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Australians Fear Cities Becoming Like Great ‘Orwellian’ Britain

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By Mick Meaney RINF Alternative News  Melbourne residents are becoming increasingly concerned about the growing level of surveillance on their day to day business and have likened the increase of CCTV cameras to the

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Bush domestic spying program flawed

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By Greg Gordon McClatchy Newspapers The former chief judge of a secret national security court took a swipe Saturday at the administration’s recently halted domestic spying program and said he insisted from the outset

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E-vote ‘threat’ to UK democracy

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British democracy could be undermined by moves to use electronic voting in elections, warns a report. The risks involved in swapping paper ballots for touch screens far outweigh any benefits they may have, says

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Ashcroft Tells of Surveillance Disputes

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By Paul Kane washingtonpost.com Former attorney general John D. Ashcroft told the House intelligence committee yesterday about disputes in the Bush administration over aspects of its domestic surveillance program, which peaked in the March

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Pentagon sends another detainee to Guantanamo

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Kristin Roberts Reuters The Pentagon said on Friday it sent a suspected commander of an al Qaeda-affiliated group to the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, increasing detainee ranks at the facility as some U.S.

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