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May 7, 2004

Australian Teleportation Breaktrhough

The Age (Australia): Superfast computers, unbreakable codes and completely secure communications are a step closer, with Australian scientists demonstrating how to teleport data to multiple receivers. This follows the major breakthrough two years ago when members of the Australian National...

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May 3, 2004

RFID and Wi-Fi Watch The Kids

Legoland, the Danish equivalent of Disneyland, is the test bed of a new Wi-Fi version of Radio Frequency ID (RFID) tags, the technology making converts everywhere from the halls of the U.S. Pentagon to the aisles of retail giant...

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April 27, 2004

Heightened Surveillance in Wealthy Florida Town

NewsObserver.com: Manalapan, Florida -- One of the nation's wealthiest towns will soon have cameras and computers running background checks on every car and driver that passes through. Police Chief Clay Walker said cameras will take infrared photos recording a car's...

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April 16, 2004

FBI Buried by Security Demands

The Washington Times: The number of secret surveillance warrants sought by the FBI has increased 85 percent in the past three years, a pace that has outstripped the Justice Department's ability to process them quickly. Even after warrants are approved,...

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April 12, 2004

Gunshot Detection Technology in Chicago

Chicago Sun Times: Big Brother isn't just watching the bad guys in Chicago. By late summer, he'll be listening as well -- for the sound of gunshots. Gunshot detection technology -- capable of "triangulating within 20 feet" of the location...

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April 6, 2004

Privacy and Google's New E-Mail Service

Yahoo! News: Google Inc. hails its new e-mail service as a breakthrough in online communication, but consumer watchdogs are attacking it as a creepy invasion of privacy that threatens to set a troubling precedent. Although Google's free "Gmail" service isn't...

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April 3, 2004

Google E-Mail Causes Privacy Concerns

San Jose Marcury News: Internet giant Google caught some flak this week for its new e-mail service, Gmail, which will serve up text ads based on the content of a user's e-mail messages. The concern is that Google will somehow...

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Stricter Rules on Foreign Visitors

San Jose Mercury News: The Department of Homeland Security announced Friday that it planned to require travelers from 27 industrialized nations -- including longtime allies like Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Japan and Australia -- to be photographed and electronically fingerprinted...

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March 6, 2004

Microsoft SenseCam

San Jose Mercury News: It begins with the SenseCam, a device Microsoft researcher Lyndsay Williams calls "a black box recorder for the human body.'' SenseCam was one of dozens of new technologies on display this week at Microsoft's TechFest, an...

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February 22, 2004

Privacy and The Information Explosion

San Jose Mercury News: Feel overwhelmed by the deluge of information flooding the world today? No wonder. Researchers say that the amount of new words, sounds, pictures and numbers produced and stored on paper, film or computer disks has almost...

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February 18, 2004

Scott Peterson Case: Satellite Tracking Data Admitted

Mercury News: A judge ruled that evidence police gathered using electronic devices to track Scott Peterson after his pregnant wife disappeared can be used in his murder trial, despite defense objections that the technology is unreliable. Because global positioning system...

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January 19, 2004

How Your Mobile Could Be Spying on You

Mirror.co.uk (UK): It's the kind of thing that only happens in films... The hero, desperately searching for a terrorist or kidnap victim, taps their name into a computer. A map comes up on the screen, pinpointing the precise location of...

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January 12, 2004

Feds seek wiretap access via VoIP

MSN Tech & Gadgets: The FBI and the Justice Department have renewed their efforts to wiretap voice conversations carried across the Internet. The agencies have asked the Federal Communications Commission to order companies offering voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service...

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January 11, 2004

Big Brother Britain, 2004

The Independent (UK): More than four million surveillance cameras monitor our every move, making Britain the most-watched nation in the world, research has revealed. The number of closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras has quadrupled in the past three years, and...

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January 6, 2004

U.S. Begins Screening Program for Monitoring Foreign Visitors

New York Times: United States immigration officers began fingerprinting and photographing tens of thousands of foreign visitors required to have visas on Monday, in what federal authorities described as a sophisticated new security measure to monitor who enters the country...

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AOL to Add Spyware Detection to Service

New York Times: America Online will give its customers built-in software to detect and remove "spyware," hidden tools that can monitor Web surfers' online habits for marketing purposes, company executives said yesterday. The AOL move, which is to be announced...

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January 4, 2004

115 U.S. Airports & 14 Seaports To Track Foreign Visitors

FoxReno.com: San Francisco and Oakland international airports will be among 115 airports and 14 seaports implementing a new system that is designed to confirm the identity of arriving foreign visitors, and to better track their whereabouts while they are in...

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December 23, 2003

China Moves to Protect Property

The New York Times HENZHEN, China, Dec. 22; China's national legislature moved to amend the Constitution on Monday to protect private property rights, the first time the Communist Party has formally protected private wealth since taking power 55 years ago....

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November 11, 2003

British Government Wants Compulsory ID Cards

My Way News: The British government said Tuesday it wants to introduce compulsory identity cards to protect against illegal immigration, welfare fraud and terrorism -- though implementation is years away. Home Secretary David Blunkett said the government would introduce the...

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September 12, 2003

House Approves Identity Theft Protections

Inman News: By a vote of 392-30, the House of Representatives today approved landmark legislation to give consumers new tools to fight the rapidly growing crime of identity theft. ... "Consumers rely on affordable access to credit," House Financial Services...

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August 19, 2003

China Readies Super ID Card, a Worry to Some

New York Times — For almost two decades, Chinese citizens have been defined, judged and, in some cases, constrained by their all-purpose national identification card, a laminated document the size of a driver's license. But starting next year, they will...

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August 13, 2003

Immigrants awaiting hearings monitored with ankle bracelets

The Washington Times: Illegal immigrants awaiting deportation hearings are being monitored by electronic ankle bracelets under a federal pilot program that is expected to relieve prison overcrowding nationwide and save taxpayers millions of dollars....

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