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Clandestine Operations at Google
FCC to Investigate D-Block Auction
Satellite Spotters Make Government Uneasy
UK Reconsiders 1986 Decision To Ban Astronauts
UK Police Want DNA of 'Potential Offenders'
Cities Tampering With Traffic Lights To Generate Revenue
Copyright Expert Uninvited From Canada Policy Forum
Dutch ODF Plan Could Sideline Microsoft
EU Fines Microsoft $1.3 Billion
If IP Is Property, Where Is the Property Tax?
Government-Sponsored Cyberattacks on the Rise
Internet Censorship's First Death Sentence?
National Archives Cuts Back On Web Site Archiving
Norway Mandates Government Use of ODF and PDF
Senator Proposes to Monitor All P2P Traffic for Illegal Files
Syrian Blogger Sentenced to Three Years in Jail
111 Years Ago, Indiana Almost Legislated Pi
Daylight Saving Time Wastes Energy
End of the Internet's Tax-Free Ride?
FBI Burying Doc Showing US Officials Stole Nuclear Secrets?
Japan To Adopt Open Software Standards
National ID Cards Mandated in the US, If You're Under 50
UN Says Tasers Are a Form of Torture
AU Government Demands Universal Wiretapping
China Blocks YouTube Over Tibet Videos
EU Commissioner Proposes 95 year Copyright
On-Call-IT Assists In Government Data Destruction
Russia to Build New Spacecraft by 2020
State Agency to Destroy Unauthorized USB Drives
State Lawmaker Wants To Ban Anonymous Posting Online
White House Email Follies
"Judicial Scandal" In Pirate Bay Case
"Secure Elections Act" Coming Up For Vote
A Law to Spy Back on Government Surveillance Cameras?
Author Faces Canadian Tribunal For Hate Speech
Canada Blocks Sale of Space Tech Company To US
Canada's New DMCA Considered Worst Copyright Law
China Anti-Corruption Web Site Crashes On First Day
Classified Cyber-Security Directive Puts NSA In Charge
Competitors Ally With Comcast In FCC P2P Filings
DHS Official Suggests REAL ID Mission Creep
Democrats Propose Commission To Investigate Spying
FBI Adds Two Digital Forensic Labs
FBI Lied To Support Need For PATRIOT Act Expansion
FBI Wants Authority To Filter Net Backbone
ISP Filters & Copyright Extension Defeated In EU
ISPs Blow Off Stanford Net Neutrality Hearing
In Australia, Bosses May Get Power To Snoop On Emails
Italian Parliament To Mistakenly Legalize MP3 P2P
Lawmakers Debate Patent Immunity For Banks
Leaked Government Doc Reveals UK ID "Coercion" Plans
Legalize File Sharing, Say Swedish MPs
MD Bill Would Criminalize Theft of Wireless Access
New York to Implement an 'Amazon Tax'
Patriot Act Haunts Google Service
Report Suggests That Nanny State Might Actually Not Be For the Best
Russia To Require Registration For Wi-Fi Use
Should Microsoft Be Excluded From EU Government Sales?
UK Agency Files OOXML Complaint, EU Demurs
UK ISPs Could Face Government Broadband TV Tax
What Will Come of the FCC Comcast Hearing
Americans Don't Care About Domestic Spying ?
Army Buys Macs to Beef Up Security
Best Super Tuesday Candidate for Technology?
British "X-files" Released to Public
Classified Wiki For U.S. Intelligence Community
Congress Creates Copyright Cops
Congress Turns Up The Heat on FCC's Chairman
Creative Capitalism Gets Microsoft $528M Tax Break
DOE Awards 265 Million Processor-Hours To Science Projects
DOJ Doesn't Like the Idea of A Copyright Czar
FAA Mandates Major Aircraft "Black Box" Upgrade
FBI Looks Into Chinese Role in Darfur Site Hack
Feds Block EFF Look at Google/DoJ Contacts
German Govt. Skype Interception Trojans Revealed
Germany Implements Sweeping Data Retention Policies
Human Rights and a Code of Conduct for China's Web
Lessig Campaign and the Change Congress Movement
Malaysian Candidates Required to Have Blogs
Master Diebold Key Copied From Web Site
NYC Wants to Ban Geiger Counters
NYT Editorial Slams ISPs Over Online Freedom
Net Neutrality Blasted by MPAA Bosses
Oklahoma Leaks 10,000 Social Security Numbers
Russian Software Piracy Crackdown Restricts Free Speech
Sequoia Vote Machine Can't Do Simple Arithmetic?
Swiss DMCA Quietly Adopted
Taxes, Second Life and Warcraft
The $10 Billion Poker Game Begins
The Device NASA Is Leaving Behind
The Rush To Patent the Atomic Bomb
U.S. Confiscating Data at the Border
White House Decides P2P Isn't All Bad?
