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  • Empty promises and tech's future

    In his first campaign for president, Bill Clinton assured Americans that he would boost government's involvement in science and technology.

  • Internet fathers get presidential medal

    Robert Kahn and Vint Cerf, who developed the TCP/IP protocols used to transmit traffic across the Internet, will this week receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civil award.

  • 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.

  • Senate limits Pentagon 'snooping' plan

    The US Senate on Thursday voted unanimously to slap restrictions on a controversial Pentagon data-mining program that critics say would amount to a domestic spying apparatus.

  • 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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