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Google Profiling Social Network Users
Illinois Bill Would Ban Social Networking Sites
Michael Robertson Sued Over Missing Linspire Cash
Google Claims User Content In Multiple Products
Judge Suppresses Report On Voting Systems
Greek Blog Aggregator Arrested
Maker of Anti-Clinton Video Outed, Loses Job
Senate Votes To Empower Parents As Censors
Facebook Blocks Users From Mentioning BugMeNot.com
Facebook Users Complain of New Ad-Based Tracking
RIAA Loses $222K Verdict
This is How We Catch You Downloading
Tool Detects "In-Flight" Webpage Alterations
Alan Cox Files Patent For DRM
Chicago Law Firm Sues Over Hyperlink To Trademarked Name
Decryption Keys For HD-DVD Found, Confirmed
MS Wants To Identify All Web Surfers
Mandatory DRM for Podcasts Proposed
More States Challenging National Driver's Licenses
MySpace Suicide Charges Threaten Free Speech
MySpace and GoDaddy Shut Down Security Site
RIAA Admits ISPs Have Misidentified "John Does"
RIAA Receives Stern Letter, Folds
Restrictions On Social Sites Proposed In Georgia
Senate Judiciary Committee Approves Copyright Cops
State Trooper Fights For His Source Code
Viacom Claims Copyright On Irrlicht Video
Your House Is About To Be Photographed
Listening To The Radio At Work? Prepare To Be Sued
Microsoft Says Free Software Violates 235 Patents
Why the RIAA Doesn't Want Defendants Exonerated
AACS Vows to Fight Bloggers
AT&T to Help MPAA Filter the Internet?
Amazon Erases Orders To Cover Up Pricing Mistake
Bell Canada Throttles Wholesalers Without Notice
Boston Bans Boing Boing From City Wi-Fi
Cable Packet Shaping Causing Slowdowns
Canadian Bill C-416 to Require Wiretapping
Canadian Copyright Group Wants iPod Tax
Canadian Government Rejects Net Neutrality Rules
City Sues To Prevent Linking To Its Website
DHS Allowed To Take Laptops Indefinitely
DRM — It's Not Really About Piracy
Diebold Goes 0 For 3 In Massachusetts Case
Digg.com Attempts To Suppress HD-DVD Revolt
EFF Lands a Blow On DirecTV
EU Commissioner Calls For Censorship of Web Search
EU Court Says File Sharers Don't Have To Be Named
FTC To Take a Second Look at P2P
Fair Use Must Be Considered In DMCA Notices
Fight DRM While There's Still Time
German Police May Not Break Into a Suspect's PC
Germany Rejects Microsoft FAT Patent
Gilmore Loses Airport ID Case
Google Turns Over Data on Suspected Pedophiles In Brazil
Hans Reiser Guilty of First Degree Murder
How to Turn A Music Lover to Piracy
IOC Trademarks Part of Canadian National Anthem
ISP Tracking Legislation Hits the House
If IP Is Property, Where Is the Property Tax?
Internet Curfew for College Students?
Jail for Selling Email Lists to Spammers
Leaked ACTA Treaty to Outlaw P2P?
MLB Fans Who Bought DRM Videos Get Hosed
Mediasentry Violates Cease & Desist Order
Microsoft Misleads On Canadian Copyright Reform
Mozilla Nixes Firefox EULA Requirement
MySpace Agrees to Share Sex Offender Data
No Passport For Britons Refusing Mass Surveillance
Olympic Web Site Features Pirated Content
P2P BitTorrent Tool Could Replace Pirate Bay
Patents Don't Pay
Pete Ashdown on his Run at the Hill
Privacy and the "Nothing To Hide" Argument
Public Iris Scanning Device In the Works
Qtrax — Ad-Supported Music With iPod Compatibility?
RIAA Sues Usenet.com
Retailer Refuses Hardware Repair Due To Linux
Rick Rubin Discloses Sony Rootkit Called Home
Sen. Ted Stevens Introduces "Son of DOPA"
Share a News Story With Coworkers, Pay a Fine
Skype Gives Up Anti-GPL Appeal
Student Expelled For Facebook Photo Description
Students In UK Tracked With RFID Chips
Teens Prosecuted For Racy Photos
The 5 Most Laughable Terms of Service On the Net
US Policy Would Allow Government Access to Any Email
US Senate Fails To Reinstate Habeas Corpus
US-Made Censorware Used To Oppress Burma
University Professor Chastised For Using Tor
Verizon Wireless Opt-Out Plan For Customer Records
Vista a Threat to Internet Freedom?
Web Accessibility Gets a Boost In California Court
Who Controls Your Television?
Why the RIAA Really Hates Downloads
Wikileaks Airs Scientology Black Ops
Will W3C Accept DRM For Webfonts?
Would You Rent a Song For a Dime?
Yahoo, Adobe To Serve Ads In PDFs
YouTube Hands Over User Info To Fox
YouTube Set To Filter Content
AC = Domestic Terrorists?
