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USA Today

Is Congress so venal and inept as to not fully learn and explain what is going on with telcos helping the government snoop on their constituents's phone calls more than a year after this article came out?

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L.A.R.I.

Legislators Against Real ID, L.A.R.I., is a coalition of states formed to put up a united front against the federal governments effort to impose a national identification program. Update Americans on the progress of the Real ID legislation and to act

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Newsweek

The secret lobbying campaign your phone company doesn't want you to know about. The nation's biggest telecommunications companies, working closely with the White House, have mounted a secretive lobbying campaign to get Congress

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www.infoworld.com

Can't decide if good or bad. Maybe having readers in the hands of the populace will finally show people what is really being tracked. Or make RFID more cool & prevalent? Publisher's note: It'll be bad when you can't turn them off

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Christian Science Monitor

From late 2004 until mid-2006, a little-known data-mining computer system developed by the US Dept of Homeland Security to hunt terrorist, weapons of mass destruction, and biological weapons sifted through Americans' personal data with little reg

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Raw Story

The Dept of Homeland Security's top intelligence, privacy and civil rights officials will be called before Congress next week to explain the Bush adminstration's plan to dramatically expand the domestic use to spy of spy satellites that can s

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Stars and Stripes

Personal records including addresses and Social Security numbers of more than 35,000 veterans and their families were stolen this month from the officies of a POW support organization in Texas, officials announced Friday.

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Christian Science Monitor

(When the Patroit Act is trashed, I'll believe this) First came the FBI's decision in the spring to implement stringent new guidelines to prevent from abusing their authority to issue national security letters, which can be used to gather inf

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AP

National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell pulled the curtain back on previously classified details of government surveillance and of a secretive court whose recent rulings created new hurdles for the Bush adminstration as it tries to prevent terr

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The Newspaper

According to a written request for proposals sent to various speed camera companies, the state police are seeking to include automated number plate recognition (ANPR) technology in its new automated ticketing system.

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Baltimore Sun

Should have seen this one coming. Once the federal government had rationalized its authority to violate the privacy of Americans by tapping their phones, reading their email, surveying their library selections and poking throught their bank records

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Infoworld

The Federation for Identity and Cross-Credentialing Systems(FIXs) -- a little-known group of non-profits, government contractors, commercial entities, and government agencies -- has just unveiled a first-of-its-kind global infrastructure to support

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Wired

A German security researcher who demonstrated last year that he could clone the computer chip in an electronic passport has revealed additional vulnerabilities in the design of the new documents and the inspection systems used to read them.

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Financial Times

Confidential personal data - gleaned from sources as diverse as driving licences, medical records and store loyalty cards - is now often shared without people's knowledge, the information commission will warn on Tuesday, in its latest salvo

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AP

President George Bush called for Congress to revise a US security law in order to ease restrictions on the government's secret communications surveillance of terror suspects. Amid furor over Attorney General Alberto Gonzales's handling of the

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