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Big brands turning to Big Brother
Questionnaires and focus groups aren’t enought – now companies are having volunteers filmed for days on end to see what makes customers really tick, finds Stephen Hoare Teenagers around the world could soon be
Read More »Big brother Britain
How can free people grapple with growing threats to their privacy and liberty? A computer-security guru’s view of the surveillance dystopia worries Becky Hogge Becky Hogge The entry for “tin-foil hat” in Wikipedia includes
Read More »Surveillance cameras, metal detectors in US schools
The Township Council has awarded a contract to an Ocean County company for new video surveillance equipment for the Lenape Regional High School District.North American Video Inc. of Brick Township was the lowest bidder
Read More »Russia and US accused of abusing men freed from Guantanamo Bay
Andrew Osborn The Kremlin and the United States have been accused of flouting international law in areport which tells the little-known story of seven Russian men freed from Guantanamo Bay. According to the report
Read More »Fake Maritime Boundaries
Craig Murray The British Government has published a map showing the coordinates of the incident, well within an Iran/Iraq maritime border. The mainstream media and even the blogosphere has bought this hook, line and
Read More »BBC fights to suppress internal report into allegations of bias against Israel
Andy McSmith The BBC was in court yesterday fighting over the public’s right to know. But the Corporation was not battling to bring information into the open. Instead it has paid an estimated £200,000
Read More »Hicks faces about a year in Australian jail
Tom Allard DAVID HICKS will be behind bars in Australia until after this year’s election, but his stint in an Adelaide prison will be relatively short, under a plea bargain being hammered out between
Read More »The future’s bright, the future’s green
Tara Greaves Say electric vehicle and many people think milk float – unless, that is, they have taken a look at the latest cars and bikes on display at the Green Wheels event in
Read More »CU professor uses grass pellets as an alternative energy
Jennie Daley Grass pellets sound more like rabbit food than a local, sustainable energy source, but a Cornell University professor hopes to change that perception.Jerry Cherney, the E.V. Baker professor of agriculture in the
Read More »UK sailors detained 0.5 km inside Iranian waters, embassy confirms
Iran confirmed Wednesday that the detention of 15 British marines and sailors took place last Friday after they had illegally entered Iranian territorial waters in the northern part of the Persian Gulf. “Iran has
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