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Pentagon Reveals News Correction Unit
Tool To Allow ISPs To Scan Every File You Transmit
Obama Proposes Digital Health Records
UK Government Wants Private Encryption Keys
Aussies Hit the Streets Over Gov't Internet Filters
ThePirateBay.org Raided and Shut Down
UK Outlines Plan For Internet Black Boxes
UK Police To Step Up Hacking of Home PCs
Collateral Damage as UK Censors Internet Archive
Germany Legislates For Mandatory Web Filters
Patriot Act Bypasses Facebook Privacy
Wiretapping Lawsuit Against AT&T Dismissed
CCTV Cameras In UK Get Loudspeakers
Oregon Governor Proposes Vehicle Mileage Tax
'Big Brother' Eyes Make Us Act More Honestly
A DNA Database For All U.S. Workers?
Reporter Phone Records Being Used to Find Leaks
Google Maps To Add 'Friend' GPS Tracking
No Passport For Britons Refusing Mass Surveillance
Police Launch Drones Over LA
Every Email In UK To Be Monitored
Washington State Wants DNA From All Arrestees
Interpol Pushing World Facial Recognition Database
Lip-Reading Surveillance Cameras
U.S. Secretly Tapping Bank Databases
UK School Introduces Facial Recognition
Canadian ISP Shoulder Surfing
Congress May Add Record Requirements to MySpace
House Approves Warrantless Wiretapping
More Details of the NSA's Social Network Analysis
Replacing Metal Detectors With Brain Scans
Visitors To US Now Required To Register Online
Proposal to Implant RFID Chips in Immigrants
Gonzales Says Publishing Leaks Is A Crime
Gonzales Wants ISP Data Retention To Curb Child Porn
Wiretap Whistleblower, a Life in Limbo?
Chinese Govt Limits Kids to 3hrs of Online Gaming
Unbelievably Large Telescopes On the Moon?
VeriChip Implants 222 People With RFID
Local Police Want To Jam Wireless Signals
Nation-Wide Internet Censorship Proposed For Australia
Searching DNA For Relatives Raises Concerns
State of Ohio Establishes "Pre-Crime" Registry
US Policy Would Allow Government Access to Any Email
Airships to Patrol Venezuela's Skies
AT&T Forwarding All Internet Traffic to NSA?
China To Photograph All Internet Cafe Customers
FBI Planning New Net-Tapping Push
Google to Track TV Viewers More Closely
Hong Kong Using Children to Hunt for Piracy
ISPs to Create Database to Combat Child Porn
London Police Seek To Install CCTV In Pubs
New Ads That Watch You
New Congressional Bill Makes DMCA Look Tame
Next G8 President Wants To "Regulate the Internet"
To Curb Truancy, Dallas Tries Electronic Monitoring
UK Government Plans 10-Year Database of Citizens' Travel
UK Government Says More Spying Needed
Higher Education Fears Wiretapping Law
Homeland Security's Tech Wonders
NSA To Datamine Social Networking Sites
U.S. Government Intervenes in EFF vs. AT&T
Video Surveillance Identifies Threat Patterns
A Peek At DHS's Files On You
Air Marshals Place Innocents on Secret Watch List
Apple's All-Seeing Screen
Bush Claims Mail Can Be Opened Without Warrant
FBI To Spend $1B Expanding Fingerprint Database
Largest Aussie ISP Agrees To "Ridiculous" Net-Filter Trial
National Car Tracking System Proposed For US
U.S. Gov't Spent $30M On Citizens' Personal Info
Americans Not Bothered by NSA Spying
NSA Had Domestic Call Monitoring Before 9/11?
Photograph the Police, Get Arrested
Germany Searches Credit Cards For Child Porn Payments
ISP Tracking Legislation Hits the House
In Japan, a Billboard That Watches You
In Soviet US, Comcast Watches YOU
MS Seeks Patent For Repossessing School Computers
New TN Law Forces Universities To Patrol For Copyright Violations
Project Turns GPS Phones Into Traffic Reporters
The NSA Knows Who You've Called
The Pentagon Wants a 'TiVo' to Watch You
U.S. Pressures ISPs on Data Retention
UK Gov't Proposes Massive Internet Snooping, Data Storage
US Government Restricting Research Libraries
Big Brother Wants Into VoIP At Any Cost
House Panel Approves Electronic Surveillance Bill
The UK's Total Surveillance
Vast DNA Bank Pits Policing Vs. Privacy
Audit Finds FBI Abused Patriot Act
Australia Mulling a Nationwide Vehicle-Tracking System
Bush Demands Amnesty for Spying Telecoms
China's All-Seeing Eye
Cities View Red Light Cameras As Profit Centers
DARPA Contract Hints At Real-Time Video Spying
DHS Allowed To Take Laptops Indefinitely
Gilmore Loses Airport ID Case
New York Plans Surveillance Veil For Downtown
New Zealand's Recording Industry CEO Tries to Defend New Draconian Law
Police Given Access to Congestion-Charge Cameras
US Visitor Fingerprints To Be (Perhaps) Stored by FBI
CCTVs Don't Work in the UK
China To Deploy World's Largest People Tracking Network
DHS Wants Master Key for DNS
Government May Help Bells Defend Against Wiretap Suits
London 2006, Meet London 1984
Newest Job Qualification — A Good Credit History
School Admins Demand Access to Students' Cellphones
Senator Proposes to Monitor All P2P Traffic for Illegal Files
Three Years in Prison for Posting Hatespeak
UK Hackers Face Antisocial Behaviour Orders
UK Police Want DNA of 'Potential Offenders'
Australian Government Censorship 'Worse Than Iran'
Canadian Bill C-416 to Require Wiretapping
FBI Says Paper Trails Are Optional
Feds Check Credit Reports Without a Subpoena
Financial Responsibility == Terrorism?
