Technology

Are Voter Registration Drives Being Put Out of Business?
AlterNet - Tue Jul 24, 2007
In 2004, Floridians overwhelmingly voted to raise their state minimum wage after low-income advocates collected ballot petition signatures, registered thousands of new voters and turned out the vote. More»

Will Electronic Voting Reform Create New Ways to Steal Elections?
AlterNet - Sun Jun 3, 2007
This week, the House is expected to pass the first-ever bill regulating electronic voting. More»

$82 Buys E-Voting Secrets
Wired - Thu Feb 15, 2007
For a mere $82 a computer scientist and electronic voting critic managed to purchase five $5,000 Sequoia electronic voting machines over the internet last month from a government auction site. More»

Whistle-Blower Outs NSA Spy Room
Wired News - Tue Apr 11, 2006
AT&T provided National Security Agency eavesdroppers with full access to its customers phone calls, and shunted its customers internet traffic to data-mining equipment installed in a secret room in its San Francisco switching center, according to a former AT&T worker cooperating in the Electronic Frontier Foundations lawsuit against the company. More»

Dell to Double Indian Workforce
BBC - Mon Mar 20, 2006
Computer giant Dell plans to double its Indian workforce to 20,000 over the next three years. More»

Google Ordered to Hand Over Data
BBC - Sat Mar 18, 2006
A federal judge has ordered internet search engine Google to turn over some search data, including 50,000 web addresses, to the US government. More»

'Cyber Storm' Tests US Defences
BBC - Sat Feb 11, 2006
Vital US infrastructure including power grids and banking systems have been put under simulated attack in a week-long security exercise called Cyber Storm. More»

Annoy someone online - two years in jail?
ZDNet - Sun Jan 8, 2006
Its no joke - Last Thursday, President Bush signed into law a prohibition on posting annoying Web messages or sending annoying e-mail messages without disclosing your true identity. More»

Powerful Government Accountability Office report confirms key 2004 stolen election findings
The Free Press - Tue Oct 25, 2005
As a legal noose appears to be tightening around the Bush/Cheney/Rove inner circle, a shocking government report shows the floor under the legitimacy of their alleged election to the White House is crumbling. More»

Cisco pours investment into India
BBC - Tue Oct 18, 2005
Cisco Systems, the worlds biggest maker of internet equipment, plans to inject $1bn of investment into India over the next three years. More»

The NASA hacker: Scapegoat or public enemy?
ZD Net - Tue Jul 12, 2005
Gary McKinnon has a lot to worry about. More»

ChoicePoint Wins Big Brother Award
Wired - Sun Apr 17, 2005
A data broker that sold personal information to identity thieves, an elementary school that tried to track students with radio-frequency ID tags and a consulting firm that helped orchestrate an invasive traveler-monitoring system all received honors this week from privacy rights advocates. More»

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