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  • US Senate moves to legalise 'illegal NSA spying'

    Google, Yahoo, MSN along with other search and e-mail companies may no longer be acting illegally if they spy on their customers and then share that information with the National Security Agency.

  • Google's privacy concerns unfounded: US government

    The US Justice Department has denied requesting anything from Google that could threaten the privacy of the search-engine's users, as the company recently contended.

  • Bush pushes for cybercrime treaty

    President George W. Bush has asked the U.S. Senate to ratify the first international cybercrime treaty.

  • FBI plans spammer smackdown

    It's been nearly six months since President Bush signed the first federal spam law with criminal sanctions--and not one bulk e-mailer has been criminally charged under it so far.

  • US Feds step up push to wiretap VoIP calls

    The Bush administration plans to ask the Federal Communications Commission to order Net telephony providers to comply with a law that would permit police to wiretap conversations carried over the Internet.

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  • Uncloaking the US Patriot Act

    More information is dribbling out about the exercise of extraordinary powers granted to federal police since Sept 11. We unmask the Patriot Act.

  • US Feds step up push to wiretap VoIP calls

    The Bush administration plans to ask the Federal Communications Commission to order Net telephony providers to comply with a law that would permit police to wiretap conversations carried over the Internet.

  • Joe Biden's tech voting record

    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.

  • Richard Clarke: Straight talking on terror

    Counter-terrorism adviser to four US presidents Richard Clarke discusses whether cyberterrorism is a misnomer or a real threat.

  • Protecting our borders: IT stands guard

    Can a national ID card protect Australians against terrorist attacks? And can citizens' details be protected by Public Key Infrastructure? We look at the types of hardware and software employed to combat terrorism, and how ports and other critical infrastructure are protected.

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