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ACLU Creates Map of US "Constitution-Free Zone"
Ted "A Series of Tubes" Stevens Found Guilty
Commerce Department Pushing For New "Copyright Czar"
Online Carpooling Service Fined In Canada
EU Council Refuses To Release ACTA Documents
President Signs Law Creating Copyright Czar
Senate Votes To Empower Parents As Censors
Afghan Student Gets 20 Years For Blasphemy
EU Will Not Divulge Microsoft Contracts
Court Rules That Palin Must Save Yahoo Emails
EFF Sues To Overturn Telecom Immunity
FCC Approves Unlicensed Use of White-Space Spectrum
Judge Suppresses Report On Voting Systems
National Debt Clock Overflowed, Extended By a Digit
UK Government Says More Spying Needed
US House Adopts New Third-Party Web Site Rules
Clandestine Operations at Google
Obama & McCain Conflicting On Net Neutrality
Concerns About ACTA In EU, Canada
F-Secure Calls For "Internetpol" To Fight Crimeware
International Spam Ring Shut Down
New Bill To Rein In DHS Laptop Seizures
Obama Launches Change.gov
Air Force To Re-Open Pursuit of Cyber Command
Can Static Electricity Generate Votes?
Cities Tampering With Traffic Lights To Generate Revenue
Congress Endorses Open Source For Military
FCC to Investigate D-Block Auction
Financial Responsibility == Terrorism?
Free Wireless Band Gets FCC OK
Japan Imposes "Fine On Fat"
NSA Whistleblowers Reveal Extent of Eavesdropping
Nation-Wide Internet Censorship Proposed For Australia
Permanent Links For US Legislation Documents
Report Says China Will Demand Source Code
Satellite Spotters Make Government Uneasy
UK Reconsiders 1986 Decision To Ban Astronauts
US's First Internet Votes To Be Cast This Friday
UK Police Want DNA of 'Potential Offenders'
California Can't Perform Pay Cut Because of COBOL
China To Photograph All Internet Cafe Customers
Copyright Expert Uninvited From Canada Policy Forum
Dutch ODF Plan Could Sideline Microsoft
EU Fines Microsoft $1.3 Billion
English Court Allows Patents For "Complex" Software
Feds Can Locate Cell Phones Without Telcos
Governments, Beyond the Open Source Hype
How Regulations Hamper Chemical Hobbyists
How We Used To Vote
If IP Is Property, Where Is the Property Tax?
Interpol Pushing World Facial Recognition Database
New Report On NSA Released Today
Paper Ballots Will Return In MD and VA
Senate Judiciary Committee Approves Copyright Cops
U.S. Government to Adopt IPv6 in 2008
U.S. Governments Advised to Use Open Source
Every Email In UK To Be Monitored
Back to the Bunker
Government-Sponsored Cyberattacks on the Rise
How Tech-Savvy Will the Next President Be?
Internet Censorship's First Death Sentence?
NASA Employee Suspended For Blogging At Work
National Archives Cuts Back On Web Site Archiving
Norway Mandates Government Use of ODF and PDF
Senator Proposes to Monitor All P2P Traffic for Illegal Files
Syrian Blogger Sentenced to Three Years in Jail
The FAA Saves $15 Million by Migrating to Linux
Watching Tonight's Presidential Debate Online
111 Years Ago, Indiana Almost Legislated Pi
AT&T Forwarding All Internet Traffic to NSA?
Anti-Terrorist Data Mining Doesn't Work Very Well
As of October, FBI To Allow Warrantless Investigations
Australian Government Censorship 'Worse Than Iran'
Avi Rubin Has Some Optimistic Words About E-Voting
Daylight Saving Time Wastes Energy
Daylight Savings Time Increases Energy Use In Indiana
End of the Internet's Tax-Free Ride?
FBI Agents Don't Have Email Access
FBI Burying Doc Showing US Officials Stole Nuclear Secrets?
IRS Rolls Out Risky Tax Processing Systems
In MN, Massive Police Raids On Suspected Protestors
Japan To Adopt Open Software Standards
National ID Cards Mandated in the US, If You're Under 50
Newegg Defies New York Sales Tax Law
ODF Alliance, Who, What, Where (and Why?)
Purported ACTA Wishlist Would Put DMCA To Shame
Senate Passes Telecom Immunity Bill
Senator Questions Rise In US Texting Prices
State of Kentucky Seizes Control of 141 Domain Names
The Electronic Bastille
UK Parliament to be Made Redundant?
UK UFO Sightings Declassified, Still No Intergalactic Relations
UN Says Tasers Are a Form of Torture
US House Limits Constituent Emails
Wiretapping Bill Passes Swedish Parliament, 143 to 138
YouTube Refuses To Remove Terrorist Videos
AU Government Demands Universal Wiretapping
China Blocks YouTube Over Tibet Videos
EU Commissioner Proposes 95 year Copyright
On-Call-IT Assists In Government Data Destruction
Russia to Build New Spacecraft by 2020
State Agency to Destroy Unauthorized USB Drives
State Lawmaker Wants To Ban Anonymous Posting Online
UK Can Now Hold People Without Charge For 42 Days
White House Email Follies
"Judicial Scandal" In Pirate Bay Case
"Mobile Plate Hunter" Cameras Raise Questions
"Secure Elections Act" Coming Up For Vote
£52 Million Govt Funding for New UK Supercomputer
A Law to Spy Back on Government Surveillance Cameras?
Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
Anti-Matter Created By Laser At Livermore
Apparent Suicide In Anthrax Case
Artist/Astronomer Exhibits Photos Of Spy Satellites
Author Faces Canadian Tribunal For Hate Speech
Bavarian Police Can Legally Place Trojans On PCs
Bavarian Police Seeking Skype Trojan Informant
California Cracks Down On Genetic Testing
Canada Blocks Sale of Space Tech Company To US
Canada's New DMCA Considered Worst Copyright Law
China Anti-Corruption Web Site Crashes On First Day
China Blocks More Internet Services
Citizens Demand To See Secret ACTA Treaty
Classified Cyber-Security Directive Puts NSA In Charge
Competitors Ally With Comcast In FCC P2P Filings
Councils Recruit Unpaid Volunteers To Spy On Their Neighbors
DHS Official Suggests REAL ID Mission Creep
DMCA Exemption Time
Democrats Propose Commission To Investigate Spying
Does Using GPL Software Violate Sarbanes-Oxley?
Don't Share That Law! It's Copyrighted
E-gold Owners Plead Guilty To Money Laundering
FBI Adds Two Digital Forensic Labs
FBI ISP Letters May Have Violated Free Speech
FBI Lied To Support Need For PATRIOT Act Expansion
FBI Seizes Library Computers Without Warrant
FBI Wants Authority To Filter Net Backbone
FCC Revises Broadband Penetration Metrics
FISA Bill Vote Today, With Telco Immunity
FISA and Border Searches of Laptops
German Customs Agents Raid Another Trade Show
Graphics Advances Make Identifying Real Images Difficult
H.R. 4279 Would Establish Federal IP Cops
Home Science Under Attack In Massachusetts
IRS Pushes for New Reporting at Expense of Privacy
ISP Filters & Copyright Extension Defeated In EU
ISPs Blow Off Stanford Net Neutrality Hearing
In Australia, Bosses May Get Power To Snoop On Emails
In Iran, Blogging May Be Punishable By Death
Israel Moves Toward a National Biometric Database
It's Official, Australia Needs a Space Agency
Italian Parliament To Mistakenly Legalize MP3 P2P
Lawmakers Debate Patent Immunity For Banks
Leaked Government Doc Reveals UK ID "Coercion" Plans
Legalize File Sharing, Say Swedish MPs
Linux-Based E-Voting In Brazil
MD Bill Would Criminalize Theft of Wireless Access
More PDF Blackout Follies
NOAA Requires License For Photos of the Earth
Nancy Pelosi vs. the Internet
New Scientific Evidence Emerges In Anthrax Case
New State Laws Could Make Encryption Widespread
New TN Law Forces Universities To Patrol For Copyright Violations
New York Issues RFID-Encoded Drivers Licenses
New York to Implement an 'Amazon Tax'
Novell Signs Linux Deal with Australian Government
Open Wi-Fi May Become Illegal In India
Patriot Act Haunts Google Service
Political Sites Scale Up For Election Traffic
Report Suggests That Nanny State Might Actually Not Be For the Best
Russia To Require Registration For Wi-Fi Use
Sharing 2,999 Songs, 199 Movies Is Safe In Germany
Should Microsoft Be Excluded From EU Government Sales?
Speculation On Large-Scale Phone Location Snooping
Streaming Election Night Broadcast TV?
Ted Stevens Loses Senate Re-Election Bid
Telecom Immunity Bill Hides Spying Provisions
Thailand Blocks Anti-Royal Websites
Tin Whiskers — Fact Or Fiction?
Two Powerful Blows Against Air Pollution Controls
U.S. Gov't Spent $30M On Citizens' Personal Info
UK Academics Arrested For Researching al-Qaida
UK Agency Files OOXML Complaint, EU Demurs
UK ISPs Could Face Government Broadband TV Tax
US Data Centers Wary of Sharing Energy Data With Feds
US Government Studies Open Source Quality
US Halts Applications For Solar Energy Projects
Video Shows Easy Hacking of E-Voting Machines
What Will Come of the FCC Comcast Hearing
Explore the Web From China
Finnish E-Voting System Loses 2% of Votes
Gov't Database Errors Leading To Unconstitutional Searches?
Linux As a Model For a New Government?
Americans Don't Care About Domestic Spying ?
Army Buys Macs to Beef Up Security
Best Super Tuesday Candidate for Technology?
Bill Could Restrict Freedom of the Press
British "X-files" Released to Public
CIA Secretly Reclassifying Documents
Classified Wiki For U.S. Intelligence Community

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