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Centers Tap Into Personal Databases

Intelligence centers run by states across the country have access to personal information about millions of Americans, including unlisted cellphone numbers, insurance claims, driver’s license photographs and credit reports, according to a document obtained by The Washington Post.

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Washington Post Starts an Online Magazine for Blacks

Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. will be editor in chief of the online magazine, called The Root.

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Saul Williams talks about his new album, The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust

In an interview on Wednesday with News.com, Williams revealed he is grateful for the opportunity to promote his music using groundbreaking techniques and also to technology for setting him free from the “constraints of race.”

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MC Hammer Launches Silicon Valley Web Video Firm

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Hammer, whose real name is Stanley Burrell, is choreographing a new career as co-founder and chief strategy officer of Menlo Park-based DanceJam.com.

The Web site, scheduled to debut in mid-January, will try to upstage YouTube and become the Internet’s hub for sharing and watching dance videos. DanceJam then hopes to make money by grabbing a piece of the rapidly growing Internet advertising market, which is expected to rake in $27.5 billion in 2008, according to eMarketer.

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Phone and Email Data-Mining Used in War on Drugs, Too

Do not let it be said that the Bush administration forgot the War on Drugs while waging the War on Terror.

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Your Privacy Is Someone Else’s Profit

Private companies have more control over our personal information than we do, as the new book, iSpy: Surveillance and Power in the Interactive Era, explains.

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From Casinos to Counterterrorism

LAS VEGAS — This city, famous for being America’s playground, has also become its security lab. Like nowhere else in the United States, Las Vegas has embraced the twin trends of data mining and high-tech surveillance, with arguably more cameras per square foot than any airport or sports arena in…

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Will Google’s Greed Ruin the Internet?

Google’s new marketing strategy poses a huge threat to our privacy and democratic aspirations for the Internet.

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New York City’s Explosion in Police Repression and Surveillance

High-tech surveillance and undercover spying on protests by the NYPD have soared — this is what happens when the “War on Terror” comes home.
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‘Resident Evil: Extinction’ Flick Based on Racist Video Game Series

As they pack into theaters to watch Resident Evil: Extinction this weekend, moviegoers may first want to play one of the many blockbuster video games on which the film is based, which display nakedly racist overtones.

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