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U.S. Senators Fire Up the Spectre of Online Sales Tax Yet Again

Outside of the insanely easy convenience of doing your shopping online, the next best thing has to be the fact that in the majority of instances you pay no sales tax. Well, leave it to the federal...

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The Day of Blackouts: Thousands of Sites Protest SOPA by Going Dark (poll)

If you read Noah Kravitz’s illuminating post, “This is SOPA. You Might Want to Protest It,” turned on the news or hit your favorite website to find it offline or not updated, then you’ve got an...

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If You Have Comcast Email, You Could Be A Terrorist

Hey, are you “overly concerned about privacy” online or use anonymizers and Web portals? Do you like to check your ISP-provided email account on the road? How about talking to your cohorts in PC games?...

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Another Hit For RIM: Government Agency Says Yes to iPhone, Android

Research In Motion has long prided itself on the security of its mobile platform and smartphones, but now the U.S. General Services Administration is allowing 12,635 government workers to choose an...

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Doctors in U.K. Will Soon “Prescribe Health Apps” to Their Patients

Doctors in the U.K. will soon begin prescribing their patients with smartphone applications along with their drugs that will allow them to monitor and manage their health conditions. The Department of...

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All Your .COM Domains Are Belong to U.S., Government Says

Do you own a .com domain? If so, the U.S. government can seize it at any time. The same applies to .net, org. .biz, and other top-level domains (TLDs), and it doesn’t matter where you live. You could...

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CISPA Passes the House. What is CISPA, Anyway?

The controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act otherwise known as CISPA (HR 3523) passed through the House of Representatives Thursday by a vote of 248 to 168. The bill now moves on to...

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Should We Barcode Everyone At Birth?

Given the way technology is going, are we headed toward a day when every living person gets tagged with barcodes at birth? If so, says SciFi author Elizabeth Moon, that would be a grand thing. In...

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Facebook Among Terrorists’ Favorite Tools, Says UN

We use Facebook for all sorts of things, both brilliant and inane. And while it may be our favorite news resource, social gathering place or general time waster, it’s also something else, something...

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U.S. Federal Agency Snags iPhone, Dumps BlackBerry

As if we needed yet another sign of RIM’s slipping status in the smartphone market — the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) has declared that it is leaving the BlackBerry platform for...

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Another Government Agency Gives Up on BlackBerry, Chooses iPhone 5 Instead

Several government agencies have started to gravitate away from RIM’s BlackBerry smartphone for other alternatives, and the latest is the National Transportation Safety Board. According to AllThingsD,...

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India Rolls Out Surveillance System To Monitor Citizens’ Calls, E-mails and...

Tech users may be more blasé than ever about privacy matters and tracking features, but even the most indifferent might feel ill at ease if they lived in India. The country, which is responsible for...

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After 3D Printable Gun Bans, The Pirate Bay Steps In to Distribute Plans

Generally speaking, techsters don’t really like too many limitations. After all, there’s a reason why open-source, or freely available software code, has so many fans. Google and other companies have...

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Senate Debates Creating National “Biometric” Database On All Adults In the U.S.

The Senate began debating a new immigration reform measure recently, and it has privacy hounds up in arms. The legislation involves creating a national database of biometric information on every adult...

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White House Defends NSA, Says Collecting Verizon Call Data Is Matter of...

Earlier The Guardian broke the startling news that the National Security Administration has been secretly collecting phone records for every call on the Verizon network. With tens of millions of...

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NSA Has Access to Major Internet Companies’ Servers, Thanks to Covert PRISM...

The public is already reeling from the revelation that the National Security Agency, sanctioned by the White House, is covertly grabbing millions of Verizon customers’ call data. But if that’s not...

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NSA Uses Radio Waves to Spy on Offline PCs

You can run but you can’t hide Surely by disconnecting your PC from the Internet and bashing your cable modem with a hammer you’ll be safe from the prying eyes of the National Security Agency (NSA),...

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The U.K. gives driverless cars the green light

The U.K. government has given its approval to driverless cars following a six-month review of the country’s suitability for self-driving technology. But before driverless cars hit the roads, Brits...

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Apple no longer approved for Chinese government purchases

Apple, along with a number of other leading technology companies, has been removed from the list of brands approved for Chinese government purchases. It’s thought the move is a response to reports of...

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Apple engineers could quit if forced to create iPhone backdoor, report claims

Apple engineers would rather quit their jobs than be forced to create an iPhone backdoor, according to a new report. Some are already discussing how they will respond should the FBI win its ongoing...

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