Windows 7 Eyed For Antitrust Violations
FBI Hid Patriot Act Abuses
Government Mistakenly Declares Deaths of Citizens
Australian Police Chief Seeks Terror Reporting Ban
"Hollywood" Howard Berman To Leave Internet Subcommittee
$500,000 Prize for Faster Airport Security Checks
2008 International Broadband Rankings
AT&T Says Spying Is Too Secret For Courts
Administration Claimed Immunity To 4th Amendment
Another Indian State Moving To FOSS
Bill Gates's Wish Is Homeland Security's Command
Billion Dollar Handout To Upgrade TVs
British Village Requests Removal From GPS Maps
California Edges Toward Joining Real ID Revolt
California Sues E-Voting Vendor ES&S
Can Open Source Give Comfort To the Enemy?
Canada May Lose Copyright Fair-Use Rights
Canadian Government Rejects Net Neutrality Rules
Canadian Regulator CRTC Saves Independent ISPs
Census Bureau To Scrap Handhelds — Cost $3 Billion
Changing a School's Tech Disposal Policy?
China Continues to Shut Down Video Sites
Cisco Offices Raided, Execs Arrested In Brazil
College Funding Bill Passes House, P2P Provision Intact
Companies To Be Liable For Deals With Online Criminals
Deadline For Saying "No" To National ID
DoubleClick Goes MIA At FTC Chief's Old Law Firm
EU Plans to Require Biometrics for Visitors
EU's Anti-Trust Investigation of OOXML Continues
FAA May Ditch Vista For Linux
FBI File of Lie Detector's Creator
FBI Says Military Had Counterfeit Cisco Routers
FCC Delays Vote On Cable TV Regulation
FCC Goes Halfway On Opening 700 MHz Spectrum
FCC Requires Backup Power For 210K Cell Towers
FCC Seeks Comment In Comcast P2P Investigation
FTC Approves Google-DoubleClick Deal
French Parliament Chooses Ubuntu
Government Efficiency and Network Theory
How Will Governments Keep Up With Technology?
ISPs Say P4P Negates Need for Net Neutrality Regs
Lawmakers Delay Telco Immunity Vote
Lessig For Congress?
Lessig On Corruption and Reform
Library of Congress's $3M Deal With Microsoft
Making Sense of Census Data With Google Earth
Maryland To Tax Custom Programming and Computer Services
More Details Emerge On Domestic Spying Programs
Municipal WiFi Moves Ahead In Houston
NASA Launches New Science Website
NASA's New Mission to the Moon
New Jersey E-Voting Problems Worse Than Originally Suspected
New York Decision On ODF Vs. OOXML Approaching
Norway Moves Towards Mandatory Use of ODF and PDF
Official DTV Converter Box Coupons for Americans
P2P Fans Pound Comcast In FCC Comments
Paraguay Telco Hijacks DNS Before Elections
Pentagon Reveals News Correction Unit
Politicians and the Cyber-Bully Pulpit
Privacy Commissioner Criticizes Canadian DMCA
Radio May Have To Pay To Play
Russia Honors the Spy Who Stole the A-Bomb
Sequoia Threatens Over Voting Machine Evaluation
Source Control For Bills In Congress?
The Inside Story on Norway's Yes to OOXML
U.S. K-12 Schools Must Comply With e-Discovery Rule
UK to Ban Possession of Certain 'Violent' Pornography
US "Fusion Centers" For Intelligence Sharing
US Broadband Policy Called "Magical Thinking"
US Group Calls Canada a Top Copyright Violator
US Internet Control To Be Topic #1 In Rio
US Senate Votes Immunity For Telecoms
US To Employ Overhead Spying Domestically
Utah Wants To Give ISPs That Filter a "G-Rating"
WV Assessor Sues to Keep Tax Maps Off the Internet
Wisconsin Mulls an Earmarked Video Game Tax
Yahoo Settles With Imprisoned Chinese Journalists
Australian Government Considers Copying UK Copyright Law Ideas
Details of Cyber Storm War Games Released
House of Representatives To Discuss Wiretapping In Closed Session
White House Tape Recycling Possibly Erased Emails
'War on Terror' Allies Form Information Consortium
Aerial Drones To Help Cops In Miami
Anatomy of the VA's IT Meltdown
Aqua Teen Art 'Terrorist' Describes His Ordeal
Bush Cyber Initiative Aims To Monitor, Restrict Access To Federal Network
Canadian DMCA Won't Include Consumer Rights
China to Use Silver Iodide & Dry Ice to Control the Weather
China's Battle to Police the Web
Computers May Thwart 2010 Census
Congressman Hollywood Wants To Make DMCA Tougher
Convincing the Military to Embrace Open Source
Delays to Canadian DMCA Could Doom Act
Diffing Guantanamo Bay SOP Manuals
Dutch Government Adopts Open Source Software Initiative
EU Regulator Raids Intel Offices
FBI Data Mining For More Than Just Terrorists
FCC Considers Taking Action Against Comcast
FCC May Move to Cap Cable Company Size
FCC, FAA Still Don't Want Cell Phones on Planes
FTC Defends Ethernet From Patent Troll
Feds Have Access To Cellphone Tracking On Request
Google Attempts to Allay US Privacy Fears
How ExxonMobil Funded Global Warming Skeptics
How PALS Help Secure Nuclear Weapons
IBM Suspended From US Federal Contracts
ICANN Writes US Government Requesting Independence

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