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AFP: Estonia to boost web surveillance after Norway attack

“At the moment one thing is clear — as a preventive measure we plan to increase the capacity of Internet monitoring so we can pick up information from the Internet about possible attack plans or anything that can jeopardise internal security,” he told AFP.

CNET: Geo-privacy bills aim to curb warrantless tracking

> From the article: “Police would no longer be able to conduct warrantless surveillance of Americans’ whereabouts, according to legislation introduced today that would require search warrants to monitor the locations of cars or mobile devices.”

CNET News: House panel approves broadened ISP snooping bill

> From the article: Bill would force ISPs to keep logs of customers’ activities for 1yr in case police want to review them … to make it politically difficult to oppose, proponents named the bill the Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act

The Local: Google-funded Berlin internet institute to launch in October

> From the article: “A Google-funded institute in Berlin to study the internet’s impact on society is starting to take shape, with the US tech giant company announcing on Monday it would invest €4.5 million ($6.3 million) in the project.”

CBS: Homeless Children: The Hard Times Generation

> From the story: “… it is estimated the poverty rate for kids in this country will soon hit 25 percent. Those children would be the largest American generation to be raised in hard times since the Great Depression.”

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