Andy Greenberg Forbes.com As the privacy controversy around full-body security scans begins tosimmer, it’s worth noting thatcourthouses andairport security checkpoints aren’t the only places where backscatter x-ray vision is…
Courtney Schlisserman Bloomberg Sales of existing houses plunged by a record 27 percent in July as the effects of a government tax credit waned, showing…
Steve Watson Infowars.net Law enforcement agencies in Washington D.C. have begun to use technology that they say can predict when crimes will be committed and…
Demian Bulwa SF Gate When the 24 Hour Fitness chain recently installed finger scanners as a way of verifying members’ identity, it was a public…
• Oil giant blamed for 10% of 9m barrels leaked in 40 years• Report claims rest of leaking oil caused by saboteurs John Vidal — The…
Jon Chown Register Pajaronian The City of Watsonville has been cited by the California Department of Public Health for failure to comply with an order…
Sheldon Richman Campaign for Liberty If you want to know what tyranny is like, look around. The national government — specifically the executive branch —…
Wikimedia Commons Image Lyle Moran Associated Press BOSTON — Some Massachusetts towns have given up enforcing a law that decriminalized the possession of small amounts…
Thanks to the Supreme Court, corporations are free to spend whatever they want on elections. They just don’t want to be seen doing it. Peter…
Naomi Wolf Huffington Post Like most consumers, I had always assumed that banks and customers are united in wanting to curtail bank fraud. Unfortunately, I…
Prison Planet Account from the Prisonplanet.com reader who was arrested On Tuesday, August 17th 2010 at around 7:45pm I returned home to find one cop…
International Business Times The production of the RFID chips, an integral element of the new generation of German identity cards, has started after the government…
Beth Fouhy Associated Press Republican candidate for governor Carl Paladino said he would transform some New York prisons into dormitories for welfare recipients, where they…
Steven Russolillo Wall Street Journal The Hindenburg Omen reared its ugly head late last week, signaling more doom and gloom as stocks plod along amid…