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YouTube Must Give All User Histories To Viacom
Reporter Phone Records Being Used to Find Leaks
ACLU Creates Map of US "Constitution-Free Zone"
Gonzales Wants ISP Data Retention To Curb Child Porn
More Details of the NSA's Social Network Analysis
MS Wants To Identify All Web Surfers
Patriot Act Bypasses Facebook Privacy
Verizon Employees Fired For Snooping Obama's Record
Why Web 2.0 Will End Your Privacy
Gov't Computers Used to Find Info on "Joe the Plumber"
Wired Releases Full Text of AT&T NSA Document
Blu-ray Update Sent To User Via Credit Card Records
Facebook's New Terms of Service
The Face of One AOL Searcher Exposed
Wiretapping Program Ruled Legal
New Law Will Require Camera Phones To "Click"
UK Police To Step Up Hacking of Home PCs
A DNA Database For All U.S. Workers?
Americans Not Bothered by NSA Spying
AOL Releases Search Logs of 657,427 Users
FBI Planning New Net-Tapping Push
Give Up the Fight For Personal Privacy?
NSA Whistleblowers Reveal Extent of Eavesdropping
School Admins Demand Access to Students' Cellphones
The Personal Genome Project Hits the Web
Tool To Allow ISPs To Scan Every File You Transmit
UK Outlines Plan For Internet Black Boxes
Under the Hood of AT&T's Monitoring System
Vista is Watching You
Will ParanoidLinux Protect the Truly Paranoid?
Zimmermann, Encrypted VoIP, and Uncle Sam
EU Court Blocks Passenger Data Deal with U.S.
A Linux-Based "Breath Test" For Porn On PCs
AT&T Forwarding All Internet Traffic to NSA?
Bush Claims Mail Can Be Opened Without Warrant
Canadian ISP Shoulder Surfing
Facebook Scrambles To Contain ToS Fallout
Google Maps To Add 'Friend' GPS Tracking
Maryland Police Put Activists' Names On Terror List
Obama Sides With Bush In Spy Case
U.S. Gov't Spent $30M On Citizens' Personal Info
UK Government Says More Spying Needed
Wiretap Whistleblower, a Life in Limbo?
iTunes DRM-Free Files Contain Personal Info
AT&T, Comcast To Join RIAA Team
Anonymous Anger Rampant On the Web
Microsoft WGA Phones Home Even When Told No
Tracking People Using Bluetooth
US Courts Consider Legality of Laptop Inspection
AT&T Rewrites Privacy Policy
CCTV Cameras In UK Get Loudspeakers
Privacy Threat in New RFID Travel Cards?
Privacy and the "Nothing To Hide" Argument
Sex Offender E-Mail Registry Signed Into Law
US–EU Flight Talks Collapse
Whistleblower Claims NSA Spied On Everyone, Targeted Media
Microsoft Adds Risky System-Wide Undelete to Vista
Proposal to Implant RFID Chips in Immigrants
China To Photograph All Internet Cafe Customers
Company Makes Inconspicuous Secure Cellphone
Court Demands Private Facebook Data
Esther Dyson Grudgingly Defends Internet Anonymity
Google Unofficially Announces GDrive By Leaked Code
Kent State Banning Athletes from Using Facebook
License Plate Tracking for the Average Citizen
Microsoft Helps Police Crack Your Computer
Obama Administration Defends Warrantless Wiretapping
Rick Rubin Discloses Sony Rootkit Called Home
The Privacy Candidate
Tips For Taking Your Laptop Into and Out of the US?
Verizon to Launch Mobile 'Chaperone' Service
YouTube Hands Over User Info To Fox
"Smash Your Hard Drive" To Fight Identity Theft
Big Mother Is Watching
CCTVs Don't Work in the UK
Controversy Erupts Over Craigslist Prank
EFF Case Against AT&T To Go Forward
Facebook Users Complain of New Ad-Based Tracking
Free Phone Calls... If Advertisers Can Eavesdrop
German Govt. Skype Interception Trojans Revealed
Google May Close Gmail Germany Over Privacy Law
Google Moving PRC Records Out of China
House Panel Approves Electronic Surveillance Bill
IT Repair Installs Webcam Spying Software
Keeping an Eye on Government Snooping
London 2006, Meet London 1984
Microsoft Joins the OpenID Foundation
NSA Had Domestic Call Monitoring Before 9/11?
NSA To Datamine Social Networking Sites
Telecoms Facing $50 Billion Lawsuit for Wiretaps
U.S. Government Demands ISP Data Retention
U.S. to Gain Access to EU Retained Data
UK Police Want DNA of 'Potential Offenders'
Vast DNA Bank Pits Policing Vs. Privacy
VeriChip Implants 222 People With RFID
Every Email In UK To Be Monitored
Combining BitTorrent With Darknets For P2P Privacy
Court Rules That Palin Must Save Yahoo Emails
Duplicating Your Housekeys, From a Distance
European Crackdown On Skype "Loophole"
European Police Plan to Remote-Search Hard Drives
Financial Responsibility == Terrorism?
