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Privacy and the "Nothing To Hide" Argument
Is Videotaping the Police a Felony?
YouTube Yanks Free Tibet Video After IOC Pressure
Canadian Theatre Chain Sued for Abusive Search
NZ MPs Outlaw Satire of Parliament
FBI Employees Face Criminal Probe Over Patriot Act
Court Upholds Warrantless Internet Snooping
Iran Cracks Down on Bloggers
Student Blogger Loses Defamation Case
TSA's "Behavior Detection Officers"
Torrentspy Disables Searching For US IPs
University of Florida Student Tasered At Political Rally
Australia Plans to Censor the Internet
Buy PC Without an OS... Get a Visit From MSFT?
CNN Website Targeted by DoS
Diebold Threatens Wary Voting Clerk
EPA Sends Data Center Power Study to Congress
Google Assists In Arrest Of Indian Man
Growing Censorship Concerns at Digg
Linux Grows 27.1% in China
More Details of the NSA's Social Network Analysis
Pay-per-email and the "Market Myth"
RIAA Recommends Students Drop out of College
Russian Police Seize Kasparov
Skype Messages Monitored In China
Thai Government To Close 400 Anti-government Sites
The Kremlin Tightens Its Grip on the Internet
ThePirateBay.org Raided and Shut Down
Two-Tier Internet & The End of Freedom of Speech
UK Proposal To Restrict Internet Pornography Sparks Row
White House Derails Attempts to End Illegal Wiretapping
Chinese Bloggers Encouraged to Register Contact Info
Eavesdropping Didn't Help Uncover Terrorist Plot
AMD NDA Scandal
AT&T Forwarding All Internet Traffic to NSA?
Aussies Brace for DMCA
Behind China's Great Firewall
Bill Would Criminalize Attempted IP Infringement
Boardroom Spying Debacle at HP
China Blocks More Internet Services
China Says Tibetans Need Permission To Reincarnate
Chinese Blogs, Netizens React To the Tibet Issue
Chinese Gamers Circumvent Anti-Obsession Measures
Comment Deadline For NYC Photography Permits
Congressional Commitee Rips Yahoo Execs
Creative Vista Driver Modder Speaks Out
FBI Lied To Support Need For PATRIOT Act Expansion
FBI Planning New Net-Tapping Push
FBI Raids Home of Suspected NSA Leaker
FISA Court Sides With ACLU Against Administration
German Court Convicts Skype For Breaching GPL
Gonzales Says Publishing Leaks Is A Crime
Home Science Under Attack In Massachusetts
ISPs to Create Database to Combat Child Porn
In France, Only Journalists Can Film Violence
In Iran, Blogging May Be Punishable By Death
In MN, Massive Police Raids On Suspected Protestors
India Joins China in Censoring Websites
Irish GSM Providers Asked to Track Users' Web Use
Is China's "Great Firewall" a Fraud?
Kent State Banning Athletes from Using Facebook
Man Arrested for Refusing to Show Drivers License
Microsoft Helps Police Crack Your Computer
Nancy Pelosi vs. the Internet
New York Plans Surveillance Veil For Downtown
Olympic Tickets Contain Microchip With Your Data
Pentagon Reveals News Correction Unit
Police Given Access to Congestion-Charge Cameras
RIAA Uses Local Cops In Oregon Raid
RMS Calls to Liberate Cyberspace
Rewriting Environmental Science
Safeguarding Data From Big Brother Sven?
Senate Judiciary Committee Approves Copyright Cops
Surgeon General Describes Censorship From Bush Administration
U.S. Secretly Tapping Bank Databases
UK Government Says More Spying Needed
UK ISPs Could Face Government Broadband TV Tax
UK to Ban Possession of Certain 'Violent' Pornography
US Data Centers Wary of Sharing Energy Data With Feds
US Intensifies Fight Against Child Pornography
Western Union Blocking Money Transfers to Arabs
Wikileaks Breaks $3 Billion Corruption Story
Wiretapping Bill Passes Swedish Parliament, 143 to 138
Wisconsin Could Ban Mandatory Microchip Implants
AllofMP3.com May Hinder Russia Joining WTO
Australian PM Has Parody Site Shut Down
Big Brother Really Is Watching Us All
CIA Blogger Fired for Criticizing Torture Policy
Canadian Domain Registry Pulls Plug on Free Speech
Canadian Record Industry Disputes Own P2P Claims
China Blocks YouTube Over Tibet Videos
China Cracks Down on Internet Cafes
China Frustrated In Encryption Talks
China's Battle to Police the Web
Congress Creates Copyright Cops
Congress Proposes Data Breach Disclosure Bill
Court Orders Dismissal of US Wiretapping Lawsuit
Crashing the Wiretapper's Ball
DOJ Still Looks To Have Suit Against Verizon Tossed
DRM Reduces Battery Life
Eavesdropping Helpful Against Terrorist Plot [UPDATED]
Ex AT&T Tech Says NSA Monitors All Web Traffic
FBI Data Mining For More Than Just Terrorists
FBI Looks Into Chinese Role in Darfur Site Hack
FEMA Sorry for Faking News Briefing
German Police Arrest Admin of Tor Anonymity Server
House Approves Warrantless Wiretapping Extension
Indian Nationalists Forcibly Censor Orkut
More Warnings Against Oversharing on MySpace
NSA Had Domestic Call Monitoring Before 9/11?
NSA To Datamine Social Networking Sites
NYC Lawyers Subpoena Code
New MySpace China Tells Users to Spy on Each Other
Self-Censoring 'Chinese Wikipedia' Launched
Strict German Computer Crime Law Now in Effect
Student Arrested for Writing Essay
Support for U.S. Mandatory Data Retention Laws
The Fine Print On Wiretapping Review
The NSA Knows Who You've Called
U.S. Government Demands ISP Data Retention
U.S. Puts 12 Nations On Watch For Piracy
UK Recording Industry Wants Allofmp3 An Issue at G8
Viacom Wants Industry Wide Copyright Filter
Yahoo Defends Itself On China Allegations
Highway Safety Agency Silences Engineers
Homeland Security Funds LED Light That Blinds, Disorients
Swedish Police to Block Pirate Bay
AI Could Power Next-gen CCTV Cameras
Australian Teachers Try To Shut Down Website
Biometric Terrorist Detector
Senators Call for Universal Internet Filtering
Spain Outlaws P2P File-Sharing
Sweden On Verge of Passing Sweeping Wiretap Plan
UK Can Now Hold People Without Charge For 42 Days
Unmanned Aerial Drones Coming Soon Above U.S.
eBay Australia Makes PayPal Mandatory
Social Consequences and Effects of RFID Implants?