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Whoops! Pentagon posts budget docs to web a few days early (Jan 30 2004)

Is "permission based marketer" another way to say spammer? [sp] (Jan 30 2004)

Fortune cover story profiles Kazaa founders and telco wars (Jan 30 2004)

EFF's action alert calls for hearings on CAPPS II [priv] (Jan 30 2004)

Bill Purdy, UDRP'd in dispute over startribunenewspaper.com [fs] (Jan 30 2004)

Ashcroft warns Congress not to mess with Patriot Act [priv] (Jan 30 2004)

Followup to Canadian cops raiding reporter's home [fs] (Jan 30 2004)

EU biometric passport faces some legal questions [priv] (Jan 30 2004)

Joel Reidenberg's article on ways to enforce laws online (Jan 30 2004)

Justice Ginsburg warns against apathy with a word to the wise (Jan 30 2004)

Commerce Dept, ICANN now defendants in SiteFinder lawsuit (Jan 30 2004)

More on Dean wanting to implant smartcard readers in PCs [priv] (Jan 28 2004)

A Bill Purdy copycat? Anti-abortion domain name registrations [fs] (Jan 28 2004)

"Permission-based email marketers" confused about CAN SPAM law [sp] (Jan 28 2004)

Antivirus companies are unrepentant spammers? [sp] (Jan 28 2004)

Text of opinion in Patriot Act and First Amendment case (Jan 27 2004)

John Kerry voted for the Patriot Act, and now opposes it [priv] (Jan 26 2004)

Where Democratic presidential candidates stand on tech (Jan 26 2004)

AVN's Mark Kernes on Bruce Taylor and porn-prosecutors [fs] (Jan 26 2004)

Mike Godwin on Godwin's law, HP, and Nazi analogies [ip] (Jan 26 2004)

What should the Feds do (if anything) to promote IPv6? (Jan 26 2004)

Canadian cops raid reporter's home in probe over leaks [fs] (Jan 26 2004)

Libety Round Table supports exhibitionist webmistress [fs] (Jan 26 2004)

Privacy villains of the week: NASA and Northwest Airlines [priv] (Jan 26 2004)

Howard Dean's speech calling for smartcard-based national ID [priv] (Jan 26 2004)

Weekly column: Howard Dean's worrisome views on privacy [priv] (Jan 26 2004)

Unions plan to inject outsourcing of tech jobs into campaign (Jan 24 2004)

California DeCSS case eventually, finally, over [ip] (Jan 24 2004)

Senate Republican staff reportedly spied on Democrats [priv] (Jan 24 2004)

Bruce Taylor on dedicated prosecutors and porn convictions [fs] (Jan 24 2004)

Michael Geist's defense of Canada's data collection law [priv] (Jan 24 2004)

Who owns facts? House committee approves database bill [ip] (Jan 24 2004)

Pentagon's Internet "secure voting" system probably isn't (Jan 23 2004)

Criticisms of "HP and death of open PC" Politech post (Jan 23 2004)

Why not to answer census: Answers used against you [priv] (Jan 23 2004)

Senators call for long-overdue upgrade to thomas.loc.gov (Jan 23 2004)

Cato's Adam Thierer on FCC and "return of the 7 dirty words" (Jan 15 2004)

Newsforge.com: Saudi Arabia's Net filters don't work very well [fs] (Jan 15 2004)

HP users cry foul at looming death of the open PC (Jan 15 2004)

Rep. Fred Upton plans "anti-indecency" legislation for FCC [fs] (Jan 15 2004)

Doubleclick, Microsoft officers join TRUSTE board of directors (Jan 15 2004)

NewRomeSucks.com helps to slay America's most infamous speed trap (Jan 15 2004)

Russ Roberts on Apple iTunes and "the economics of invention" (Jan 15 2004)

The Internet built up Howard Dean -- now it will destroy him (Jan 14 2004)