Anti-Spam Suits and Booby-Trapped Motions
Are Wikileaks Servers In a Nuclear Bunker?
Australia to Offer Widespread ISP-level Filtering
Berners-Lee Rejects Tracking
Big Six UK ISPs Capitulate To Music Industry
Bot-avatar Pesters Second Life Users (For Science!)
Canada May Tax Legal Music Downloads
China - We Don't Censor the Internet
Class Action Complaint Against RIAA Now Online
Collapsed UK Bank Attempts to Censor Wikileaks
DHS Wants Master Key for DNS
Did SCO Get Linux-mob Justice?
EFF, ACLU Back WikiLeaks
Eavesdropping Helpful Against Terrorist Plot [UPDATED]
German Govt. Skype Interception Trojans Revealed
Google's Data-Storage Fuels Privacy Fears
Hans Reiser Interview on ABC's 20/20
ISPs May Be Selling Your Web Clicks
Iran to Filter 'Immoral' Mobile Messages
Japanese Bureaucrats Reprimanded for Wikipedia Editing
Judge Munley is So Out of My Top 8
Live Blogs From the Hans Reiser Trial
MSN Censors Your IM
Microsoft WGA Phones Home Even When Told No
Net Neutrality Summit
New Royalty Rates Could Kill Internet Radio
Optimum Copyright Period Decided by Math
Privatunes Anonymizes iTunes Plus
Provider of Free Public Domain Music Shuts Down
Questionable Data Mining Concerns IRC Community
Ray Beckerman Sued By the RIAA
Seagate May Sue if Solid State Disks Get Popular
Second Life Mogul Challenges Press Freedom
Senate Bill Again Aims to Restrict Internet Radio
Skype Messages Monitored In China
Software Company Sues Popular Australian Forum
Spyware Still Cheating Merchants
Sweden to Give Courts New Power to Hunt IP Infringers
Syrian Blogger Sentenced to Three Years in Jail
Telecom Immunity -- We're Down to the Wire(tap)
Thai Government To Close 400 Anti-government Sites
The Advertisers are Watching You
Torvalds Says Microsoft is Bluffing on Patents
US Courts Consider Legality of Laptop Inspection
VeriChip Implants 222 People With RFID
Why You & Yahoo Should Like This Human Rights Law
Yahoo Confirms Beijing Blocking Flickr
Yahoo Rejects Anti-Censorship Proposal
Yahoo Sued for Giving User Information to China
Yes Virginia, ISPs Have Silently Blocked Web Sites
RIAA Caught in Tough Legal Situation
Senators Call for Universal Internet Filtering
US Group Wants Canada Blacklisted Over Piracy
Woman Wins Right to Criticize Surgeon on Website
Northeastern University Sues Google Over Patent
Uri Geller Accused of Bending Copyright Law
"Clear" Air-Travel Pass Data Stolen From SFO
$360M Patent Suit Over iPhone Voicemail
$500M Piracy Ring Busted In China
80 Gbps Deep Packet Inspection Hardware Announced
A Comparative Study of Internet Censorship
A Year In Prison For a 20-Second Film Clip?
AACS Device Key Found
ACLU Warns of Next Pass At Telecom Immunity
AMD NDA Scandal
AMD's New DRM
AT&T Says Spying Is Too Secret For Courts
Aboriginal Archive Uses New DRM
Ads With Your Name On Them
Airlines Have to Ask Permission to Fly 72 Hours Early
All Fifty States May Face Voting Machine Lawsuit
Allofmp3 Restarts Business
Amazon Adjusts Prices After Sales Error
Amazon Patents Humans Assisting Computers
An Acerbic Look At the Future of Reading
An Epidemic of Snooping
Another Sony Rootkit?
Apple Files Suit Against Psystar
Apple Hides Account Info in DRM-Free Music
Apple Sends Cease-and-Desist To the Hymn Project
Aussie Cops Want Powers To Search Any Computer
Australian Ban On Fallout 3 – Why?
Author of ATSC Capture and Edit Tool Tries to Revoke GPL
BBC "Not In Bed With Bill Gates"
BBC Quietly Announces Linux/Mac iPlayer
BBC's iPlayer's Prospects Looking Bleak
Bank Julius Baer Issues Statement On WikiLeaks
Beijing Police To Launch Animated Web Patrols
Belgian ISP Forced To Block P2P Traffic
Bell's Own Data Exposes P2P As a Red Herring
Best Buy Customer Gets Box Full of Bathroom Tiles Instead of Hard Drive
Billion Dollar Handout To Upgrade TVs
Blackboard Wins Patent Suit Against Desire2Learn
Brain Differences In Liberals and Conservatives
Breathalyzer Source Code Revealed
BusinessWeek Takes On the RIAA
C-SPAN Adopts Creative Commons-Style License
California Blocks RFID Implants In Workers