Tuesday, January 19, 2010

FBI violates your privacy... again

From Slashdot which links to the Washington Post:
An anonymous reader writes to tell us of a report from the Washington Post which alleges that the FBI "illegally collected more than 2,000 US telephone call records between 2002 and 2006 by invoking terrorism emergencies that did not exist or simply persuading phone companies to provide records."

US attempting to strongarm Costa Rica into compliance with IP laws

Under the auspices of "free trade." The Bahamas are also discussed in the article.