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New Conservative bill will make warrant-less searches of all things internet-related happen:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news ... ts-way.ars

Might wanna start encrypting things.
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Canadian courts back user's right to remain anonymous on the internet:

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/09/02/ ... -Anonymity
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Warrantless GPS devices to go before the Supreme Court:

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/1 ... -two/all/1
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Interesting turn of events in the NSA "dragnet" case the EFF is pushing:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news ... e-case.ars

Government? Potentially liable because of the legislation they put forward.
Corporations? Not potentially liable because of the legislation put forward by the government.
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How to opt out of Google tracking and to see what they know about you:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news ... eak-it.ars
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Support our surveillance bill or you like child pr0n:

http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/02/14 ... legislator

At least he didn't use hyperbole ;)
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Carry a GSM cellphone?

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/20 ... n-ever.ars

Easily track-able.
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Do not track bill coming out of the US:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news ... eement.ars

Likely to be as effective as the do not call one ;)
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US government not allowed to ask you to decrypt your harddrive unless they know what's on it:

http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/02/24/1 ... decryption
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Private wifi as people avoid government spying:

http://arstechnica.com/business/the-net ... t-back.ars
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FBI turns off 3000 GPS devices it installed without a warrant:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news ... ruling.ars
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FreedomBox:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreedomBox

Home users server software designed to protect your privacy.

What will Freedom Boxes do?

A plug server or other digital appliance in your home running the Freedom Box software can provide many services to you and your friends, automatically and securely. The following is a short list of the services we think are important:

Safe social networking, in which, without losing touch with any of your friends, you replace Facebook, Flickr, Twitter and other centralized services with privacy-respecting federated services;

Secure backup: Your data automatically stored in encrypted format on the Freedom Boxes of your friends or associates, thus protecting your personal data against seizure or loss;

Network neutrality protection: If your ISP starts limiting or interfering with your access to services in the Net, your Freedom Box can communicate with your friends to detect and route traffic around the limitations. Network censorship is automatically routed around, for your friends in societies with oppressive national firewalls, or for you;

Safe anonymous publication: Friends or associates outside zones of network censorship can automatically forward information from people within them, enabling safe, anonymous publication;

Home network security, with real protection against intrusion and the security threats aimed at Microsoft Windows or other risky computers your network;

Encrypted email, with seamless encryption and decryption;

Private voice communications: Freedom Box users can make voice-over-Internet phone calls to one another or to any phone. Calls between Freedom Box users will be encrypted securely;

Freedom Boxes can do anything that computers running the Debian GNU/Linux free operating system can do, which means they have full access to thousands of applications packages. Freedom Boxes are Debian server systems specially configured to provide users with privacy-protection and safe communications services. Freedom Boxes will become more capable with time, because they can upgrade themselves safely and securely using well-tested and stable automatic upgrade mechanisms already deployed in hundreds of thousands of Debian and Debian-descended installations around the world.
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Girls Around Me:

http://www.cultofmac.com/157641/this-cr ... =spread-us

The app that helps you hit on women.
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US demands British flight passenger info if they go to..........Canada:

http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/new ... 84912.html
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Bill C-30 coming back and it's even worse:

http://boingboing.net/2012/04/04/canada ... ing-b.html
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