Why Does Government Need Your Passenger Data?
A grand explanation for the Great Information Gather on anyone who crosses an international border. ...
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European Dispatch
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Google Street View Ruffles European Feathers
Whether a government or a private company gathers data, Europeans get nervous.
The New Trans-Atlantic SWIFT Agreement
Will it give European intelligence agencies access to U.S. banking records?
A Visa By Any Other Name …
Should the U.S. and Europe bring back the visa? Because "visa-free travel" to America no longer exists
An ePassport is a Fiendishly Slippery Thing
No sooner are new electronic identification methods out on the street than do electronic tricksters (and presumably cyber bad guys) hack them.
The ePassport Revolution
How it happened, who will benefit, and how hard will it be to counterfeit these things.
SWIFT and American Espionage
Europe's newly empowered Parliament's first muscle flex involves privacy and tracking terrorist finances.
How to Film Nazis
... And how not to. The rules are changing, just as the human memory of Nazism fades.
Sirens and Bells and City-Busting Past
The politics of remembering Allied bombing raids in Dresden pokes at the sensitive spots in Germany's democracy.