Laptops can be confiscated and searched at US border without cause says report (Friday 01st of August 2008 05:01:00 PM)
Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds, Laptops, manageable Audio, movable Video, Storage
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further testament of our rapidly eroding civil liberties, the office ...
(more)Something I think not even George Orwell saw coming (Wednesday 05th of March 2008 01:15:00 PM)
It could have been part of some weird dream I might have had this morning, but I'm pretty sure
I was awake. I won't double check the story, because if it turned out it was a dream, there's
no entry for me to post. If ...
(more)Study to equip cars with tracking hardware, send testers faux bills (Friday 14th of December 2007 01:51:00 PM)
Filed under: GPS, TransportationWe've been hearing about these highway use tax trials for years
now, but apparently, a new $16.5 million Road User Charge Study will be looking for 2,700
mettlesome individuals that won't mind driving around with a radar ...
(more)Paris set for 'Big Brother' (ANI via Yahoo! India News) (Monday 20th of August 2007 07:30:19 AM)
London, Aug 20 (ANI): Paris Hilton is reportedly set to star in reality TV series Big Brother.
The former jailbird* has been offered 300,000 pounds to appear in the Channel 4 programme
scheduled for January 2008. The offer makes the hotel heiress the ...
(more)I thought we were headed for 1984 (Wednesday 02nd of May 2007 02:18:00 PM)
In the UK it's infinitely worse! All the surveillance, etc., the naming and shaming... Even if
you're trying on new clothes in one of those cubicles they film you. They're also far ahead of
us when it comes to the monitoring of your internet activities, ...
(more)An Orwellian nightmare (Friday 02nd of February 2007 12:44:00 PM)
Big Brother is about to take over. Not as massively as in George Orwell's novel Nineteen
Eighty-Four, but still. Yesterday the Public Transport Chipcard was introduced in the
Netherlands, the Dutch Revenue Service are going to scan license plates of cars ...
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