• DHS is creating another giant "terrorist" database, and guess what? They are exempting it from the Privacy Act. Why? Cuz they say so.
• Police nationwide and throughout Massachusetts are quietly expanding the brave new world of biometrics identification. Plymouth, MA is one of a number of towns in the state acquiring handheld, mobile biometrics technologies. 
• Girltech, a little handheld kids device, can disrupt the communications technologies of most federal law enforcement agencies. 
• We've already reported that Microsoft has been doing this, but now it's also Google. Europeans! Your data is not safe! Google has been sharing your data with the US intelligence world. 
• The Atlantic asks: what does London's surveillance state have to say for itself it in the wake of the troubles in that city? Is this a test?
• 358 DHS cameras are coming soon to Bay Area busses.