Google Begins Blurring Faces In Street View
Google Reader Begins Sharing Private Data
Google to Track TV Viewers More Closely
In Finland, Nokia May Get Its Own Snooping Law
Irish GSM Providers Asked to Track Users' Web Use
Judge Rules NSA Wiretapping Unconstitutional
Man Arrested for Refusing to Show Drivers License
NSA Is Building a New Datacenter In San Antonio
New State Laws Could Make Encryption Widespread
Obama's Mobile Phone Records Compromised, Shared
Oregon Governor Proposes Vehicle Mileage Tax
Phishers Defeat Citibank's 2-Factor Authentication
The Drawbacks of Anonymous Surfing
UK Government To Outsource Data Snooping and Storage
US Policy Would Allow Government Access to Any Email
Verizon Wireless Opt-Out Plan For Customer Records
Web Hosting For Privacy Activists?
Your House Is About To Be Photographed
Microsoft Talks Daily With Your Computer
Big Brother Really Is Watching Us All
Houston Police Chief Wants Cameras in Homes
Journalists Can't Hide News From the Internet
Judge Orders Deleted Emails Turned Over
TiVo Selling Data on Users' Watching Habits
20 Hours a Month Reading Privacy Policies
AOL Subscribers Sue Over Release Of Search Data
Analyzing 20,000 MySpace Passwords
Anti-Terrorist Data Mining Doesn't Work Very Well
Behavioral Search & Advertising On Its Way?
Big Brother Wants Into VoIP At Any Cost
Boardroom Spying Debacle at HP
Bush Admin. Appoints Civil-Liberties Officer
California Blocks RFID Implants In Workers
Cambridge, Mass. Moves To Nix Security Cameras
Canadian Bill C-416 to Require Wiretapping
Chinese Govt Limits Kids to 3hrs of Online Gaming
Comcast Charges $1000 Per Wiretap
Comcast Is Reading Your Blog
Congress To Restrict Social Security Number Use
Death by Google Calendar
Defeating Google's Perpetual Search Logging
EFF Says Obama Warrantless Wiretap Defense Is Worse than Bush
EU Council Refuses To Release ACTA Documents
EU Wants Air Passenger Data Collected
Firefox Add-On To Track Your Location Via Wi-Fi
Flash Cookies, a Little-Known Privacy Threat
German TOR Servers Seized
Government May Help Bells Defend Against Wiretap Suits
Hacker Club Publishes German Official's Fingerprint
IRS to Allow Tax Preparers to Sell Your Info?
ISPs Using "Deep Packet Inspection" On 100,000 Users
In Japan, a Billboard That Watches You
More Warnings Against Oversharing on MySpace
NJ Bill Would Prohibit Anonymous Posts on Forums
NSA Chose Invasive Phone Analysis Option
NSA Spying Comes Under Attack
New Ads That Watch You
New Bill To Rein In DHS Laptop Seizures
Newest Job Qualification — A Good Credit History
Nuclear Scanning Catches a Radioactive Cat On I-5
Planning the Future of Privacy at Microsoft
Privacy In BitTorrent By Hiding In the Crowd
Project Turns GPS Phones Into Traffic Reporters
Questionable Data Mining Concerns IRC Community
RFID Passports Raise Safety Concerns
Real Name For Open Source Development?
Replacing Metal Detectors With Brain Scans
Researchers Find Problems With RFID Passport Cards
Searching DNA For Relatives Raises Concerns
Security Checkpoints Predict What You Will Do
Senate Committee Votes to Authorize Warrentless Wiretapping
Senator Proposes to Monitor All P2P Traffic for Illegal Files
Single Drive Wipe Protects Data
Support for U.S. Mandatory Data Retention Laws
The AT&T Whistleblower's Evidence
The Advertisers are Watching You
The NSA Knows Who You've Called
Tor Used To Collect Embassy Email Passwords
TrapCall Service To Bypass Caller ID Blocking
U.S. Government Intervenes in EFF vs. AT&T
U.S. Secretly Tapping Bank Databases
UK Cops Want "Breathalyzers" For PCs
UK ISPs To Start Tracking Your Surfing To Serve You Ads
Using Speed Cameras To Send Tickets To Your Enemies
Virgin Media To Spy On & Threaten Downloaders
Washington State Wants DNA From All Arrestees
White House Exempts YouTube From Web Privacy Rules
Wisconsin Could Ban Mandatory Microchip Implants
Your Medical Treatment History Is For Sale
MPAA training Dogs to Sniff Out DVDs
70% of P2P Users Would Stop if Warned by ISP
All US Border Crossings Now Require A 'Terrorist Risk Profile'
Bill Could Restrict Freedom of the Press
Card Processing Software May Store CC Info
China To Deploy World's Largest People Tracking Network
Crashing the Wiretapper's Ball
Eavesdropping Helpful Against Terrorist Plot [UPDATED]
Google Avoids Surrendering Search Info