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Commerce Department Pushing For New "Copyright Czar"
Senate Votes To Empower Parents As Censors
Court Rules That Palin Must Save Yahoo Emails
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
New Bill To Rein In DHS Laptop Seizures
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
Japan Imposes "Fine On Fat"
NSA Whistleblowers Reveal Extent of Eavesdropping
Permanent Links For US Legislation Documents
Satellite Spotters Make Government Uneasy
UK Reconsiders 1986 Decision To Ban Astronauts
UK Police Want DNA of 'Potential Offenders'
California Can't Perform Pay Cut Because of COBOL
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
If IP Is Property, Where Is the Property Tax?
Report Says China Will Demand Source Code
Senate Judiciary Committee Approves Copyright Cops
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
111 Years Ago, Indiana Almost Legislated Pi
Anti-Terrorist Data Mining Doesn't Work Very Well
As of October, FBI To Allow Warrantless Investigations
Avi Rubin Has Some Optimistic Words About E-Voting
Daylight Saving Time Wastes Energy
End of the Internet's Tax-Free Ride?
FBI Burying Doc Showing US Officials Stole Nuclear Secrets?
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
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
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
A Law to Spy Back on Government Surveillance Cameras?
Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
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
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
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
NOAA Requires License For Photos of the Earth
Nancy Pelosi vs. the Internet
New Scientific Evidence Emerges In Anthrax Case
New York Issues RFID-Encoded Drivers Licenses
New York to Implement an 'Amazon Tax'
Open Wi-Fi May Become Illegal In India
Patriot Act Haunts Google Service
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
Telecom Immunity Bill Hides Spying Provisions
Tin Whiskers — Fact Or Fiction?
Two Powerful Blows Against Air Pollution Controls
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 Halts Applications For Solar Energy Projects
Video Shows Easy Hacking of E-Voting Machines
What Will Come of the FCC Comcast Hearing
Gov't Database Errors Leading To Unconstitutional Searches?
Americans Don't Care About Domestic Spying ?
Army Buys Macs to Beef Up Security
Best Super Tuesday Candidate for Technology?
British "X-files" Released to Public
Classified Wiki For U.S. Intelligence Community
Congress Creates Copyright Cops
Congress Turns Up The Heat on FCC's Chairman
Creative Capitalism Gets Microsoft $528M Tax Break
DOE Awards 265 Million Processor-Hours To Science Projects
DOJ Doesn't Like the Idea of A Copyright Czar
Dodd, Feingold To Try and Filibuster Immunity Bill
EPA Reaches Goal On Data Center Study
FAA Mandates Major Aircraft "Black Box" Upgrade
FBI Looks Into Chinese Role in Darfur Site Hack
Feds Block EFF Look at Google/DoJ Contacts
German Govt. Skype Interception Trojans Revealed
Germany Implements Sweeping Data Retention Policies
Human Rights and a Code of Conduct for China's Web
Lessig Campaign and the Change Congress Movement
Malaysian Candidates Required to Have Blogs
Master Diebold Key Copied From Web Site
NYC Wants to Ban Geiger Counters
NYT Editorial Slams ISPs Over Online Freedom
Net Neutrality Blasted by MPAA Bosses
Oklahoma Leaks 10,000 Social Security Numbers
Police Lose National High-Tech Crime Unit Website
Ray Gun Puts Voices Inside Your Head
Russian Software Piracy Crackdown Restricts Free Speech
Sequoia Vote Machine Can't Do Simple Arithmetic?
Swiss DMCA Quietly Adopted
Taxes, Second Life and Warcraft
Thai Government To Close 400 Anti-government Sites
The $10 Billion Poker Game Begins
The Device NASA Is Leaving Behind
The Rush To Patent the Atomic Bomb
U.S. Confiscating Data at the Border
White House Briefed On "Potential For Life" On Mars
White House Decides P2P Isn't All Bad?
Windows 7 Eyed For Antitrust Violations
Quebec Govt Sued For Ignoring Free Software
FBI Hid Patriot Act Abuses
Government Mistakenly Declares Deaths of Citizens
Australian Police Chief Seeks Terror Reporting Ban
DOJ Opposes Extending DOJ Copyright Authority
Data Retention Proven to Change Citizen Behavior
Google Pushes Back Against US Copyright Treaty
Sweden On Verge of Passing Sweeping Wiretap Plan
"Google Satellite" To Be Launched This Week
"Hollywood" Howard Berman To Leave Internet Subcommittee
$500,000 Prize for Faster Airport Security Checks
2008 International Broadband Rankings
30% of Americans Want "Balanced" Blogging
A Step Backward For Voting System Transparency
AT&T Says Spying Is Too Secret For Courts
Administration Claimed Immunity To 4th Amendment
Advice On File Sharing For a Swedish MP?
Algorithm Names Powell 'Ideal' Vice President Candidate
Another Indian State Moving To FOSS
Anti-Government Webmaster Shot Dead By Russian Police
Appeals Court Rules US Can Block Mad Cow Testing
Australia Mulling a Nationwide Vehicle-Tracking System
Behind China's Great Firewall
Bill Gates's Wish Is Homeland Security's Command

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