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German President Refuses To Sign Censorship Law
New York State Budget Relies On Entertainment Tax
Concerns About ACTA In EU, Canada
China Strangles Tor Ahead of National Day
FCC Mulling More Control For Electronic Media
Real-LIfe Distributed-Snooping Web Game To Launch In Britain
Blogger Loses Unemployment Check Because of Ads
Obama Proposes Digital Health Records
Obama Edicts Boost FOIA and .gov Websites
Commerce Department Pushing For New "Copyright Czar"
Fewer Than 1% Arrested From TSA's "Behavior Detection"
Founder of Tibet's "Butter-Lamp" Site Sentenced To 15 Years In Prison
Brazilian Breaks Secrecy of Brazil's E-Voting Machines With Van Eck Phreaking
CIA Invests In Firm That Datamines Social Networks
FCC Begins Crafting Net Neutrality Regulations
Mandatory H1N1 Vaccine For NY Health Workers Suspended
New UK Wireless Network Tax May Hamper Internet Rollout
New Virginia IT Systems Lack Network Backup
Secret ACTA Treaty May Sport "Internet Enforcement" Procedures After All
Senate To Air Findings In Web "Mystery Charge" Probe
$30B IT Stimulus Will Create Almost 1 Million Jobs
Obama Wants Broadband, Computers Part of Stimulus
Ted "A Series of Tubes" Stevens Found Guilty
Obama Stimulus Pours Millions Into Cyber Security
Obama Taps a 5th Lawyer From the RIAA
EFF Sues To Overturn Telecom Immunity
ACLU Creates Map of US "Constitution-Free Zone"
Online Carpooling Service Fined In Canada
Obama Looking At Open Source?
National Archives Cuts Back On Web Site Archiving
Senator Diane Feinstein Trying to Kill Net Neutrality
Washington State Wants DNA From All Arrestees
NZ File-Sharers, Remixers Guilty Upon Accusation
Accountability of the Scientific Stimulus Funding
Obama & McCain Conflicting On Net Neutrality
Barack Obama Sworn In As 44th President of the US
Syrian Blogger Sentenced to Three Years in Jail
RIAA and BSA's Lawyers Taking Top Justice Posts
UK Government Boosts Open Source Adoption
FCC to Investigate D-Block Auction
Satellite Spotters Make Government Uneasy
Watching Tonight's Presidential Debate Online
Obama Picks Net Neutrality Backer As FCC Chief
The Presidential Portrait Goes Digital
Clandestine Operations at Google
Alan Turing Apology Campaign Grows
Best Super Tuesday Candidate for Technology?
British "X-files" Released to Public
CIA Officers Are Warming To Intellipedia
Dodd, Feingold To Try and Filibuster Immunity Bill
EPA Reaches Goal On Data Center Study
FTC To Monitor Blogs For Paid Claims & Reviews
How Tech-Savvy Will the Next President Be?
Lessig Campaign and the Change Congress Movement
NASA Employee Suspended For Blogging At Work
Police Lose National High-Tech Crime Unit Website
Senators Against Net Neutrality
White House Briefed On "Potential For Life" On Mars
White House Joins Facebook, MySpace, Twitter
CAN-SPAM Act Turns 5 Today — What Went Wrong?
A Peek At DHS's Files On You
The Real Risks of Obama's BlackBerry
President Signs Law Creating Copyright Czar
After Columbine, Eric Holder Advocated Internet "Restrictions"
Obama Administration Defends Warrantless Wiretapping
FCC Approves Unlicensed Use of White-Space Spectrum
International Spam Ring Shut Down
National Debt Clock Overflowed, Extended By a Digit
EU Will Not Divulge Microsoft Contracts
With Olympics Over, China Re-Censors Internet
Wiretap Whistleblower, a Life in Limbo?
UK Police To Step Up Hacking of Home PCs
Thai Gov't Sets Up Site For Snitching On Royals' Critics
FCC Commissioner Lauds DRM, ISP Filtering
Court Rules That Palin Must Save Yahoo Emails
Tech Firms Oppose Union Organizing
London Police Seek To Install CCTV In Pubs
EU Council Refuses To Release ACTA Documents
New Bill To Rein In DHS Laptop Seizures
How We Used To Vote
Obama Picks RIAA's Favorite Lawyer For Top DoJ Post
Wikileaks Publishes $1B of Public Domain Research Reports
State Dept E-mail Crash After "Reply-All" Storm
Air Force To Re-Open Pursuit of Cyber Command
German Bundeswehr Recruiting Hackers
Interpol Pushing World Facial Recognition Database
Obama Launches Change.gov
Can Static Electricity Generate Votes?
F-Secure Calls For "Internetpol" To Fight Crimeware
Rick Boucher To Chair House Internet Committee
US House Adopts New Third-Party Web Site Rules
Finnish Court Dismisses E-Voting Result
Sun's McNealy Wants Obama to Push Open Source
Free Wireless Band Gets FCC OK
The Electronic Bastille
Time To Discuss Drug Prohibition?
Afghan Student Gets 20 Years For Blasphemy
Court Nixes National Security Letter Gag Provision
Trick Used To Pass French "Three Strikes"
Spectrum Fees May Preclude US Low-Cost Cellular
Paper Ballots Will Return In MD and VA
The End of Tax-Free Internet Shopping?
