- US to sanction authoritarian regimes that block internet access for protesters--Do as we say, not as we plan to do.
- Anti-Censorship Tool Used in Syria and Iran Compromised
- Governments pose greatest threat to internet, says Google's Eric Schmidt
- North Carolina Tells Blogger That Providing Dietary Advice Is Illegal, Blogger Tells NC To Read The 1st Amendment
- CEO Says SOPA & CISPA Are Needed Because A Disgruntled Customer Once Set Up A Parody Site To Mock Him
- EFF Urges Appeals Court to Protect Forums Allowing Users to Speak Online
- New York Legislation Would Ban Anonymous Online Speech
- O'Mara bill tackles anonymous online comments
- The NSA is intercepting 1.7 billion American electronic communications, daily
- Congress Looking Happy to Reauthorize Broad, Secret Spying Powers--Both sides of the aisle coming to a FISA agreement.
- Army Readies Its Mammoth Spy Blimp for First Flight
- Warrantless spying fight--"Obama officials demand full, reform-free renewal of the once-controversial power to eavesdrop without warrants." Salon
- Feds Want Warrantless Spying Loss Overturned, Saying the Law Can't Touch Them
- FBI 'looking at' law making Web sites wiretap-ready, director says--"Director Robert Mueller says FBI needs to be able to 'capture communications' of people under surveillance, but declines to elaborate on renewed lobbying effort reported by CNET two weeks ago."
- FBI quietly forms secretive Net-surveillance unit--"CNET has learned that the FBI has formed a Domestic Communications Assistance Center, which is tasked with developing new electronic surveillance technologies, including intercepting Internet, wireless, and VoIP communications."
- Revealed: Hundreds of words to avoid using online if you don't want the government spying on you (and they include 'pork', 'cloud' and 'Mexico')
- How Canada's Telecom Companies Have Secretly Supported Internet Surveillance Legislation
- Swedish telcoms giant Teliasonera complicit in mass surveillance in the world's worst dictatorships
- America's Spy State: How the Telecoms Sell Out Your Privacy
- Caught snooping: U.K. government staffers--"What a surprise: the U.K. government was forced to reveal under Freedom of Information laws that more than 1,000 civil servants have 'snooped on British citizens' private data."
- From now on, Britain's "cookie law" prohibits tracking without consent--Though it looks like it was watered down.
- Remove your social media from Google search--"About to interview for a new job or just tired of your every thought landing in Google search results? Here's how to stop that from happening in the future."