U.S. Funds Chat-Room Surveillance Study
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Amid the torrent of jabber in Internet chat rooms &#151; flirting by QTpie and BoogieBoy, arguments about politics and horror flicks &#151; are terrorists plotting their next move?
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A message attributing a U.S. diplomat's slaying in Sudan to a previously unknown militant group has been posted in the chat room of a Web site used by militants, a group that monitors such sites said Friday.
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More than 40% of wired Americans have used the net for information about the US election, a study finds.
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U.S. regulators open a public comment period on a plan to wire broadband and VoIP systems for law enforcement surveillance.
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Looks to commercial surveillance tools
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Researchers in the U.S. say they've successfully shown how attackers could compromise a network designed to make it harder to trace Web sites they are viewing.
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Unless you want to leave it to industry The European Commission has opened a public consultation on the use of surveillance technology in civil society.â¦
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US News, A university in New York has been funded to keep tabs on IRC conversations with money channelled through the National Science Foundation by the CIA, documents have revealed The CIA is quietly funding federal research into surveillance of Internet
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The US National Science Foundation has awarded a $1m grant to researchers in the US who want to put speech recognition on a chip, a move the project&#39;s proponents claim will revolutionise the way we communicate.
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U.S. university researchers will  soon begin a $13 million study of the spread of Internet  viruses using methods pioneered in tracking the outbreak of  human epidemics, researchers said on Wednesday.
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VeriSign and America Online on Tuesday announced plans to showcase software for &quot;safe chat rooms&quot; this December. The safe chat room will use authentication technology to verify a child&#39;s age.
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The government will analyze millions of U.S. passenger records in a first step toward creating a computerized screening system to protect the airlines from terrorist attack.
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Not only is the U.S. government keeping too many secrets, it's spending too much money to do it. That's the conclusion of a government watchdog group, which estimates more than $6.5 billion was spent last year keeping data under wraps. By Noah Shachtman.
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A consortium of major universities, using Homeland Security Department money, is developing software that would let the government monitor negative opinions of the United States overseas.
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Amid the torrent of jabber in Internet chat rooms - flirting by QTpie and BoogieBoy, arguments about politics and horror flicks - are terrorists plotting their next move? The government certainly isn't discounting the possibility.
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The FBI wants to compile a massive computer database and analyze it for clues to unmask terrorist sleeper cells. Two congressmen are worried about whether the bureau will protect the privacy of U.S. citizens.
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At a hearing next week, a panel plans to ask Homeland Security officials to explain how a move to expand use of powerful surveillance tools will jibe with Americans' privacy rights.