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New York Times

Under a secret Bush administration program initiated weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks, counterterrorism officials have gained access to financial records from a vast international database and examined banking transactions involving thousands

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Washington Post

The U.S. government gained sweeping access to international banking records as part of a secret program to choke off financial support for terrorism, officials confirmed Thursday. Treasury Department officials said they used broad subpoenas to col

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Salon

In a pivotal network operations center in metropolitan St. Louis, AT&T has maintained a secret, highly secured room since 2002 where government work is being conducted, according to two former AT&T workers once employed at the center. In interview

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Patriot Daily

(Another reason not to vote) The Baltimore Sun reported today that Bush rejected President Clinton's effective, legal surveillance program that did not invade privacy to adopt the current NSA spying program, which is ineffective, lillegal and in

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AP

Acting at the mayor's request, Gov. Kathleen Blanco said Monday she would send National Guard troops and state police to patrol the streets of New Orleans after a bloody weekend in which six people were killed. "The situation is urgent,**

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LiveScience.com

Researchers have built a prototype device that disables digital cameras. Future versions might thwart unwanted photo-taking at a specific location and even prevent clandestine videos from being made. The technology might one day prevent espionage

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LoveScience.com

SpeedAlert, links real-time location data and speed obtained with the help of the Global Positioning System (GPS) to a database of posted speed limits stored in a driver's PDA or programmable mobile phone.

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AP

The federal government sued the New Jersey attorney general and other state officials Wednesday to stop them from seeking information about telephone companies cooperation with the NSA. The unusual filing the US District Court in Trenton NJ

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James Bovard - The American Conservative

The nation’s biggest telephone companies have apparently turned over masses of personal records to the feds, allowing Uncle Sam to build up a database of the phone numbers of incoming and outgoing calls of Americans.

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New York Times

The deepest fear among Arab-Americans, include the Patriot Act, interviews of thousands of Arab-Americans by feds, and a Special Registration, in which 80,000 immigrant men were fingerprinted, photographed and questioned by authorities.

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New Scientist

New Scientist has discovered that Pentagon's National Security Agency, which specialises in eavesdropping and code-breaking, is funding research into the mass harvesting of the information that people post about themselves on social networks. And

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Washington Post

Companies that provide Web-based telecommunications services must allow wiretapping by law enforcement officials, a federal appeals court ruled. The ruling upholds a Federal Communications Commission decision that companies such as Vonage Holdings Co

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PC World

The government wants Internet firms to store records about you so that it can have them if necessary for an investigation. Should you worry?

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BBC News (I have to go to England to read this?!)

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drone aircraft, are about to be launched for the first time by the police in Los Angeles. UAVs have long been used by the military in war zones such as Iraq or Afghanistan. But the technology has bee

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Independent

Fleets of unmanned "drone" aircraft fitted with powerful cameras are to be used to patrol Europe's borders in a dramatic move to combat people-smuggling, illegal immigration, and terrorism. The Independent on Sunday can today reveal th

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Associated Press

Wen Ho Lee, the former nuclear weapons scientist once suspected of being a spy, settled his privacy lawsuit and will receive $1.6 million from the government and five news organizations in a case that turned into a fight over reporters' confident

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Boulder City News

Boulder City, Nevada recently began setting up illegal suspicionless car seat checkpoints around the city. Luckily, not everyone in Boulder City is ready to roll over to unconstitutional demands on their person and property however...

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CNET

[And failing that, no doubt it will then be to save the children.] Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has said that requiring Internet service providers to save records of their customers' online activities is necessary in the fight against terror

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LiveScience.com

Scott Silverman, Chairman of the Board of VeriChip Corporation, has proposed implanting the company's RFID tracking tags in immigrant and guest workers. "We have talked to many people in Washington about using it...."

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