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In MN, Massive Police Raids On Suspected Protestors
Going to Yosemite? Get Your Passport Ready!
UK Police Want DNA of 'Potential Offenders'
Italy Wants to Restrict Blogs
U.S. Airport Screeners Are Watching What You Read
UK Government To Terminate File Sharers' Net Access
Senate Passes Telecom Immunity Bill
UK's Blair Dismisses Online Anti ID-Card Petition
US Official Urges Americans To Reconsider Privacy
All US Border Crossings Now Require A 'Terrorist Risk Profile'
Ex AT&T Tech Says NSA Monitors All Web Traffic
Court Upholds Warrantless Internet Snooping
EU Wants Air Passenger Data Collected
Man Arrested for Refusing to Show Drivers License
New York Plans Surveillance Veil For Downtown
UK Academics Arrested For Researching al-Qaida
University of Florida Student Tasered At Political Rally
Eavesdropping Helpful Against Terrorist Plot [UPDATED]
In the UK, Possession of the Anarchist's Cookbook Is Terrorism
Administration Claimed Immunity To 4th Amendment
As of October, FBI To Allow Warrantless Investigations
FBI Raids Home of Suspected NSA Leaker
Maryland Police Put Activists' Names On Terror List
National Car Tracking System Proposed For US
Student Arrested for Making Videogame Map of School
UN Says Tasers Are a Form of Torture
US Senate Fails To Reinstate Habeas Corpus
MIT Student Arrested For Wearing 'Tech Art' Shirt At Airport
US Courts Consider Legality of Laptop Inspection
US Wants Courts to OK Warrantless Email Snooping
Illegal Downloaders to be Blocked By French Government?
UK Can Now Hold People Without Charge For 42 Days
Couple Who Catch Cop Speeding Could Face Charges
FBI Coerced Confession Deemed "Classified"
McCain Supports Warrantless Domestic Surveillance
UK Government Says More Spying Needed
US Policy Would Allow Government Access to Any Email
US To Employ Overhead Spying Domestically
Germany Implements Sweeping Data Retention Policies
House Approves Warrantless Wiretapping Extension
Japan to Start Fingerprinting Foreign Travelers
Skype Messages Monitored In China
U.S. House Says the Internet is Terrorist Threat
Video Surveillance Identifies Threat Patterns
Wikileaks Releases Sensitive Guantanamo Manual
Airlines Have to Ask Permission to Fly 72 Hours Early
Australia Mulling a Nationwide Vehicle-Tracking System
DHS Allowed To Take Laptops Indefinitely
DHS Official Considered Shock Collars For Air Travelers
Executive Order Overturns US Fifth Amendment
FBI Accused of Abusing Criminal Database
FBI Lied To Support Need For PATRIOT Act Expansion
FBI To Spend $1B Expanding Fingerprint Database
FBI's New Eye Scan Database Raising Eyebrows
Home Science Under Attack In Massachusetts
Homeland Security Department Testing "Pre-Crime" Detector
Journalist Test Drives The Pain Ray Gun
National ID Cards Mandated in the US, If You're Under 50
National Security Letter Plaintiff Speaks
Police Given Access to Congestion-Charge Cameras
Senate Committee Votes To Fingerprint Lenders
Subpoena Sought For Browsed News Articles
Supreme Court Won't Hear ACLU Wiretap Case
TSA's "Behavior Detection Officers"
US Visitor Fingerprints To Be (Perhaps) Stored by FBI
White House Wins On Spying, Telecom Immunity
Widespread Spying Preceded '04 GOP Convention
US Set to Use Spy Satellites on US Citizens
Aerial Drones To Help Cops In Miami
Americans Don't Care About Domestic Spying ?
Court Orders Dismissal of US Wiretapping Lawsuit
DOJ Accidentally Gives Lawyer Wiretap Transcript
FBI Seeks To Restrict University Student Freedoms
Feds Have Access To Cellphone Tracking On Request
U.S. Confiscating Data at the Border
White House Says Phone Wiretaps Will Resume For Now
DHS to Begin Collecting DNA of Anyone Arrested
First Use of RIPA to Demand Encryption Keys
"War On Terror" Board Game Confiscated In UK
Aussie Cops Want Powers To Search Any Computer
Bill To Add Accountability To Border Laptop Search
China Says Tibetans Need Permission To Reincarnate
China's All-Seeing Eye
Colleges Being Remade Into "Repress U"?
DHS To Share Spy Satellite Data Over the US
EFF Sues NSA, President Bush, and VP Cheney
Electronic Transaction Reporting Slipped Into Senate Bill
FBI Wants Authority To Filter Net Backbone
Gilmore Loses Airport ID Case
H.R. 4279 Would Establish Federal IP Cops
Interview With Jailed Video Blogger Josh Wolf
Is Videotaping the Police a Felony?
Israel Moves Toward a National Biometric Database
Laptops Can Be Searched At the Border
Lawmakers Delay Telco Immunity Vote
No Passport For Britons Refusing Mass Surveillance
Patriot Act Haunts Google Service
Political Bloggers May Be Forced to Register
Stalling Cars Via OnStar
Total Phone and Email Database Proposed In UK
UK ISPs To Face Piracy Deadline
UK Teen Cited For Calling Scientology a "Cult"
US "Fusion Centers" For Intelligence Sharing
US Senate Votes Immunity For Telecoms
Will Security Firms Detect Police Spyware?