UK UFO Sightings Declassified, Still No Intergalactic Relations
UK Government Wants To Bypass Data Protection Act
FTC Pursues Rambus Appeal To Supreme Court
Senate Approves 4-Month Delay In Digital TV Switch
Congress Endorses Open Source For Military
NSA Is Building a New Datacenter In San Antonio
UK Government Wants To Kill Net Neutrality In EU
UK Government Says More Spying Needed
Why Is It So Difficult To Fire Bad Teachers?
More Websites Offending Thai Monarchy Blocked
CRTC Mulls Canadian Content On the Internet
Judge Suppresses Report On Voting Systems
English Court Allows Patents For "Complex" Software
Australia To Build Fiber-To-the-Premises Network
North Korea Missile Launch Fails
Italian Red Lights Rigged With Short Yellow Light
Julius Genachowski To Head FCC
UK Government Plans 10-Year Database of Citizens' Travel
Child Online Protection Act Appeal Rejected
Chu's Final Breakthrough Before Taking Office
New Report On NSA Released Today
EU Says MS Must Offer Other Browsers; Now What?
Diebold Election Audit Logs Defective
FTC Kills Dirty Online Check Processing Outfit
Industry Open-Sources Model For Infamous CDS
French Police Save Millions Switching To Ubuntu
FCC Seeks To Improve US Broadband Access
China To Photograph All Internet Cafe Customers
State of Colorado Calls Firefox Insecure, IE6 Safe
China Denies Role In US Grid Hacks
Governments Preparing To Bail Out DRAM Makers
Apparent Suicide In Anthrax Case
As of October, FBI To Allow Warrantless Investigations
Councils Recruit Unpaid Volunteers To Spy On Their Neighbors
FBI ISP Letters May Have Violated Free Speech
German Customs Agents Raid Another Trade Show
How Regulations Hamper Chemical Hobbyists
New Scientific Evidence Emerges In Anthrax Case
Obama Sides With Bush In Spy Case
Avi Rubin Has Some Optimistic Words About E-Voting
Japan Imposes "Fine On Fat"
State of Kentucky Seizes Control of 141 Domain Names
Bush Demands Amnesty for Spying Telecoms
Texas Senate Proposes a Budget With a No-Vista-Upgrades Rider
Copyright Expert Uninvited From Canada Policy Forum
2/3 of Americans Without Broadband Don't Want It
Obama Staffers Followed Palin's Email Lead On Inauguration Day
Organized Online, Students Storm Gov't. Buildings In Moldova
Details On Worldwide Surveillance and Filtering
Man Denied Right To Vote Because He Won't Use Computer
Ministry of Defense's "How To Stop Leaks" Document Is Leaked
Human Rights Court Calls UK DNA Database a 'Breach of Rights'
Paper Companies' Windfall of Unintended Consequences
Senate Votes To Empower Parents As Censors
US House Limits Constituent Emails
In MN, Massive Police Raids On Suspected Protestors
IRS Rolls Out Risky Tax Processing Systems
Data Center Raid About Unpaid Telco Fees
FBI Searches New Fed CIO Kundra's Former Offices
New TN Law Forces Universities To Patrol For Copyright Violations
China Blocks More Internet Services
Vast Electronic Spying Operation Discovered
House Bill Won't Criminalize Free Wi-Fi Operators
French "Three Strikes" Law Gets New Life
1,600 Names Suggested Daily For FBI's Watch List
China Bans Physical Punishment For Net Addicts
India Hanging Up On 25 Million Cell Phones
Nicaragua Creates Innovative Agricultural Information System With Open Source
Nigerian "Scam Police" Shut Down 800 Web Sites
Obama Kicks Off Massive Science Education Effort
Sequoia To Publish Source Code For Voting Machines
What Kind of Cloud Computing Project Costs $32M?
NSA Whistleblowers Reveal Extent of Eavesdropping
White House Exempts YouTube From Web Privacy Rules
New CyberSecurity Bill Raises Privacy Questions
Experts Tell Feds To Sign the DNS Root ASAP
FISA Bill Vote Today, With Telco Immunity
Senate Passes Telecom Immunity Bill
US Government Responds Harshly To ICANN gTLD Plans
Aussie Censorship "Live Trials" Won't Be Live
Senate Judiciary Committee Approves Copyright Cops
Report Says China Will Demand Source Code
Anti-Matter Created By Laser At Livermore
"Bridge To Microsoft" Gets Federal Stimulus Funds
FBI Is the Worst FOIA Performer
UK Plans To Monitor 20,000 Families' Homes Via CCTV
Recovery.gov To Get $18 Million Redesign
Aussie Regulator Comes Down On SMS Spam
Security Flaws In Aussie Net Filter Exposed
UK Cops Want "Breathalyzers" For PCs
UK Police Want DNA of 'Potential Offenders'
UN Says Tasers Are a Form of Torture
DMCA Exemption Time
New York Issues RFID-Encoded Drivers Licenses
Anti-Terrorist Data Mining Doesn't Work Very Well
Feds To Offer Cash For Your Clunker
Russia To Develop a National Operating System
All of Vietnam's Government Computers To Use Linux, By Fiat