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  • Australia slides into surveillance society

    According to a new international privacy report, governments around the world are increasingly invading the privacy of citizens with surveillance, identification systems and archiving of private data -- and Australia is no exception.

  • 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 stands up to US government porn probe

    US Federal prosecutors preparing to defend a controversial Internet pornography law in court have asked Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and America Online to hand over millions of search records -- a request that Google is adamantly denying.

  • Privacy advocates frown on Amazon snooping plan

    Post a review of a book or other product on Amazon.com, and the information may find its way into the company's file on you.

  • Fingerprinting P2P pirates

    While Sony, EMI, and Universal are busily engaging in legal action against universities in Australia, in the US MP3 filtering could open a new front in the online music wars.

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