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		<title>Priest Uses Fingerprint Reader to Monitor Mass Attendance</title>
		<link>http://cryptogon.com/?p=13567</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 03:04:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via: Reuters:
A Polish priest has installed an electronic reader in his church for schoolchildren to leave their fingerprints in order to monitor their attendance at mass, the Gazeta Wyborcza daily said on Friday.
The pupils will mark their fingerprints every time they go to church over three years and if they attend 200 masses they will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FBI Wants Records Kept of Web Sites Visited *Yawn*</title>
		<link>http://cryptogon.com/?p=13564</link>
		<comments>http://cryptogon.com/?p=13564#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 02:53:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Covert Operations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m posting this to let those of you (who are submitting this) know that I don&#8217;t understand why you find it noteworthy.
With all the posts I&#8217;ve done on network surveillance, I&#8217;m getting story submissions about retention of URLs?
Guys, splash some cold water on your faces, break out the smelling salts, wake up.
It might be that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>States Storing Newborns&#8217; DNA Without Parental Consent</title>
		<link>http://cryptogon.com/?p=13545</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:48:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via: CNN:
When Annie Brown&#8217;s daughter, Isabel, was a month old, her pediatrician asked Brown and her husband to sit down because he had some bad news to tell them: Isabel carried a gene that put her at risk for cystic fibrosis.
While grateful to have the information &#8212; Isabel received further testing and she doesn&#8217;t have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sim City Baghdad</title>
		<link>http://cryptogon.com/?p=13515</link>
		<comments>http://cryptogon.com/?p=13515#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:50:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social Engineering]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via: On The Media:
The U.S. Army has long used video games to train troops in conventional warfare. But the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are anything but conventional. US troops fighting insurgencies need a unique skill set, one they&#8217;re learning from a simulator that resembles the popular game SimCity. Kim LeMasters, creative director of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Police Want Point and Click Access to Private Email</title>
		<link>http://cryptogon.com/?p=13502</link>
		<comments>http://cryptogon.com/?p=13502#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Police State]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via:  Cnet:
Anyone with an e-mail account likely knows that police can peek inside it if they have a paper search warrant.
But cybercrime investigators are frustrated by the speed of traditional methods of faxing, mailing, or e-mailing companies these documents. They&#8217;re pushing for the creation of a national Web interface linking police computers with those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GOOGLE NOW WORKING WITH NSA</title>
		<link>http://cryptogon.com/?p=13499</link>
		<comments>http://cryptogon.com/?p=13499#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Covert Operations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Infrastructure]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via: Washington Post:
The world&#8217;s largest Internet search company and the world&#8217;s most powerful electronic surveillance organization are teaming up in the name of cybersecurity.
Under an agreement that is still being finalized, the National Security Agency would help Google analyze a major corporate espionage attack that the firm said originated in China and targeted its computer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Unique &#8211; and Trackable &#8211; Is Your Browser?</title>
		<link>http://cryptogon.com/?p=13480</link>
		<comments>http://cryptogon.com/?p=13480#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:02:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Surveillance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via: Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Is your browser configuration rare or unique? If so, web sites may be able to track you, even if you limit or disable cookies.
Panopticlick tests your browser to see how unique it is based on the information it will share with sites it visits. Click below and you will be given a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft Executive Thinks That Individuals Should Have to Obtain Government Licenses to Use Internet</title>
		<link>http://cryptogon.com/?p=13409</link>
		<comments>http://cryptogon.com/?p=13409#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dictatorship]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via: AFP:
The world needs a treaty to prevent cyber attacks becoming an all-out war, the head of the main UN communications and technology agency warned Saturday.
International Telcommunications Union secretary general Hamadoun Toure gave his warning at a World Economic Forum debate where experts said nations must now consider when a cyber attack becomes a declaration [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My U.S. Credit Card Was Deactivated After I Sent $20 to Wikileaks</title>
		<link>http://cryptogon.com/?p=13309</link>
		<comments>http://cryptogon.com/?p=13309#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:52:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wikileaks is down for fund raising. I sent them $20 using my U.S. credit card.
The next day, Bank of America&#8217;s Magic 8 Ball deactivated my account and sent this to me:
Irregular Credit Card Activity
Account: 	 Bank of America ending in XXXX
Date: 	 01/25/2010
We detected irregular activity on your Bank of America Credit Card on 01/25/2010. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Court Rules That Mass Surveillance of Americans is Immune From Judicial Review</title>
		<link>http://cryptogon.com/?p=13250</link>
		<comments>http://cryptogon.com/?p=13250#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 10:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via: EFF:
A federal judge has dismissed Jewel v. NSA, a case from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on behalf of AT&#038;T customers challenging the National Security Agency&#8217;s mass surveillance of millions of ordinary Americans&#8217; phone calls and emails.
&#8220;We&#8217;re deeply disappointed in the judge&#8217;s ruling,&#8221; said EFF Legal Director Cindy Cohn. &#8220;This ruling robs innocent telecom [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Britain: Police Plan to Use Military-Style Spy Drones</title>
		<link>http://cryptogon.com/?p=13248</link>
		<comments>http://cryptogon.com/?p=13248#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 10:35:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Police State]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via: Guardian:
Police in the UK are planning to use unmanned spy drones, controversially deployed in Afghanistan, for the ­&#8221;routine&#8221; monitoring of antisocial motorists, ­protesters, agricultural thieves and fly-tippers, in a significant expansion of covert state surveillance.
The arms manufacturer BAE Systems, which produces a range of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for war zones, is adapting the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Sharing</title>
		<link>http://cryptogon.com/?p=13151</link>
		<comments>http://cryptogon.com/?p=13151#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:46:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Surveillance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not saying to use (or not use) his plugin, but I like this summary of the threat.
Via: Google Sharing:
Google thrives where privacy does not. If you&#8217;re like most internet users, Google knows more about you than you might be comfortable with. Whether you were logged in to a Google account or not, they know [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FBI Broke Law for Years in Phone Record Searches</title>
		<link>http://cryptogon.com/?p=13135</link>
		<comments>http://cryptogon.com/?p=13135#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:43:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dictatorship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Surveillance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[* pfft *
But rest easy, citizen, &#8220;FBI officials said they are confident that the safeguards enacted in 2007 have ended the problems.&#8221;
Conveniently, the article doesn&#8217;t mention domestic NSA intercept operations.
Via: Washington Post:
The FBI illegally collected more than 2,000 U.S. telephone call records between 2002 and 2006 by invoking terrorism emergencies that did not exist or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Companies Building Credit Profiles Based on Twitbook Traffic?</title>
		<link>http://cryptogon.com/?p=13093</link>
		<comments>http://cryptogon.com/?p=13093#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 16:21:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not The Onion.
Via: creditcard.com:
You probably don&#8217;t analyze the chatter or quality of your social media connections, but creditors may be doing just that.
In their quest to identify creditworthy customers, some are tapping into the information you and your friends reveal in the virtual stratosphere. Before calling the privacy police, though, understand how it&#8217;s really being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>George W. Obama</title>
		<link>http://cryptogon.com/?p=13090</link>
		<comments>http://cryptogon.com/?p=13090#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 15:43:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Atrocities]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via: Village Voice:
Before President Obama, it was grimly accurate to write, as I often did in the Voice, that George W. Bush came into the presidency with no discernible background in constitutional civil liberties or any acquaintance with the Constitution itself. Accordingly, he turned the &#8220;war on terror&#8221; over to Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld—ardent [...]]]></description>
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