Spys, Big Brother and sweaty cops' fingerprints
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Lawmakers may soon pass a bill that would set up a huge network of databases that law enforcement officials could tap to find terrorists. But that kind of unfettered access to data about Americans raises eyebrows. By Ryan Singel.
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By Newbern, Pam  WHETHER or not "Big Brother" is watching you is debatable. But 10 members of a National Guard unit in Virginia very well might be.
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Portable hard drives from Apricorn, Logitech, and Microsoft use both fingerprint recognition and data encryption technologies.
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By Rich Hofmann, Philadelphia Daily News  Sep. 18--THE CRIME-SCENE investigators will be at work for days here -- such was the scope of the abomination that took place yesterday afternoon in South Philadelphia. The dusting for fingerprints went fairly quickly, though.
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NEW YORK At first glance, it might seem like the simple extension of a standard tool in the fight against the bad guys. But in fact, wiretapping Internet phones to monitor criminals and terrorists is costly
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A nonprofit group in Mumbai is spearheading an effort to place keyloggers -- which many computer users would regard as spyware -- on public machines in cybercaf&eacute;s. Reaction is mixed, and police have yet to give their assent to the plan.
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Malware, carelessness, data leaks--whether internal or external threats, there's too many to count.
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Already in use are such things as infrared cameras with built-in brains that capture license plate images and match them in milliseconds to police records of vehicles of interest to the authorities
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t first glance, it might seem like the simple extension of a standard tool in the fight against the bad guys. But in fact, wiretapping Internet phones to monitor criminals and terrorists is costly
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The dusty shelves of your local library are going high-tech with tagging chips. Civil liberties groups warn of a privacy nightmare.
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It could be the 4 million closed-circuit  television cameras, or maybe the spy drones hovering overhead,  but one way or another Britons know they are being watched. All  the time. Everywhere.
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Latest line of keyboards and mice include some with fingerprint readers for added security.
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INSPECTOR Hacker of the Yard has fingered the collar of a UK man suspected of stealing source code from Cisco Systems in May. Cyber plods from the Metropolitan Police Computer Crime Unit swooped on houses
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Terrorists who alter their fingerprints have about an even chance of slipping past U.S. border watch-list checks because the government is using a two-fingerprint system instead of one that relies on all 10 prints, a lawmaker said in a letter he made public yesterday to Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge.
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MILAN, Italy -- In an age of spy satellites, security cameras and an Internet that stores every keystroke, terrorism suspects are using simple, low-tech tricks to cloak their communications, making life difficult for authorities who had hoped technology would give them the upper hand.
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The alleged attackers may have been amateurish but they also showed the limits of the U.K.'s surveillance system