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Clandestine Operations at Google
Cities Tampering With Traffic Lights To Generate Revenue
FCC to Investigate D-Block Auction
Japan Imposes "Fine On Fat"
Satellite Spotters Make Government Uneasy
UK Reconsiders 1986 Decision To Ban Astronauts
UK Police Want DNA of 'Potential Offenders'
Copyright Expert Uninvited From Canada Policy Forum
Dutch ODF Plan Could Sideline Microsoft
EU Fines Microsoft $1.3 Billion
If IP Is Property, Where Is the Property Tax?
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
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?
Japan To Adopt Open Software Standards
National ID Cards Mandated in the US, If You're Under 50
Purported ACTA Wishlist Would Put DMCA To Shame
Senate Passes Telecom Immunity Bill
UN Says Tasers Are a Form of Torture
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
"Secure Elections Act" Coming Up For Vote
A Law to Spy Back on Government Surveillance Cameras?
Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
Artist/Astronomer Exhibits Photos Of Spy Satellites
Author Faces Canadian Tribunal For Hate Speech
Bavarian Police Can Legally Place Trojans On PCs
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
Classified Cyber-Security Directive Puts NSA In Charge
Competitors Ally With Comcast In FCC P2P Filings
DHS Official Suggests REAL ID Mission Creep
Democrats Propose Commission To Investigate Spying
FBI Adds Two Digital Forensic Labs
FBI Lied To Support Need For PATRIOT Act Expansion
FBI Wants Authority To Filter Net Backbone
FCC Revises Broadband Penetration Metrics
FISA Bill Vote Today, With Telco Immunity
Graphics Advances Make Identifying Real Images Difficult
H.R. 4279 Would Establish Federal IP Cops
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
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
MD Bill Would Criminalize Theft of Wireless Access
Nancy Pelosi vs. the Internet
New York to Implement an 'Amazon Tax'
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
Should Microsoft Be Excluded From EU Government Sales?
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
What Will Come of the FCC Comcast Hearing
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
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
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 Decides P2P Isn't All Bad?
Windows 7 Eyed For Antitrust Violations
FBI Hid Patriot Act Abuses
Government Mistakenly Declares Deaths of Citizens
Australian Police Chief Seeks Terror Reporting Ban
Data Retention Proven to Change Citizen Behavior
Sweden On Verge of Passing Sweeping Wiretap Plan
"Hollywood" Howard Berman To Leave Internet Subcommittee
$500,000 Prize for Faster Airport Security Checks
2008 International Broadband Rankings
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
Behind China's Great Firewall
Bill Gates's Wish Is Homeland Security's Command
Billion Dollar Handout To Upgrade TVs
British Village Requests Removal From GPS Maps
California Edges Toward Joining Real ID Revolt
California Sues E-Voting Vendor ES&S
Can Open Source Give Comfort To the Enemy?
Canada May Lose Copyright Fair-Use Rights
Canada's Proposed DMCA-Style Law Draws Fire
Canadian Government Rejects Net Neutrality Rules
Canadian ISP Ordered to Prove Traffic-Shaping is Needed
Canadian Regulator CRTC Saves Independent ISPs
Census Bureau To Scrap Handhelds — Cost $3 Billion
Changing a School's Tech Disposal Policy?
China Continues to Shut Down Video Sites
China's Cyber-Militia
Cisco Offices Raided, Execs Arrested In Brazil
College Funding Bill Passes House, P2P Provision Intact
Companies To Be Liable For Deals With Online Criminals
DARPA Cyber Range Project Doomed to Failure
DOJ To Oversee Windows 7 Development
Deadline For Saying "No" To National ID
Do Not Call Registry Gets Glowing Reviews
DoubleClick Goes MIA At FTC Chief's Old Law Firm
EU Plans to Require Biometrics for Visitors
EU's Anti-Trust Investigation of OOXML Continues
Electronic Transaction Reporting Slipped Into Senate Bill
FAA May Ditch Vista For Linux
FBI File of Lie Detector's Creator
FBI Says Military Had Counterfeit Cisco Routers
FCC Chief Says Comcast Violated Internet Rules
FCC Dealt Setback In BPL Push
FCC Delays Vote On Cable TV Regulation
FCC Goes Halfway On Opening 700 MHz Spectrum
FCC Requires Backup Power For 210K Cell Towers
FCC Seeks Comment In Comcast P2P Investigation
FTC Approves Google-DoubleClick Deal
French Parliament Chooses Ubuntu
Georgia's New State Health Plan Is Google
Government Efficiency and Network Theory
House Votes For Telco Immunity; Obama Will Support?
How Laptops in Education Can Help Dictators, Hurt Learning
How Will Governments Keep Up With Technology?
ISPs Say P4P Negates Need for Net Neutrality Regs
Indefinite Imprisonment For Web Site Content
Internet Based Political "Meta-Party" For Massachusetts
Internet Pirates In France To Lose Broadband
Lawmakers Delay Telco Immunity Vote
Lessig For Congress?
Lessig On Corruption and Reform
Library of Congress's $3M Deal With Microsoft
Making Sense of Census Data With Google Earth
Maryland To Tax Custom Programming and Computer Services
More Details Emerge On Domestic Spying Programs
Municipal WiFi Moves Ahead In Houston
NASA Launches New Science Website
NASA's New Mission to the Moon
NIST Publishes Preview of Math Reference
New FISA Bill Would Grant Telcoms Immunity; Vote Is Tomorrow
New Jersey E-Voting Problems Worse Than Originally Suspected
New Opt-Out Clause Makes CAN-SPAM Worse
New York Decision On ODF Vs. OOXML Approaching
Nielsen Collects FL Tax Breaks, Then Outsources Jobs
Norway Moves Towards Mandatory Use of ODF and PDF