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Replacing Metal Detectors With Brain Scans
Oregon Governor Proposes Vehicle Mileage Tax
Wiretap Whistleblower, a Life in Limbo?
Obama Proposes Digital Health Records
Every Email In UK To Be Monitored
Surveillance Cameras Get Smarter
Searching DNA For Relatives Raises Concerns
The UK's Total Surveillance
A Surveillance Camera On Every Chicago Street Corner?
UK Police Want DNA of 'Potential Offenders'
UK Government Wants Private Encryption Keys
Bush Demands Amnesty for Spying Telecoms
Pentagon Reveals News Correction Unit
New NSA-Approved Encryption Standard May Contain Backdoor
Airships to Patrol Venezuela's Skies
Next G8 President Wants To "Regulate the Internet"
Gilmore Loses Airport ID Case
India Sleepwalks Into a Surveillance Society
Lip-Reading Surveillance Cameras
Congress Mulls Research Into a Vehicle Mileage Tax
Cell Phone SIM Cards Lead To Terrorists' Trail
Wiretapping Lawsuit Against AT&T Dismissed
Bugged Canadian Coins?
U.S. Secretly Tapping Bank Databases
Indonesians Want To Microchip AIDS Patients
Whistleblower Claims NSA Spied On Everyone, Targeted Media
US Citizens To Require ''Clearance'' To Leave?
Student Faces Expulsion for Blog Post
Reporter Phone Records Being Used to Find Leaks
WA Law Means Linking to Gambling Websites Illegal
Japan IDs All Its Citizens
"Mobile Plate Hunter" Cameras Raise Questions
Visitors To US Now Required To Register Online
FBI Bringing Biometric Photo Scanning To North Carolina, Via DMV
Who Protects the Internet?
AT&T Forwarding All Internet Traffic to NSA?
UK Police To Step Up Hacking of Home PCs
Police Launch Drones Over LA
Aerial Drones To Help Cops In Miami
China To Begin Taxing Profits From Virtual Currencies
.xxx registry sues US government
Archive.org Defeats FBI's Demand For User Information
Chicago's Camera Network Is Everywhere
China Makes Arrests To Stop Internet Porn
Demo of EU's Planned "INDECT" Hints At Massive Data Mining, Little Privacy
FBI and Next-Gen P2P Monitoring
FBI's New Eye Scan Database Raising Eyebrows
French Deputies Want Labels On Photo-Altered Models
Houston Police Test Unmanned Surveillance Aircraft
How Not To Pay a Parking Ticket
Jack Thompson's Violent Game Bill Signed Into Law
Russia To Require Registration For Wi-Fi Use
Your Washer is Calling and the Dryer is on IM
U.S. House to Vote on Anti-Online Gambling Act
Patriot Act Bypasses Facebook Privacy
Domestic Spying Program to Get Judicial Oversight
Gonzales Wants ISP Data Retention To Curb Child Porn
Big Brother Wants Into VoIP At Any Cost
DSL Gateways to Fight Piracy by Marking Video
Army to Require Trusted Platform Module in PCs
Americans Not Bothered by NSA Spying
China To Deploy World's Largest People Tracking Network
Three Years in Prison for Posting Hatespeak
Obama Sides With Bush In Spy Case
British Airport Will Require Fingerprints From Domestic Passengers
UK Government To Monitor All Internet Use
President Bush Blocks NSA Wireless Tapping Probe
Microsoft Using Personal Data to Target Ads
Students In UK Tracked With RFID Chips
UK Outlines Plan For Internet Black Boxes
The Fine Print On Wiretapping Review
More Details of the NSA's Social Network Analysis
Hong Kong Using Children to Hunt for Piracy
China To Photograph All Internet Cafe Customers
Tool To Allow ISPs To Scan Every File You Transmit
UK School Introduces Facial Recognition
Library Chief Criticized for Requiring Subpoena
Prototype EU Airplane Spy Cams Watch For Facecrime
What the DHS Knows About You
Congress May Add Record Requirements to MySpace
Aussies Hit the Streets Over Gov't Internet Filters
Passport Required To Buy Mobile Phones In the UK
House Approves Warrantless Wiretapping
Unmanned Aerial Drones Coming Soon Above U.S.
Washington State Wants DNA From All Arrestees
UK Government Says More Spying Needed
Bush Claims Mail Can Be Opened Without Warrant
UK Gov't Proposes Massive Internet Snooping, Data Storage
New Congressional Bill Makes DMCA Look Tame
Google to Track TV Viewers More Closely
To Curb Truancy, Dallas Tries Electronic Monitoring
WGA Turning Off PCs in the Fall?
India Joins China in Censoring Websites
Australia Wants to Regulate Internet Streaming
US Visitor Fingerprints To Be (Perhaps) Stored by FBI
Proposal to Implant RFID Chips in Immigrants
U.S. Gov't Spent $30M On Citizens' Personal Info
NSA To Datamine Social Networking Sites
EU and US Reach Deal On Airline Data
Financial Responsibility == Terrorism?
