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Public Sector

Scotland Mountain Rescue turns on Ofcom

Volunteers asked to put anger into words

Government 10 Oct 18:10

Taser rival offers cops 'Trade in your Taser' zapgun deal

Also punts remote-control electroshock handcuffs

Policing 10 Oct 11:31

MoD loses most of the armed forces

Oh! what a lovely data loss

Government 10 Oct 09:20

MEPs vote to recognise flag, anthem, motto

'Ah, so that's what those tawdry baubles are'

Government 9 Oct 14:49

Porn, abuse, depravity - and how they plan to stop it

Policing the Internet Part one: Strangling content

Law 9 Oct 11:12

Secret docs loser to appear in court

Civil servant, intel docs, train seat

Government 9 Oct 10:31

Scottish NHS data safeguarded by bizarre questionnaire

Sturgeon ends fishy practices

Government 9 Oct 09:37

New USAF Cyber-war formation downgraded

Cyber Command becomes Space Command Cyber Force

Government 9 Oct 09:05

Home Office defends retaining comms data

But hasn't figured out how yet

Government 9 Oct 08:51

EC wants pan-Euro online shopping laws

Now all we need is pan-Euro shopping police

Law 9 Oct 06:02

$236m judgment lands on mom and pop spam shop

Bulk Mailing 4 Dummies

Law 8 Oct 20:39

Son of state lawmaker charged with Palin email hack

'No interwebs for you!'

Law 8 Oct 17:05

US military fails to go RFID tag-tastic

RFID in policy, bar-coded in action

Government 8 Oct 14:31

UK asks to buy next-gen spy planes from US

Plan to use replica De Havilland Comets shelved?

Government 8 Oct 14:09

UK.gov £12bn comms überdatabase 'wouldn't spot terrorists'

Influential US report says data mining ineffective

Government 8 Oct 12:19

Boris to give out Olympic 'BlackBerries'

Handheld devices promote a 'more intimate experience'

Government 8 Oct 09:13

Tories plan streamlined children's database

Only 'vulnerable' kids

Government 8 Oct 08:56

US brain trust: Beware of trawling-for-terrorist apps

Are your rights intruded?

Government 7 Oct 21:21

Yahoo! engineer arrested in Indian terror swoop

Authorities arrest 15, including three 'terror techies'

Policing 7 Oct 14:52

Get snapping for Freedom

Taking on the Surveillance Society is no picnic

Policing 7 Oct 13:44

German methanol unit wins Pentagon portable-power prize

Fuel-cell/battery combos sweep the rankings

Government 7 Oct 11:45

Spy chiefs plot £12bn IT spree for comms überdatabase

Black boxes to keep Black's firm in the black

Government 7 Oct 10:15

Mosley asks Europe to change UK privacy laws

'I should have been told first!'

Law 7 Oct 10:05

Reading privacy policies takes 10 minutes on average

Too long to read: Researchers

Law 7 Oct 09:28

Amazon patents 'customer review incentives'

Bezos unreformed

Government 6 Oct 22:54

DARPA seeks Special Forces submersible aeroplane

Wet doesn't have to mean slow any more

Government 6 Oct 14:58

The Obscene Publications Act rides again

Girls Aloud case heads for court - net holds its breath

Law 6 Oct 11:26

Credit agencies get death lists

Fighting ID fraud with weekly updates

Policing 6 Oct 11:17

Anonymous plans zombie Scientology protest

You've got red on you

Law 6 Oct 11:07

UK border facial scan tests hit by errors and breakdowns

Calibration, reliability and tailgating issues

Government 6 Oct 10:53

Miliband the Younger becomes Green Energy minister

Dept for of Energy & Climate Change set up

Government 6 Oct 09:27

Hospital staff use paper to wipe up NHS IT mess

Running out of patience

Government 6 Oct 09:20

T-Mobile joins data breach elite

17 million customer records go missing

Law 6 Oct 08:15

Sudden outbreak of democracy baffles US pundits

Comment That didn't last long

Government 3 Oct 18:47

Feds: Search engine bride was tax evading prostitute

Ask Jeeves for 'A Touch of Brazil'

Law 2 Oct 18:07

US cybersecurity shake up would give prez more control

Hands to the tiller

Government 2 Oct 17:40

'First production-line energy weapon' now shipping

Northrop delivers 'push-button' electric raygun to USAF

Government 2 Oct 13:18

UK minister looks for delete key on user generated content

Burnham lets slip UK.gov real view of the net

Government 2 Oct 12:22

DVLA: A licence to bill

Selling your data to... well, anyone

Government 2 Oct 11:42

US sky marshals submit to Heart of Gold randomware

Nobody could have predicted this

Policing 2 Oct 11:03

Emails show journalist rigged Wikipedia's naked shorts

Overstock's Byrne vindicated amidst economic meltdown

Government 1 Oct 19:41

Blizzard awarded $6m in WoW bot case

Glider crash and burn

Law 1 Oct 18:09

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