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Verizon Employees Fired For Snooping Obama's Record
Facebook's New Terms of Service
China Strangles Tor Ahead of National Day
Real-LIfe Distributed-Snooping Web Game To Launch In Britain
ACLU Creates Map of US "Constitution-Free Zone"
Blu-ray Update Sent To User Via Credit Card Records
CIA Invests In Firm That Datamines Social Networks
FBI Investigates Liberator of Court Records
Google's Reach Hits Your Tivo
Pirate Bay Launches Free Speech Blog
Wiretapping Program Ruled Legal
Anonymous Anger Rampant On the Web
Real Name For Open Source Development?
Whistleblower Claims NSA Spied On Everyone, Targeted Media
Blizzard Seeks to Block User Rights, Privacy
Chinese Govt Limits Kids to 3hrs of Online Gaming
Google Assists In Arrest Of Indian Man
The Privacy Candidate
Vista is Watching You
"Smash Your Hard Drive" To Fight Identity Theft
VeriChip Implants 222 People With RFID
Privacy In BitTorrent By Hiding In the Crowd
US Courts Consider Legality of Laptop Inspection
Facebook Scrambles To Contain ToS Fallout
A Linux-Based "Breath Test" For Porn On PCs
NSA Whistleblowers Reveal Extent of Eavesdropping
Swiss Bank Secrecy Under Renewed Attack
Give Up the Fight For Personal Privacy?
ISPs Using "Deep Packet Inspection" On 100,000 Users
"Wiretapping" Charges May Be Oddest Ever Recorded
158 Million Records Exposed (And Counting)
Berners-Lee Rejects Tracking
Brightnets are Owner Free File Systems
CCTVs Don't Work in the UK
Concerns Over Microsoft's Internet User Profiling
Deluge Anonymizing Browser Now Includes Bittorrent
Digital Watermarks to Replace DRM
EFF Says Burning Man Usurps Digital Rights
Eat, Drink, and be Monitored
FBI Remotely Installs Spyware to Trace Bomb Threat
Fighting Back Against Ghost Calls
Google Chrome Spinoff 'Iron' For Privacy Fanatics
How Private Are Sites' Membership Lists?
IT Repair Installs Webcam Spying Software
Is Apple Tracking iPhone Users Through IMEI?
MSN Censors Your IM
Obama Losing Voters Over FISA Support
Presidential Candidates and Online Privacy
Privacy Policies Are Great — For PhDs
Privatunes Anonymizes iTunes Plus
Questionable Data Mining Concerns IRC Community
RMS and Clipperz Promoting Freedom In the Cloud
Researchers Face Jail Risk For Tor Snooping Study
Soldiers Can't Blog Without Approval
Swedish Court Says IP Numbers Privacy Protected
The FBI Has a Trojan To Watch You
The Hidden Secrets of Online Quizzes
The Technology Keeping Information Flowing in Iran
Tracking People Using Bluetooth
UK Government To Monitor All Internet Use
Viacom Vs. YouTube, Beyond Privacy
Virgin Media To Spy On & Threaten Downloaders
What MSN, Google, Yahoo and AOL Know About You
Who's Trading Your E-mail Addresses?
Wireless Network Modded To See Through Walls
Sex Offender E-Mail Registry Signed Into Law
UK ISPs To Hand Over Thousands of File Sharers' Data
UK Outlines Plan For Internet Black Boxes
Tool To Allow ISPs To Scan Every File You Transmit
Duplicating Your Housekeys, From a Distance
White House Exempts YouTube From Web Privacy Rules
New State Laws Could Make Encryption Widespread
Tips For Taking Your Laptop Into and Out of the US?
Searching DNA For Relatives Raises Concerns
Firefox Add-On To Track Your Location Via Wi-Fi
Aerial Drones To Help Cops In Miami
Nanaimo, The Google Capital of the World
Obama Administration Defends Warrantless Wiretapping
Gov't Computers Used to Find Info on "Joe the Plumber"
20 Hours a Month Reading Privacy Policies
Combining BitTorrent With Darknets For P2P Privacy
Your House Is About To Be Photographed
Google Reader Begins Sharing Private Data
Wiretap Whistleblower, a Life in Limbo?
Will ParanoidLinux Protect the Truly Paranoid?
