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    FBI going undercover with false profiles in social networking sites

    by Publisher2 March 19, 2010 Defense

    US law enforcement agents are following the rest of the Internet world into popular social-networking services, going undercover with false online profiles to communicate with suspects and gather private information, according to an internal Justice Department document that offers a tantalizing glimpse of issues related to privacy and crime-fighting.
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    Darpa Wants Self-Guiding, Storytelling Cameras

    by Publisher2 March 19, 2010 Defense

    The Pentagon’s risk-taking research agency is kicking off a new program to turn everyday cameras into autonomous ‘bots with problem-solving smarts.
    Darpa is already after all kinds of highly intelligent robo-critters. In the past few months, they’ve launched projects to create a real-life C3PO and a surveillance system to pinpoint threats in heaps of visual data. [...]

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    Russia considering collecting and storing every Russian’s fingerprints

    by Publisher2 March 19, 2010 Defense

    All-nation fingerprint database for Russia
    (RT) — Every Russian’s fingerprints may soon be collected into a comprehensive database as the country’s investigative committee claims this will make searching for criminals and identifying them easier.
    Aleksandr Bastrykin, chief deputy prosecutor of the Russian Federation, has announced that he would like to see a national fingerprint database of residents. [...]

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    Controlling the waves: FCC shows off spectrum map

    by Publisher2 March 19, 2010 Defense

    The FCC has launched a beta version of its proposed Spectrum Dashboard, showing who owns which airwaves and where in an easy-to-use format.
    The Spectrum Dashboard is part of the FCC’s plan to provide better information about who owns what, and was proposed as part of the National Broadband Plan which went public yesterday – but [...]

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