A recent vote in Congress endorsing standardised, electronically readable driver's licenses has raised fears about whether the proposal would usher in what amounts to a national ID card.
A contract between Google and the University of Michigan released publicly on Friday contains no provisions for protecting the privacy of people who will eventually be able to search the school's vast library collection over the Internet.
In the immediate aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001, the worry in Washington, D.C., was more about national security than about individual privacy.
A bill has been overwhelmingly approved in the US that would allow for life prison sentences for malicious computer hackers.
If the US Federal attorney general gets his way big brother will have still more power to snoop on the Net, listen in on private conversations and install secret gear.
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.
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