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Pentagon Reveals News Correction Unit
No Passport For Britons Refusing Mass Surveillance
Lip-Reading Surveillance Cameras
Chinese Govt Limits Kids to 3hrs of Online Gaming
VeriChip Implants 222 People With RFID
US Policy Would Allow Government Access to Any Email
Airships to Patrol Venezuela's Skies
To Curb Truancy, Dallas Tries Electronic Monitoring
Homeland Security's Tech Wonders
Video Surveillance Identifies Threat Patterns
Bush Claims Mail Can Be Opened Without Warrant
FBI To Spend $1B Expanding Fingerprint Database
Germany Searches Credit Cards For Child Porn Payments
ISP Tracking Legislation Hits the House
In Soviet US, Comcast Watches YOU
MS Seeks Patent For Repossessing School Computers
The Pentagon Wants a 'TiVo' to Watch You
UK Gov't Proposes Massive Internet Snooping, Data Storage
Audit Finds FBI Abused Patriot Act
China's All-Seeing Eye
DHS Allowed To Take Laptops Indefinitely
Gilmore Loses Airport ID Case
New York Plans Surveillance Veil For Downtown
Police Given Access to Congestion-Charge Cameras
US Visitor Fingerprints To Be (Perhaps) Stored by FBI
CCTVs Don't Work in the UK
China To Deploy World's Largest People Tracking Network
DHS Wants Master Key for DNS
Senator Proposes to Monitor All P2P Traffic for Illegal Files
UK Police Want DNA of 'Potential Offenders'
Canadian Bill C-416 to Require Wiretapping
FBI Says Paper Trails Are Optional
Feds Check Credit Reports Without a Subpoena
New Plan In UK For "Big Brother" Database
Surveillance Cameras Get Smarter
Big Brother Really Is Watching Us All
National Intelligence Director Seeks Expansion of Spy Powers
MS Wants To Identify All Web Surfers
Students In UK Tracked With RFID Chips
Sweden Admits Tapping Citizens' Phones for Decades
Total Phone and Email Database Proposed In UK
Bioethics Group Raises DNA Database Concerns
Mind How You Walk - Someone is Watching
NYC 911 to Accept Cellphone Pics and Video
UK Has Become a "Surveillance Society"
UK Taps 439,000 Phones, Now Wants To Monitor MPs
US Courts Consider Legality of Laptop Inspection
US Wants Courts to OK Warrantless Email Snooping
AT&T Says Spying Is Too Secret For Courts
Europe Moves To Track Phone and Net Use
FBI Wants Authority To Filter Net Backbone
Judge Says, Record DNA of Everyone In the UK
Leaked Government Doc Reveals UK ID "Coercion" Plans
Mandatory Keyloggers in Mumbai's Cyber Cafes
Political Bloggers May Be Forced to Register
UK's Blair Dismisses Online Anti ID-Card Petition
US To Employ Overhead Spying Domestically
Widespread Spying Preceded '04 GOP Convention
All US Border Crossings Now Require A 'Terrorist Risk Profile'
"Mobile Plate Hunter" Cameras Raise Questions
A Guardian Angel In Your Cell Phone
Aerial Drones To Help Cops In Miami
Beijing Police To Launch Animated Web Patrols
Bugged Canadian Coins?
China Creates Massive Online ID Database
Cybercrime Treaty — Hidden Costs For All
DHS To Share Spy Satellite Data Over the US
Dodd, Feingold To Try and Filibuster Immunity Bill
Electronic Transaction Reporting Slipped Into Senate Bill
FBI Lied To Support Need For PATRIOT Act Expansion
FBI Remotely Installs Spyware to Trace Bomb Threat
FBI Seeks To Restrict University Student Freedoms
Home Science Under Attack In Massachusetts
Hotel Connectivity Provider SuperClick Tracks You
House Approves Warrantless Wiretapping Extension
ISPs To Filter Traffic For Copyright Holders?
Israel Moves Toward a National Biometric Database
McCain Supports Warrantless Domestic Surveillance
NSF-Funded "Dark Web" to Battle Terrorists
New NSA-Approved Encryption Standard May Contain Backdoor
PC Repair In Texas Now Requires a PI License
Surveillance Camera Network Coming To New York?
Why Does Skype Read the BIOS?
