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For example, thanks to ICANN, a person in Cuba will see the same Website as someone in Belarus. ICANN also has
some Internet policy powers. It can remove Web sites from the Internet. It also decides who can sell and list domain
names.
The European Union, China, Brazil, India and other countries want the United States to release at least some control
over the World Wide Web. They believe that the Internet is an international resource that should be
supervised
by
the United Nations or some other independent organization. The US Administration disagrees. It says that ICANN is
the best way to
guarantee
an open, secure and dependable online environment. Heavy governmental controls
would
suppress
Internet growth and development.
Governments, businesses and organizations also want to discuss public policy issues, including Internet crime,
junk
mail
and viruses. Most Internet communication is business-to-business as buying and selling goods and services over
the Internet is growing around the world. However, there are risks involved with this e-commerce.
For example, it was estimated that more than fifty-two thousand million dollars in goods and services were
purchased a year through
identity theft
. Identity thieves steal personal information from Americans. They collect
Social Security numbers, banking records and
telephone numbers
. They use this information to request loans, or to
get credit cards in the name of the victim.
Identity thieves often use
computer viruses
to collect a victim's personal information. They may also use
spyware
.
These are programs that are loaded onto a computer without the owner's knowledge.
Spyware
follows the
computer
user
's online activities. Identity thieves also use another
method called
Internet "
phishing
." These e-
mail
messages
attempt to collect an Internet user's personal information, such as
credit card
numbers, by acting like a real
business.
Advertisers interested in selling products over the Internet may use
adware
to identify possible buyers.
Adware
is a
software program sent with free files or programs to a computer. Once loaded onto a computer,
adware
can collect
information about a person's interests.
Adware
can use this information to provide targeted sales messages to
the
computer user
.
Google has also started its own project. The company has put thousands of library books and documents on the
Internet. Google gave three million dollars to help the United States Library of Congress create a World Digital
Library on the Web. This will be a collection of rare books, documents, maps and other materials from America's
library and other national libraries. The head of the Library of Congress says people will be able to learn about other
cultures without traveling farther than the nearest computer.
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