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Secret drug company payments to doctors remain legal in 48 states
By David Gutierrez Only five states and the District of Columbia require that pharmaceutical companies report gifts they...
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Watchdog: Corruption Hinders US-Funded Reconstruction Projects
AP The latest audit report to Congress on Iraq reconstruction says corruption in the country, including fraud, theft and...
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E-voting hacks to get Capitol Hill spotlight
By Anne Broache A recent report documenting computer scientists’ ability to hack into voting machines certified for...
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Committee demanding details of NSA data-mining
A House committee is requesting Justice Department documents on a data-mining project that identified the senders and recipients...
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£31m poured into ID cards scheme
By Gemma Simpson The ID cards scheme has cost more than £30m over the past financial year. During the year ending 31 March,...
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ID cards will give ‘false’ data
By Sarah Spiller The government’s ID card system will give thousands of “false matches” when more than...
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MPs outraged by pupil fingerprinting
Guidelines raise concerns over security, consent and access By Dinah Greek MPs have criticised new guidance from Becta that...
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Britain will take troops out of Iraq regardless of US, says PM
By Andrew Grice Gordon Brown has paved the way for the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq by telling George Bush he would...
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MoD’s PR army of spin is out of control
By Ben Bold Britain’s defence chiefs are spending millions of pounds on more than 1,000 spin doctors to improve the...
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Aspartame: Missing the Point?
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Bush calls for retroactive legalization of illegal wiretapping
by Adam Thomas US President George W. Bush today asked for more powers to wiretap without warrants, in effect retroactively...
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Pentagon to implant microchips in soldiers’ brains
By Adam Thomas The Department of Defense is planning to implant microchips in soldiers’ brains for monitoring their...
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Defense Earnings Continue To Soar
War, Technology Drive Up Spending By Renae Merle Several of Washington’s largest defense contractors said last week...
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Police demand law change for drug drivers
David Batty Monday July 30, 2007 Guardian Unlimited Police want to drop the field impairment test for drivers suspected...
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Da Vinci’s Last Supper: New conspiracy theory
By Matthew Moore It is a conspiracy theory worthy of a Dan Brown novel. New claims that Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last...
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Britain accused of failing in its responsibility to refugees
By Nigel Morris The few Iraqi refugees who complete the perilous and expensive trip to Britain have little prospect of being...
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New World Order Video: Google Spider Goats
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Most vote machines lose test to hackers
John Wildermuth State-sanctioned teams of computer hackers were able to break through the security of virtually every model...
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MPs reject Brown call for 56-day detention
By Nigel Morris Legislation proposed by the Government to allow terrorist suspects to be held for up to 56 days without charge...
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Bush Aide Blocked Report
Global Health Draft In 2006 Rejected for Not Being Political By Christopher Lee and Marc Kaufman A surgeon general’s...
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Beware of Mr Brown. He’s after your rights
The new Prime Minister is subtler than Mr Blair, but he also believes our freedom gets in the way of security Henry Porter The...
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RFID: Every Step You Take … They’ll Be Watching You
By Todd Lewan Radio frequency ID chips already track products. What about people? The implantation of RFID chips in human...
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The True and Shocking History of the CIA
By Tim Weiner An on-the-record master history of the CIA has finally been published, and it lesson is that an incompetent...
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Police tell parents to ‘spy’ on Facebook kids
By Ellen Connolly POLICE are advising parents to join social networking websites – such as MySpace and Facebook –...
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Mining of Data Prompted Fight Over U.S. Spying
By SCOTT SHANE and DAVID JOHNSTON A 2004 dispute over the National Security Agency’s secret surveillance program that led...




