August 19, 2011 - BERLIN (AP) - A German data protection authority is "unliking" Facebook's "Like" button.

The state of Schleswig-Holstein's data protection commissioner, Thilo Weichert, on Friday ordered state institutions to shut down the fan pages on the social networking site and remove the "Like" button from their websites, saying it leads to ( Read more... )

Year to date statistics on Airport pat-down screening from the TSA:

Terrorist Plots  Discovered   0
Transvestites   133
Hernias     1,485
Hemorrhoid  Cases    3,172
Incontinence   6,418
Enlarged  Prostates   8,249
Breast  Implants     59,350
Natural  Blondes    3

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Internet Identity System Said Readied by Obama Administration
January 07, 2011, 7:10 AM EST

By James Sterngold
Jan. 7 (Bloomberg) -- The Obama administration plans to announce today plans for an Internet identity system that will limit fraud and streamline online transactions, leading to a surge in ( Read more... )

Welcome Home, boys, TSA "Interrogates" our Soldiers

from the email bag:
As the Chalk Leader for my flight home from Afghanistan, I witnessed the following:

When we were on our way back from Afghanistan, we flew out of Baghram Air Field. We went through customs at BAF, full body scanners (no groping), had all of our bags searched, the whole ( Read more... )

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Harvard pair sue TSA over screenings

By Donna Goodison  |   Thursday, December 2, 2010  |  http://www.bostonherald.com  |  Local Coverage
Two Harvard Law School students are suing the Transportation Security Administration, claiming the so-called “nude body scanners” and intrusive pat-downs used to ( Read more... )

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