More Claims From NSA Whistleblower Russell Tice
Unbelievably Large Telescopes On the Moon?
All US Border Crossings Now Require A 'Terrorist Risk Profile'
Cities View Red Light Cameras As Profit Centers
ISPs to Create Database to Combat Child Porn
A Peek At DHS's Files On You
Video Surveillance Identifies Threat Patterns
FBI To Spend $1B Expanding Fingerprint Database
Apple To Sell Wi-Fi-less iPhone In China
Bill To Add Accountability To Border Laptop Search
Home Science Under Attack In Massachusetts
NSA Had Domestic Call Monitoring Before 9/11?
My Genome, My Self?
Google to Use PC Microphones to Listen In?
A DNA Database For All U.S. Workers?
Widespread Spying Preceded '04 GOP Convention
Mexican Government To Document Cell Phone Use
The Pentagon Wants a 'TiVo' to Watch You
Draconian DRM Revealed In Windows 7
New Ads That Watch You
DHS Allowed To Take Laptops Indefinitely
The NSA Knows Who You've Called
Nanaimo, The Google Capital of the World
Nuclear Scanning Catches a Radioactive Cat On I-5
CCTV Cameras In UK Get Loudspeakers
State of Ohio Establishes "Pre-Crime" Registry
FBI Says Paper Trails Are Optional
Homeland Security's Space-Based Spying Goes Live
US Government Restricting Research Libraries
US Policy Would Allow Government Access to Any Email
Local Police Want To Jam Wireless Signals
London 2006, Meet London 1984
House Panel Approves Electronic Surveillance Bill
National Car Tracking System Proposed For US
ACLU Files for Info on New Brain-Scan Tech
NYC 911 to Accept Cellphone Pics and Video
Photograph the Police, Get Arrested
'Big Brother' Eyes Make Us Act More Honestly
As of October, FBI To Allow Warrantless Investigations
No Passport For Britons Refusing Mass Surveillance
Sensor To Monitor TV Watchers Demoed At Cable Labs
New Zealand's Recording Industry CEO Tries to Defend New Draconian Law
Why Does Skype Read the BIOS?
Largest Aussie ISP Agrees To "Ridiculous" Net-Filter Trial
Google Maps To Add 'Friend' GPS Tracking
Used Game Market Affecting Price, Quality of New Titles
Canadian ISP Shoulder Surfing
Microsoft Talks Daily With Your Computer
DARPA Contract Hints At Real-Time Video Spying
Police Given Access to Congestion-Charge Cameras
Has Orwell's '1984' Come 22 Years Later?
Google Releases Google Browser Sync Extension
Indian GPS Cartographers Charged As Terrorists
MA Attorney General Seeks Myspace Changes
Collateral Damage as UK Censors Internet Archive
Amazon Pulls Purchased E-Book Copies of 1984 and Animal Farm
UK Government Plans 10-Year Database of Citizens' Travel
Warrantless GPS Tracking Is Legal, Says WI Court
School Admins Demand Access to Students' Cellphones
Homeland Security's Tech Wonders
Proposal for UK Prisoners to be Given RFID Implants
In Soviet US, Comcast Watches YOU
China's All-Seeing Eye
AT&T Rewrites Privacy Policy
RFID-Reading Passport Scanners Installed
Fat People Cause Global Warming, Higher Food Prices
Interpol Pushing World Facial Recognition Database
New York Plans Surveillance Veil For Downtown
Apple's All-Seeing Screen
US Official Urges Americans To Reconsider Privacy
Air Marshals Place Innocents on Secret Watch List
Irish GSM Providers Asked to Track Users' Web Use
Are National ID Cards a Good Idea?
10,000 Cameras Ineffective At Deterring Crime
Senate Committee Votes to Authorize Warrentless Wiretapping
FBI to Put Criminals Up in Lights
London Police Seek To Install CCTV In Pubs
AT&T Says Spying Is Too Secret For Courts
DHS To Share Spy Satellite Data Over the US
Let Goofy Track Your Children
Emergency Government Control of the Internet?
DOJ Still Looks To Have Suit Against Verizon Tossed
EU Data-Retention Laws Stricter Than Many People Realized
Retroactive Immunity Proposed for Telcos Who Share Private Data
Germany Legislates For Mandatory Web Filters
Project Turns GPS Phones Into Traffic Reporters
Baby Meets Big Brother For Science
Under the Hood of AT&T's Monitoring System
FBI Data Mining Students' Financial Aid Records
FBI Releases Secret Subpoena Information
Canadian Bill C-416 to Require Wiretapping
Congress May Consider Mandatory ISP Snooping
Chinese Govt Limits Kids to 3hrs of Online Gaming
Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
China's All-Seeing Eye
Latest Revelations on the FBI's Data Mining of America
Helping Other Big Brothers Go High Tech
Judge Says, Record DNA of Everyone In the UK
IT and A National Security Letter Gag Order
U.S. Government Moves To Dismiss EFF Case