The three Massachusetts Institute of Technology students who have been barred by a court order from discussing subway card vulnerabilities are now free to say what they want.
In a setback for privacy and civil liberties groups, the US Senate on Tuesday voted to protect telephone and Internet companies from lawsuits alleging illegal cooperation with US government spy agencies.
The fate of a Bush-backed national identification card is up in the air after the US senate rejected providing US$300 million in funding for the plan.
The US National Security Agency and President Bush's wiretapping program may or may not have violated the US Constitution -- we may never find out for sure because the case was thrown out of court last week on "narrow procedural grounds".
The US Real ID Act, which is designed to create an American national ID card, took a hit this week when opponents to the scheme won a victory in the Senate.
US vice presidential candidate Joe Biden has a mixed record on technology, spending most of his Senate career allied with the FBI and copyright holders. His anti-privacy legislation was actually responsible for the creation of PGP.
Many now turn to the collaborative, democratic wiki form for fast news and history from different perspectives. But there are issues with accuracy and an author's agenda can be questionable. We look at the benefits and downsides of wikis.
Last-minute attempt fails to derail the bill, which with President Bush's signature would require federalised IDs for all Americans.
More information is dribbling out about the exercise of extraordinary powers granted to federal police since Sept 11. We unmask the Patriot Act.
Before he starts work every day, Oscar Carranza places his hand in a biometric scanner that traces the contours of his palm and compares them to digital records in the airport's central database.
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