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US politicians back Act to save internet radio

Allows negotiations until 2009

29 Sep 15:44

MoD man 'faces Official Secrets trial' for leaving files on train

Charge docs somewhere between CPS and Met police

29 Sep 15:40

EU bids to dominate future nebulous buzzword

'We don't know what Web 3.0 is, but we must have it'

29 Sep 14:14

UK spooks poke Facebook for new spies

The name's Bond, find me on Bebo

29 Sep 12:40

Tories promise to kill off kids database

ContactPoint looks even deader

29 Sep 11:08

FCO owns up to energy waste

Cites 'national security' as reason to leave 10,000 computers on overnight

29 Sep 09:17

Byron Review's internet enforcer goes into action

Promises child net protection strategy within a year

29 Sep 08:47

'I can see dinosaurs from my back porch'

Palin-tology and the threat to science teaching

26 Sep 12:29

Kentucky commandeers world's most popular gambling sites

Weep no more, my puritan ladies

26 Sep 01:57

ICO orders LibDems to stop bothering voters

Nick Clegg violates privacy rules

25 Sep 15:45

US Army unit deployed to home front

Nonlethal force for civil unrest

25 Sep 13:34

Airline industry refuses to be ID card guinea pig

Unions and management unite against gov biometrics

25 Sep 11:47

UK.gov 'to drop' überdatabase from snoop Bill

Exclusive Central snoop silo carries on regardless, sources say

25 Sep 11:30

Royal Navy won't fight pirates 'in case they claim asylum'

Comment 'Tis Execution Dock a council flat for ye, matey

25 Sep 07:02

US Senate rubberstamps R&D tax credit

'Investment in the future'

24 Sep 21:34

MEPs demand privacy safeguards on cross-border policing

Slate ministers' 'lowest common denominator deal'

24 Sep 05:02

EFF reveals vastly expanded search policy at US borders

Probable cause a thing of the past

23 Sep 18:47

Labour minister says 14 year olds should get ID cards

Deluges fringe meeting with Kool-Aid

23 Sep 14:11

PM Brown dusts off one interweb per child plan (again)

Stop me if you think you've heard this one before

23 Sep 10:09

Privacy chief OKs sharing criminal records if privacy tightened

Data protection measures needed

23 Sep 09:10

Senate bill sics DoJ on copyright infringers

Comcast nemesis calls for outrage

22 Sep 21:45

US pilots will go to VR drone ops straight from training

The years to come seemed waste of breath

22 Sep 16:15

Has the war on terror scored a virtual victory?

Comment Amateur spooks put willies up Al-Qaeda

22 Sep 15:17

UK.gov IDs identity vendors

CSC, Fujitsu and IBM on passport shortlist

22 Sep 10:06

ePassport tests put biometrics through their paces

Vendors sweat ahead of June dabs and iris scan deadline

19 Sep 10:57

EFF sues Dubya over warrantless surveillance

Inside AT&T's 'secret room'

18 Sep 21:48

Google to DoJ: The clock is ticking

Will push Goo-Hoo! deal, regulators be damned

18 Sep 19:21

New Yorkers to pay for RFID in driving licences

Only $30 to get tagged

18 Sep 13:28

Norway sends entire citizenry's ID info to media

Tax office admits to massive data breach

18 Sep 12:25

French bid for Brit nuclear sector back on

Pension funds' gripes sweetened

18 Sep 09:37

Memo to US Secret Service: Net proxy may pinpoint Palin email hackers

Updated Not quite Anonymous

18 Sep 01:22

Watchdog: US Computer Emergency Readiness Team isn't ready

Nation not secure

17 Sep 23:26

Bill seeks guidelines for US laptop searches

Some rules for border agents, please

17 Sep 21:45

Top adviser claims John McCain invented the BlackBerry

Even though he can't send email

16 Sep 18:24

DfT rounds up Road-Pricing 2.0 contractors

Car-tagging pork barrel opened for early nibbles

16 Sep 10:24

US runs warzone man-tracking 'Manhattan Project'

Mystery snoop-tech used in wave of assassinations

15 Sep 14:20

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