Wiretapping Bill Passes Swedish Parliament, 143 to 138
'Full-Pipe' FBI Internet Monitoring Questionably Legal
DoJ Mulls Tracking Picture Uploads
Eavesdropping Helpful Against Terrorist Plot [UPDATED]
Ex AT&T Tech Says NSA Monitors All Web Traffic
FBI's Unknown Eavesdropping Network
IT and A National Security Letter Gag Order
U.S. Airport Screeners Are Watching What You Read
Using RFID and Wi-Fi to Track Students
Administration Claimed Immunity To 4th Amendment
Bluetooth Surveillance Tested In the UK
EU Plans to Require Biometrics for Visitors
EU Wants Air Passenger Data Collected
Fat People Cause Global Warming, Higher Food Prices
Laptops Can Be Searched At the Border
Montana Says No to Real ID, Passes Law to Deny It
Prototype EU Airplane Spy Cams Watch For Facecrime
Public Iris Scanning Device In the Works
Senate Committee Votes To Fingerprint Lenders
Stalling Cars Via OnStar
UK Academics Arrested For Researching al-Qaida
Using Tire Pressure Sensors To Spy On Cars
Video Surveillance Tech Detects Abnormal Activity
White House Wins On Spying, Telecom Immunity
Wiretapping Law Sparks Rage In Sweden
Talking CCTV to Scold Offenders in UK
'War on Terror' Allies Form Information Consortium
AU Government Demands Universal Wiretapping
Clandestine Operations at Google
Comcast Is Reading Your Blog
Court Rules GPS Tracking Legal For Law Officers
DOJ Still Looks To Have Suit Against Verizon Tossed
FBI Employees Face Criminal Probe Over Patriot Act
FBI May Have Datamined Grocery Stores With Help From Credit Companies
FBI and Next-Gen P2P Monitoring
Free Phone Calls... If Advertisers Can Eavesdrop
Microsoft WGA Phones Home Even When Told No
Microsoft to Spy on Employees
Monday is Wiretap the Internet Day
Soldiers Can't Blog Without Approval
Some States Say National ID Cards 'Make Life Easier'
Tracking People Using Bluetooth
UK Government To Terminate File Sharers' Net Access
Virgin Media To Spy On & Threaten Downloaders
Yes Virginia, ISPs Have Silently Blocked Web Sites
YouTube Must Give All User Histories To Viacom
ACLU Protests Police Scanning License Plates
AT&T to Help MPAA Filter the Internet?
Airlines Have to Ask Permission to Fly 72 Hours Early
Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
Bavarian Police Can Legally Place Trojans On PCs
Cell Phones Tracking Nightlife Activity
FBI Seizes Library Computers Without Warrant
FISA Bill Vote Today, With Telco Immunity
FISA and Border Searches of Laptops
Google's $10 Local Search Play
Government Seeks Dismissal of Spy Suit
Houston Police Test Unmanned Surveillance Aircraft
IRS Pushes for New Reporting at Expense of Privacy
Interview with National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell
MySpace Joins OpenID Coalition
National ID Cards Mandated in the US, If You're Under 50
New York To Ban iPods While Crossing Street?
Online Colleges Could Spy On Students – By Law
Proposed Legislation Would Outlaw "Cyberbullying" in US
RIM In Trouble For Not Violating Privacy
Russia To Require Registration For Wi-Fi Use
Sandvine CEO Says Internet Monitoring a Necessity
School Kids Get Virtual Web Lockers
Security Threat In the New Wiretapping Law
Spy Drones Take to the Sky in the UK
Sweden's Snoop Law Targets Russia
Telecom Immunity Bill Hides Spying Provisions
US Official Urges Americans To Reconsider Privacy
University Professor Chastised For Using Tor
US Citizens To Require ''Clearance'' To Leave?
AI Could Power Next-gen CCTV Cameras
Latest Revelations on the FBI's Data Mining of America
Americans Don't Care About Domestic Spying ?
Canadian Border Tightens Due to Info Sharing
Feds Have Access To Cellphone Tracking On Request
Homeland Security Offers Details on Real ID
Merely Cloaking Data May Be Incriminating?
Microsoft Gets Help From NSA for Vista Security
MyLifeBits to Store Every Moment of Your Life
The Failing Right of Laptop Privacy
US Set on Expansion of Security DNA Collection
Chicago Links School Cameras To Police
DHS to Begin Collecting DNA of Anyone Arrested
UK Propose Registering Screen Names with Police
AT&T Announces Plans to Filter Copyright Content
Archive.org Defeats FBI's Demand For User Information
Aussie Cops Want Powers To Search Any Computer
Boston Bans Boing Boing From City Wi-Fi
California Proposes to Ban Incandescent Lightbulbs
Canon Files For DSLR Iris Registration Patent
Chinese Official Vows to "Purify" the Net
Congress Debating "No-Work" Database
DOJ To Oversee Windows 7 Development
Deadline For Saying "No" To National ID
Deep Packet Inspection and Net Neutrality
Did NBC Alter the Olympics' Opening Ceremony?
Don't Google "How To Commit Murder" Before Killing
Executive Order Overturns US Fifth Amendment
FBI Accused of Abusing Criminal Database
FBI Coerced Confession Deemed "Classified"
FBI Wiretaps Canceled for Non-Payment
FBI's New Eye Scan Database Raising Eyebrows
Facebook Caves To Privacy Protests Over Beacon
Fedora Metrics Help Whole Linux Community
Going to Yosemite? Get Your Passport Ready!
H.R. 4279 Would Establish Federal IP Cops
How to Dodge the Chinese Internet Censor
In Australia, Bosses May Get Power To Snoop On Emails
Japan IDs All Its Citizens
Japan Imposes "Fine On Fat"
Judge Backs Amazon, Raps Feds Over Book Records