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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
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
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
FBI Raids Home of Suspected NSA Leaker
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?
Couple Who Catch Cop Speeding Could Face Charges
FBI Coerced Confession Deemed "Classified"
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
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
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
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
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
Aussie Cops Want Powers To Search Any Computer
China Says Tibetans Need Permission To Reincarnate
Colleges Being Remade Into "Repress U"?
DHS To Share Spy Satellite Data Over the US
FBI Wants Authority To Filter Net Backbone
Gilmore Loses Airport ID Case
Interview With Jailed Video Blogger Josh Wolf
Is Videotaping the Police a Felony?
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
UK ISPs To Face Piracy Deadline
US "Fusion Centers" For Intelligence Sharing
US Senate Votes Immunity For Telecoms
Will Security Firms Detect Police Spyware?
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
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?
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
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
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
Another Man Dies After Marathon Gaming Session
Archive.org Defeats FBI's Demand For User Information
Australian Extradited For Breaking US Law At Home
Bluetooth Surveillance Tested In the UK
British Drivers Destroying Surveillance Cameras
California Edges Toward Joining Real ID Revolt
California Proposes to Ban Incandescent Lightbulbs
Comment Deadline For NYC Photography Permits
Competitors Ally With Comcast In FCC P2P Filings
DHS Official Suggests REAL ID Mission Creep
Deadline For Saying "No" To National ID
Dragonfly-Sized Insect Spies Spotted, Denied
EU Moving to Ban Online Hate Speech
EU Plans to Require Biometrics for Visitors
FBI Doesn't Tell Courts About Bogus Evidence
FBI Says Paper Trails Are Optional
FISA Court Sides With ACLU Against Administration
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
Inside Comcast's Surveillance Policies
Interview with National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell
JFK, LAX To Test Millimeter-Wave Scanners
Judge Says, Record DNA of Everyone In the UK
Lip-Reading Surveillance Cameras
Major UK Child Porn Investigation Flawed
Malaysia Uses Anti-Terrorism Laws To Stop Bloggers
Microsoft Helps Police Crack Your Computer
More Details Emerge On Domestic Spying Programs
New York To Ban iPods While Crossing Street?
Police Busted When Tracking Device Found On Car
REAL ID In Its Death Throes, Says ACLU
RIAA Uses Local Cops In Oregon Raid
Russia To Require Registration For Wi-Fi Use
Schneier On the War On the Unexpected
Scientology Critic Arrested After 6 Years
Technical Risks of the US Protect America Act
Telco Immunity Goes To Full Debate
The Germs' Drummer Arrested For Carrying Soap
To Media Companies, BitTorrent Implies Guilt
Two Ways Not To Handle Free Speech
UK Man Convicted For Wi-Fi Piggybacking
US Attorney General Questions Habeas Corpus
US Blocks Entry For German Black Hat Presenter
US Internet Control To Be Topic #1 In Rio
University Professor Chastised For Using Tor
Using Tire Pressure Sensors To Spy On Cars
Webcomic Author Deemed a Terrorist Threat
Windows Genuine Advantage Gets More Lenient
FBI Posts Fake Hyperlinks To Trap Downloaders of Illegal Porn
National "Dragnet" Connecting at State, Local Level
White House Ordered to Preserve All Email
'War on Terror' Allies Form Information Consortium
AU Government Demands Universal Wiretapping
Another Anti-Terror List Impacting Businesses, Customers
Aqua Teen Stunt Costs Turner and Agency $2M
Armed Police Bots with Stun Guns
Big Brother Really Is Watching Us All
Blogger Freed After 226 Days in Jail For Contempt
British Cops Hack Into Government Computers
Cell SMS in Planes on Trial Down-Under
China Bans Horror Movies
Court Rules GPS Tracking Legal For Law Officers
Danish ISP Tele2 Challenges Pirate Bay Blockade
Diffing Guantanamo Bay SOP Manuals
Domains Blocked By US Treasury 'Blacklist'
FCC Declines To Probe Disclosure of Phone Records
Germany Seeks Expansion of Computer Spying
How Pervasive is ISP Outbound Email Filtering?
IT and A National Security Letter Gag Order
Internet Censorship's First Death Sentence?
Lenovo Looking to Buy Seagate, May Raise Political Concerns
MA Proposes Two Year Jail Term for Online Gambling
MacBook Air Confuses Airport Security
MyLifeBits to Store Every Moment of Your Life
NYC 911 to Accept Cellphone Pics and Video
NYC Lawyers Subpoena Code
NYT Exposes the Identity of Fake Steve Jobs
Nanaimo, The Google Capital of the World
Senator Proposes to Monitor All P2P Traffic for Illegal Files
State Agency to Destroy Unauthorized USB Drives