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                    [Title] => Group: Snowden proved NSA Internet spying harms Americans
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The American Civil Liberties Union and other groups sued the National Security Agency and the Justice Department on Tuesday, challenging the government's practice of collecting personal information from vast amounts of data harvested directly from the Internet's infrastructure.

[DatePublished] => 2015-03-11 09:41:28 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1432838 [AuthorName] => Juliet Linderman [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/world/20150311/nsa-surveillance-laws.jpg ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 956161 [Title] => Unmanned aircraft struggle to shed 'drone' image [Summary] =>

Unmanned aircraft have helped rescue stranded hikers, worked to contain wildfires and gathered data at nuclear accidents. One helped a Russian tanker find its way through Arctic ice to bring oil to a stranded Alaskan community.

[DatePublished] => 2013-06-20 06:18:26 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1738904 [AuthorName] => Sarah DiLorenzo [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/5466/j0mn.jpg ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 851395 [Title] => Judge denies request to stop anti-Muslim film clip [Summary] =>

An actress who appeared in an anti-Muslim film trailer that sparked violence in the Middle East lost her legal challenge on Thursday to have the 14-minute trailer taken down from YouTube.

[DatePublished] => 2012-09-21 08:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 830421 [Title] => New lab working on security shoe sole to ID people [Summary] =>

High-tech security? Forget those irksome digital eye scans. Meet the biometric shoe.

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A watchful eye has arrived on San Francisco’s bar scene, but not to keep you in check. It just wants to check you out.

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Users of the file-sharing website Megaupload who feared their data could be deleted as early as Thursday have a reprieve after a nonprofit group stepped in at the eleventh hour.

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Technology bloggers are asking if our cellphones are spying on us after a security researcher said a piece of software hidden on millions of phones was recording virtually everything people do with them.

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The latest Facebook privacy fiasco shows that the world's largest online social hub is having a hard time putting this thorny issue behind it even as it continues to attract users and become indispensible to many of them.

[DatePublished] => 2010-10-19 09:36:55 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 601408 [Title] => Info freedom at center of Gulf's BlackBerry debate [Summary] =>

The militants who carried out the 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai, India, used mobile phones and other handheld gadgets to coordinate an assault that left 166 dead. 

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Owners of the iPhone will be able to legally unlock their devices so they can run software applications that haven't been approved by Apple Inc., according to new government rules announced yesterday.

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