Clark supporter replies to Politech over privacy and Axciom [priv] (Jan 14 2004)

Joe Lieberman makes privacy a 2004 campaign issue [priv] (Jan 14 2004)

Paul Levy on suing the Treasury Dept. over privacy breach [priv] (Jan 14 2004)

Wesley Clark sought presidency as lobbyist for Acxiom (Jan 14 2004)

U.S. officials get access to Canadian tax, immig. records [priv] (Jan 14 2004)

ACLU fights for Rush Limbaugh's medical privacy [priv] (Jan 14 2004)

David Stephenson on a "win-win" homeland security strategy (Jan 14 2004)

Joseph Reagle's experiences with NYU and privacy [priv] (Jan 14 2004)

Felipe Rodriquez on Microsoft and the Internet's "paradigm shift" (Jan 14 2004)

FCC Chairman Powell wants to increase broadcast censorship [fs] (Jan 14 2004)

Adobe bows to gvt pressure, includes banknote detection in Photoshop (Jan 12 2004)

Casino chips may be implanted with RFID tags [priv] (Jan 12 2004)

New York Univ. on defensive after student data appears on Web [priv] (Jan 12 2004)

Grocery stores apologize for attack on anti-grocery card activist [priv] (Jan 12 2004)

Feds plan to rachet up demands for air passenger info [priv] (Jan 12 2004)

Richard Rahn on markets, monopolies and government abuse of power (Jan 12 2004)

Competitive Enterprise Instit. on the "New Protectionism" (Jan 12 2004)

Speed camera accuracy challenged, once again [priv] (Jan 12 2004)

FBI, Justice Dept. seek wiretaps for VoIP conversations [priv] (Jan 08 2004)

Treasury Dept. breaks word on keeping email addresses private [priv] (Jan 08 2004)

Is the FBI using email Web bugs? [priv] (Jan 07 2004)

Bill Purdy vs. the Faegre & Benson law firm (guess who wins) [fs] (Jan 06 2004)

Matchmaking spam: "Looking for Juror #3 Van Nuys Superior Court" [sp] (Jan 06 2004)

Politics as usual: Demopublicans trade jabs over Hitler-Bush ad (Jan 06 2004)

Text of FBI's infamous "Almanac Alert" now online [priv][fs] (Jan 06 2004)

Michael Savage loses censorship bid, victory for free speech [fs] (Jan 06 2004)

Shop for a flight simulator game, get interrogated by police (Jan 06 2004)

Another Vietnamese journalist jailed for criticizing government [fs] (Jan 05 2004)

Anonymous domain name registrations... and spam problems [priv][sp] (Jan 05 2004)

A defense of techcentralstation's journalism and credibility (Jan 05 2004)

A criticism of "Are cops constitutional?" law review article (Jan 05 2004)

Your Bank Account, Your Liberties (Jan 05 2004)

Semi-anonymous domain name registrations? [priv] (Jan 05 2004)

FBI demands Las Vegas guest lists -- with no court order [priv] (Jan 05 2004)

iTunes DRM reportedly cracked wide open for GNU/Linux (Jan 05 2004)

Dan Geer on Barbra Streisand's privacy suit, TSA and databases (Jan 05 2004)

techcentralstation.com: Reinventing lobbying as journalism? (Jan 05 2004)

TSA tries to detect terrorists through public databases [priv] (Jan 01 2004)

Adrian Lamo, hacker-turned-journalism-student, speaks (Jan 01 2004)

Andrew Odlyzko on pricing and architecture of the Internet (Jan 01 2004)

Barbra Streisand loses suit against californiacoastline.org [fs][priv] (Jan 01 2004)

Annalee Newitz on black markets in circumvention devices [ip] (Jan 01 2004)

What to do if you're sued by the RIAA: updated [ip] (Jan 01 2004)

Brock Meeks' CyberWire Dispatch, R.I.P. (Jan 01 2004)

Happy New Year! (Jan 01 2004)