Google to Use PC Microphones to Listen In?
India Joins China in Censoring Websites
My Genome, My Self?
New Plan In UK For "Big Brother" Database
Senate Committee Votes to Authorize Warrentless Wiretapping
Surveillance Cameras Get Smarter
Verizon to Launch Mobile 'Chaperone' Service
Big Brother Really Is Watching Us All
National Intelligence Director Seeks Expansion of Spy Powers
U.S. Government Demands ISP Data Retention
As of October, FBI To Allow Warrantless Investigations
Judge Rules NSA Wiretapping Unconstitutional
MS Wants To Identify All Web Surfers
Students In UK Tracked With RFID Chips
Sweden Admits Tapping Citizens' Phones for Decades
Teen Creates Device to Track Speeding
Total Phone and Email Database Proposed In UK
Whistleblower Claims NSA Spied On Everyone, Targeted Media
A Surveillance Camera On Every Chicago Street Corner?
Bioethics Group Raises DNA Database Concerns
EU Court Blocks Passenger Data Deal with U.S.
MA Attorney General Seeks Myspace Changes
Microsoft Uses WGA To Obtain Record Jail Sentences
Mind How You Walk - Someone is Watching
NYC 911 to Accept Cellphone Pics and Video
Skype Messages Monitored In China
UK Has Become a "Surveillance Society"
UK Taps 439,000 Phones, Now Wants To Monitor MPs
US Courts Consider Legality of Laptop Inspection
US Wants Courts to OK Warrantless Email Snooping
Has Orwell's '1984' Come 22 Years Later?
Passport Required To Buy Mobile Phones In the UK
130 Filesharer Homes Raided in Germany
AT&T Says Spying Is Too Secret For Courts
Company Makes Inconspicuous Secure Cellphone
Councils Recruit Unpaid Volunteers To Spy On Their Neighbors
EU Data-Retention Laws Stricter Than Many People Realized
Europe Moves To Track Phone and Net Use
FBI Wants Authority To Filter Net Backbone
Homeland Security To Scan Citizens Exiting US
Indian GPS Cartographers Charged As Terrorists
Judge Says, Record DNA of Everyone In the UK
Leaked Government Doc Reveals UK ID "Coercion" Plans
Mandatory Keyloggers in Mumbai's Cyber Cafes
Political Bloggers May Be Forced to Register
Possession of Violent Pornography Outlawed in UK
Speculation On Large-Scale Phone Location Snooping
UK's Blair Dismisses Online Anti ID-Card Petition
US To Employ Overhead Spying Domestically
US–EU Flight Talks Collapse
Under the Hood of AT&T's Monitoring System
Why Does Skype Read the BIOS?
Widespread Spying Preceded '04 GOP Convention
Homeland Security's Space-Based Spying Goes Live
All US Border Crossings Now Require A 'Terrorist Risk Profile'
Congress May Consider Mandatory ISP Snooping
E-Passport In the Works
EU and US Reach Deal On Airline Data
Government Adds Consumer Databases To Mining Queries
Keeping an Eye on Government Snooping
The Fine Print On Wiretapping Review
"Mobile Plate Hunter" Cameras Raise Questions
A Guardian Angel In Your Cell Phone
Aerial Drones To Help Cops In Miami
Beijing Police To Launch Animated Web Patrols
Bugged Canadian Coins?
China Creates Massive Online ID Database
Cybercrime Treaty — Hidden Costs For All
DHS To Share Spy Satellite Data Over the US
Dodd, Feingold To Try and Filibuster Immunity Bill
Draconian DRM Revealed In Windows 7
EFF Case Against AT&T To Go Forward
EFF Says Obama Warrantless Wiretap Defense Is Worse than Bush
Electronic Transaction Reporting Slipped Into Senate Bill
FBI Foils Attack by Monitoring Chat Rooms
FBI Lied To Support Need For PATRIOT Act Expansion
FBI Releases Secret Subpoena Information
FBI Remotely Installs Spyware to Trace Bomb Threat
FBI Seeks To Restrict University Student Freedoms
Home Science Under Attack In Massachusetts
Hotel Connectivity Provider SuperClick Tracks You
House Approves Warrantless Wiretapping Extension