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The U.S. House of Representatives passed the CISPA cybersecurity bill today, despite protests by civil liberties groups who point out that it puts Americans' online privacy at risk.
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Chicago -
A monitoring group has just released a video of a 3-year-old boy in a wheelchair being frisked by a TSA agent at Chicago's O'Hare Airport. So what's new?
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The banned National League for Democracy (NLD) headed by Myanmar's democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, may now re-register as a legitimate political party under the new Myanmar dispensation, clearing the way for the party to field Suu Kyi in next election.
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The British Medical Association has called for a ban on smoking in cars; Sean Gabb, Britain's leading Libertarian, is left hot under the collar.
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On the BBC’s 'Breakfast' news programme this morning, a woman called to microchip the entire population; the good news is that she was talking about dogs. For now.
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A recent study claims to find an association between passive smoking and teenage deafness, but is this just more anti-smoking hype?
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Without being convicted of any crime, a British citizen with an abnormally low IQ of 48 has been ordered by a UK High Court judge to refrain from sex and to be placed under surveillance to enforce the ruling.
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Toronto -
Toronto Police used the 70-year old Public Works Protection Act during the G20 Summit end at the end of June 2010. That Act has become a battlefield, with the police overstepping the details with questionable practices and the public being misled.
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Vancouver police have acquired an acoustic device capable of emitting focused directed sound at levels between 99 and 146 decibels, and Olympics opponents and civil libertarians alike fear it will be used to disrupt protests during the Olympic Games.
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Yesterday's convention on Modern Liberty included keynote speeches from Shami Chakrabarti director of Liberty, Philip Pullman well known author and David Davis MP.
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Republican presidential hopeful, Ron Paul, received loud cheers as he told supporters there must be more openness in government and more privacy for citizens.
 Thousands of people returned to Montreal's streets Monday night, some of them marching toward Premier Jean Charest's home as they continued to protest against tuition hikes and Quebec's new Bill 78 emergency law, which has been criticized as suppressing civil liberties.
Two tornados leave the town of West Liberty, Ky., in ruins.
Dolphins should be treated as non-human "persons" and their rights to life and liberty respected, the world's biggest science meeting is told.
Republican candidate uses commencement speech to cement gay marriage position.
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The newest biological testing will begin in the subways of Boston, in the summer of 2012. Department of Homeland...
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