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Slashdot.org

"The Canadian government is secretly negotiating to join the US and the EU in an Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. The agreement would give border guards the power to search iPods and cellphones for illegal downloads, as well as to force ISPs

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EFF

The hub of the spying program may be just outside of St. Louis, in a Missouri town called Bridgeton. A special report puts the pieces together in a comprehensive and disturbing story about this dragnet surveillance, with the help of AT&T whistleblowe

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Arizona Daily Star

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services wants to see your ID. More specifically, they want to put your driver's license photo in E-Verify, a nationwide database that employers in Arizona must use to check your eligibility for work.

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YouTube - ACORN, ACLU, Flex Your Rights

ACLU, Flex Your Rights, and ACORN volunteers go door-to-door in Southeast DC educating residents about their 4th Amendment right to refuse warrantless police searches.

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GenomeWeb Daily News

The DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act of 2000 initially authorized DNA collection only from persons convicted of certain “qualifying” federal, military, and District of Columbia offenses. This authority was later expanded by several subsequent act

News Link • Global Reported By Donna Brown
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FamilyWatchdog.us

Use this website to learn about sex offenders and violent criminals in your neighborhood. Imagine how the government could eventually have a database of information on everyone open to public viewing like this site.

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AP

On the agenda: A student who got into a shouting match with a faculty member. Another who harassed a female classmate. Someone found sleeping in a car. And a student who posted a threat against a professor on Facebook.

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Raw Story

For weeks, the Homeland Security Department has been headed toward a showdown with some states over a law called Real ID, which would require new security measures for state-issued driver's licenses. Yet a late Good Friday letter from a top DHS o

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Instutite for Health Freedom

An honest source for information about policies that affect you freedom to choose your health care treatments and providers and to maintain your health privacy -- including genetic privacy.

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Declan McCullagh

If you travel across national borders, it's time to customs-proof your laptop. Customs officials have been searching laptops at the border, where travelers enjoy little privacy and have no legal grounds to object. Laptops can be seized without re

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AP

The House narrowly approved legislation that extends the government's ability to spy on Americans, but doesn't include retroactive immunity for telecom companies. [Now we get to see the Dems betray us in the House-Senate conference.]

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Arizona CHANGE

In a forum assembled by the ACLU and featuring Katherine Albrecht, many learned for the first time the threat represented by RFID and REAL ID legislation.

News Link • Global Reported By Mike Shipley
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AP

House Democratic leaders agreed to a rare closed-door session - the first in 25 years - to debate surveillance legislation. Republicans requested privacy for what they termed "an honest debate" on the new Democratic eavesdropping bill that

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NY Times

Senior officials of the FBI repeatedly approved the use of “blanket” records demands to justify the improper collection of thousands of phone records. They used blanket records demands at least 11 times in 2006 alone as a quick way to clean up mistak

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AP

The FBI acknowledged it improperly accessed Americans' telephone records, credit reports and Internet traffic in 2006, the fourth straight year of privacy abuses resulting from investigations "aimed at tracking terrorists and spies."

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AP

The House Intelligence Committee chairman Silvestre Reyes (D-TX), expects a compromise soon on renewal of an eavesdropping law that provide legal protections for telecommunications companies as President Bush has insisted.

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Pandia Search Engine News via MediaPost

Spokeo is the latest social search info aggregator/people search service--a new offering that the Pandia team has dubbed "the Big Brother of social networking" because of how thorough the engine is. Once a user submits the username and pass

News Link • Global Reported By Justin Tyme
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Arizona CHANGE

“Privacy is a major element of freedom, without which people and nations cannot remain free.” – George Orwell, 1984

News Link • Global Reported By Mike Shipley
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AP

Google Inc. will begin storing the medical records of a few thousand people as it tests a long-awaited health service that's likely to raise more concerns about the volume of sensitive information entrusted to the Internet search leader.

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EFF

That's because of a physical property of the computer's memory chips. Data in these DRAM processors disappears when the computer is turned off, but it turns out this doesn't happen right away. It can take minutes before that data disappea

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We Are Change AZ

Arizona missed an opportunity on Tuesday to become the 1st State in the nation to refuse Real ID. While some states have passed “resolutions” of non-compliance, HB2677 would have enshrined the prohibition into AZ law, a line not crossed by the other

News Link • Global Reported By Mike Shipley
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