Wiretapping Bill Passes Swedish Parliament, 143 to 138
Wiretapping Law Sparks Rage In Sweden
Australian Police Chief Seeks Terror Reporting Ban
Aqua Teen Art 'Terrorist' Describes His Ordeal
Australia Plans to Censor the Internet
Bioethics Group Raises DNA Database Concerns
Canadian Coins Not Nano-Tech Espionage Devices
Chinese Govt Limits Kids to 3hrs of Online Gaming
Congress Creates Copyright Cops
Congress May Outlaw 'Attempted Piracy'
Congressman Hollywood Wants To Make DMCA Tougher
DOJ Still Looks To Have Suit Against Verizon Tossed
Dodd, Feingold To Try and Filibuster Immunity Bill
FBI Employees Face Criminal Probe Over Patriot Act
FBI May Have Datamined Grocery Stores With Help From Credit Companies
FBI's Unknown Eavesdropping Network
Feds Overstate Software Piracy's Link To Terrorism
German Govt. Skype Interception Trojans Revealed
GoDaddy Silences RateMyCop.com
Hushmail Passing PGP Keys to the US Government
Japan Seeking to Govern Top News Web Sites
NYC Wants to Ban Geiger Counters
Russian Police Seize Kasparov
Satellite Spotters Make Government Uneasy
Should We Spam Proxies to China?
Surveillance Camera Network Coming To New York?
TSA To Allow Laptops In Approved Bags
Telecom Immunity Showdown in the Senate Today
The Kremlin Tightens Its Grip on the Internet
UK Taps 439,000 Phones, Now Wants To Monitor MPs
White House Wins Ruling On E-mail Records
Wikileaks Publishes FBI VoIP Surveillance Docs
Chicago Links School Cameras To Police
FBI Hid Patriot Act Abuses
UK's MI5 Wants Oyster Card Travel Data
Feds Have a High-Speed Backdoor Into Wireless Carrier
Terror Watch List Swells to More Than 755,000
"Mobile Plate Hunter" Cameras Raise Questions
4,000 Anti-Scientology Videos Yanked From YouTube
ACLU Protests Police Scanning License Plates
AT&T Says Spying Is Too Secret For Courts
AT&T to Help MPAA Filter the Internet?
After 3 Years, Freenet 0.7 Released
Air Force To Re-Open Pursuit of Cyber Command
Another Man Dies After Marathon Gaming Session
Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
Anti-Government Webmaster Shot Dead By Russian Police
Archive.org Defeats FBI's Demand For User Information
Australian Extradited For Breaking US Law At Home
Bavarian Police Seeking Skype Trojan Informant
Bluetooth Surveillance Tested In the UK
British Drivers Destroying Surveillance Cameras
California Edges Toward Joining Real ID Revolt
California Proposes to Ban Incandescent Lightbulbs
Canada's Proposed DMCA-Style Law Draws Fire
Citizens Demand To See Secret ACTA Treaty
Comment Deadline For NYC Photography Permits
Competitors Ally With Comcast In FCC P2P Filings
Councils Recruit Unpaid Volunteers To Spy On Their Neighbors
Craigslist Forced To Reveal a Seller's Identity
DHS Official Suggests REAL ID Mission Creep
DOJ To Oversee Windows 7 Development
Deadline For Saying "No" To National ID
Deutsche Telekom Secretly Tracked Phone Calls
Don't Share That Law! It's Copyrighted
Dragonfly-Sized Insect Spies Spotted, Denied
E-gold Owners Plead Guilty To Money Laundering
EU Moving to Ban Online Hate Speech
EU Plans to Require Biometrics for Visitors
FBI Doesn't Tell Courts About Bogus Evidence
FBI Fights Testing For False DNA Matches
FBI Says Paper Trails Are Optional
FBI Seizes Library Computers Without Warrant
FISA Court Sides With ACLU Against Administration
FISA and Border Searches of Laptops
Feds Check Credit Reports Without a Subpoena
Finnish Censorship Expanding
Germany Searches Credit Cards For Child Porn Payments
Google Pulls Map Images At Pentagon's Request
Houston Police Test Unmanned Surveillance Aircraft
IRS May Ask eBay To Snitch On Sellers
ISP Tracking Legislation Hits the House
In Iran, Blogging May Be Punishable By Death
Inside Comcast's Surveillance Policies
Internet Pirates In France To Lose Broadband
Interview with National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell
JFK, LAX To Test Millimeter-Wave Scanners
James Powderly of Graffiti Research Labs Detained In China
Japan Imposes "Fine On Fat"
Judge Says, Record DNA of Everyone In the UK
Lessig Predicts Cyber 9/11 Event, Restrictive Laws
Lip-Reading Surveillance Cameras
Major UK Child Porn Investigation Flawed
Malaysia Uses Anti-Terrorism Laws To Stop Bloggers
Microsoft Helps Police Crack Your Computer