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  • House vote stymies TIA spy plan

    The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a spending bill that eliminates money for the Terrorism Information Awareness project, effectively putting an end to the controversial Pentagon antiterrorism plan, which sought to assemble computerised dossiers on Americans.

  • FBI targets Net phoning

    Internet telephone calls are fast becoming a national security threat that must be countered with new police wiretap rules, according to an FBI proposal presented quietly to regulators this month.

  • Government data-mining lives on

    Congress managed to pull the plug last year on the Pentagon's data-mining plan known as Total Information Awareness, but it turns out that the effects were only fleeting.

  • Freedom, technology and the Net

    Despite some recent blows to online privacy and free speech, computer scientists are gathering to defend freedom in technology by looking at both sides of the issues.

  • George Orwell, here we come

    What could a corrupt FBI, Secret Service or US Homeland Security police force do with advanced technology by the end of the decade?

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