Cambridge, Mass. Moves To Nix Security Cameras
Court Demands Private Facebook Data
Court Rules That Palin Must Save Yahoo Emails
Obama Sides With Bush In Spy Case
Obama's Mobile Phone Records Compromised, Shared
iTunes DRM-Free Files Contain Personal Info
Google Maps To Add 'Friend' GPS Tracking
Microsoft Helps Police Crack Your Computer
"Reality Mining" Resets the Privacy Debate
UK Police To Step Up Hacking of Home PCs
UK Government Says More Spying Needed
Smart Grid Could Pose Threat To Privacy
Medical Privacy Laws Highly Ineffectual
UK's Blair Dismisses Online Anti ID-Card Petition
Germany Seeks Expansion of Computer Spying
Websites Still Failing Basic Privacy Practices
DHS Allowed To Take Laptops Indefinitely
The Electronic Bastille
Google Privacy Counsel Facing Criminal Charges
After 3 Years, Freenet 0.7 Released
Anti-Terrorist Data Mining Doesn't Work Very Well
Verizon Exposes the Wrong 1,200 Email Addresses
Leaked Government Doc Reveals UK ID "Coercion" Plans
Company Makes Inconspicuous Secure Cellphone
E-gold Owners Plead Guilty To Money Laundering
New Bill To Rein In DHS Laptop Seizures
Concerns About ACTA In EU, Canada
Replacing Metal Detectors With Brain Scans
DARPA Contract Hints At Real-Time Video Spying
Esther Dyson Grudgingly Defends Internet Anonymity
Google Earth 5.0 Silently Changes Update Policy
Sending Secret Messages Via Google's SearchWiki
China To Photograph All Internet Cafe Customers
McCain Supports Warrantless Domestic Surveillance
34 ISPs Subpoenaed By U.S. Government
Oregon Governor Proposes Vehicle Mileage Tax
Handling Caller ID Spoofing?
Bill Would Require ISPs, Wi-Fi Users To Keep Logs
An FBI Agent's 3 Years Undercover With Identity Thieves
Repairing / Establishing Online Reputation?
Watching the IPRED Watchers In Sweden
Security Checkpoints Predict What You Will Do
Europe Moves To Track Phone and Net Use
Privacy Concerns Over Google On the Rise In Germany
As of October, FBI To Allow Warrantless Investigations
Councils Recruit Unpaid Volunteers To Spy On Their Neighbors
FBI ISP Letters May Have Violated Free Speech
FBI Says Paper Trails Are Optional
Hashing Email Addresses For Web Considered Harmful
iPhone Takes Screenshots of Everything You Do
Kazaa Founder Wants Us To Find "Legitimate" Files
Irish GSM Providers Asked to Track Users' Web Use
Using Speed Cameras To Send Tickets To Your Enemies
Swiss Banks Making Concessions On Secrecy
Google Begins Blurring Faces In Street View
UK School Introduces Facial Recognition
Maryland Court Weighs Internet Anonymity
Thai Premier Spams Nation, Prompts Consumer Outcry
Eavesdropping Didn't Help Uncover Terrorist Plot
Linked In Or Out?
NSA Is Building a New Datacenter In San Antonio
Public Iris Scanning Device In the Works
MS Wants To Identify All Web Surfers
Feds Can Locate Cell Phones Without Telcos
McCain Campaign Sells Info-Loaded Blackberry PDAs
Interpol Pushing World Facial Recognition Database
Nuclear Scanning Catches a Radioactive Cat On I-5
US "Fusion Centers" For Intelligence Sharing
TrapCall Service To Bypass Caller ID Blocking
How Tor Helps Both Dissidents and the Police
Mozilla Labs Wants To Monitor (Volunteers') Firefox Use
Protecting Online Identity Through Cryptography
Restrictions On Social Sites Proposed In Georgia
The Taxman's Web Spider Cometh
Google Turns Over Data on Suspected Pedophiles In Brazil
Google's Streetview Seen As Culturally Insensitive In Japan
Comcast DNS Redirection Launched In Trial Markets
Privacy and the "Nothing To Hide" Argument
FISA Bill Vote Today, With Telco Immunity
EU Wants Air Passenger Data Collected
Web Hosting For Privacy Activists?
ACLU Protests Police Scanning License Plates
Hitachi's Tiny RFID Chips
Anti-Keylogging Recommendations?
The Shady Business Practices of Classmates.com
Bootkit Bypasses TrueCrypt Encryption
Bush Demands Amnesty for Spying Telecoms
"Breathtakingly Stupid" EU Cookie Law Passes
3D Fingerprinting — Touchless, More Accurate, and Faster
Anonymous Browsing On Android Phones Using Tor
Comcast's War On Infected PCs (Or All Customers)
Shedding Your Identity In the Digital Age
Wiretapping Law Sparks Rage In Sweden
Senate Passes Telecom Immunity Bill
Delete Cookies, Inflate Net Traffic Estimates
European Police Plan to Remote-Search Hard Drives
China's All-Seeing Eye
A Peek At DHS's Files On You
Eye In the Sky For City Crime Fighting
State Secrets Defense Rejected In Wiretapping Case
The Emerging Science of DNA Cryptography
UK ISPs To Start Tracking Your Surfing To Serve You Ads
Speculation On Large-Scale Phone Location Snooping
Montana City Requires Workers' Internet Accounts
Database of All UK Children Launched
Implanted RFID Chips Linked To Cancer
RCMP Won't Go After Personal Filesharers
Researchers Find Problems With RFID Passport Cards
Canadian Bill C-416 to Require Wiretapping
What Web Surfers Can Find Out About You
Olympic Tickets Contain Microchip With Your Data
Washington State To Try RFID Drivers Licenses
Google Can Predict the Flu
European Crackdown On Skype "Loophole"
Data Breach Notices Show Tip of the Iceberg