology, search engine Google has stopped providing links to anti-Scientology web sites, to comply with Digital Millennium Copyright Act -- among the sites that Google no longer links to are Xenu.net and clambake.org)

News.com: Companies taking desperate steps against spam

InternetNews.com: Blackhole list, facing legal challenge, closes (also see The Register and Wired News)

Scientific American: Copy that: Technology is making it harder for word thieves to earn outrageous fortunes