Communications Privacy

• Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, by Steven Aftergood (Federation of American Scientists)
• Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (ACLU)
• Issue: NSA spying (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
• UPDATE 3 - Spy, phone protection bill clears US Senate hurdle (Reuters)
• Bush urges passage of bill to overhaul spy power, by Thomas Ferraro (Reuters)
• Mass spying means gross errors, by Jennifer Granick (WIRED Magazine)
• What's at stake in the surveillance debate in Congress, by Jennifer Granick (WIRED Magazine)
• FBI E-mail shows rift over warramtless phone record grabs, by Ryan Singel (WIRED Magazine)
• What the FISA debate is not about, by Marty Lederman (Balkinization)
• The total information awareness project lives on, by Mark Williams (Technology Review [Published by MIT])
• Senators block consideration of wiretap bill (CNN)
• President's Radio Address, by George W. Bush (The White House)
• Statement of the Honorable Patrick Leahy, United States Senator, Vermont

Internet Access

• Confessions of a Wi-Fi theif, by Lev Grossman (TIME Magazine)
• Wirecutters: state-run Wi-fi, by Mark Halper (TIME Magazine)
• Welcome to Wi-Fi-Ville, by Kristinal Dell (TIME Magazine)
• MuniWireless (muniwireless.com)
• Long-distance Wi-Fi, by Kate Greene (Technology Review [Published by MIT])
• Where's my free wi-fi?, by Tim Wu (Slate Magazine)
• Cities unleash free Wi-Fi, by Michael Grebb (WIRED Magazine)
• Don't let fear kill muni Wi-Fi, by Jennifer Granick (WIRED Magazine)
• Steal this Wi-Fi, by Bruce Schneier (WIRED Magazine)
• Charging by the byte to curb internet traffic, by Brian Stelter (New York Times)
• Comcast defends role as internet traffic cop, by Cecilia Kang (Washington Post)
• Time Warner Cable may abandon unlimited internet access, by Erik Larkin (Washington Post)
• The UK broadband infrastructure and the debate we should be having., by Harold (Wet Machine Blog)
• Stuck in the broadband slow lane, by Bernhard Warner (Times Online, UK)
• Philadelphia revives citywide Wi-Fi project, by Jon Hurdle (Reuters)

Digital Intellectual Property

• Why P2P filesharing is good: the P2P manifesto, by Robin Good (masternewmedia.com)
• The effect of filesharing of record sales: an empirical analysis, by Felix Oberholzer and Kileman Strumpf (UNC)
• The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998: U.S. Copyright Office Summary (US Copyright Office)
• US college backs Google Book plan (BBC News)

Information Privacy and Censorship

• Google will censor new China service, by Chris Oliver & John Shinal (MarketWatch)
• Google move 'black day' for China (BBC News)
• Surveillance works both ways, by Kim Zetter (WIRED Magazine)
• Our domestic intelligence crisis, by Richard A. Posner (Washington Post)
• I.B.M. to put genetic data of workers off limits, by Steve Lohr (New York Times)
• Anonymity on a disc, by Quinn Norton (WIRED Magazine)
• EEF sues AT&T to stop illegal surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
• The protection of information in computer systems, by Jerome Saltzer and Michael Schroeder (University of Virginia)
• Internet Pornography Statistics, by David C. Bissette (HealthyMind)

Safety-critical software

• Computer system 'can land aircraft without air traffic controllers', by Elizabeth Day (Telegraph)
• The future of air traffic control - human operators and automation (The National Academies)
• System safety and accident models (Links to several papers by Nancy Leveson)
• Medical devices: the Therac-25, by Nancy Leveson (University of Washington)

Computer Security

• The rootkit of all evil, by Bruce Sterling (WIRED Magazine)
• Recognizing and recovering from rootkit attacks, by David O'Brien (Sys Admin Magazine)
• Hidden backdoors, Trojan horses and rootkit tools in a Windows environment, by Bartosz Bobkiewicz (WindowSecurity)
• New tool gives the scoop on snoops, by Andrew Brandt (PC World Magazine)

Identity Theft

• Thief swipes more than a laptop (AP/WIRED Magazine)
• LexisNexis data breach bigger than estimated, by Jonathan Krim (Washington Post)
• States scramble to protect data, by Jonathan Krim (Washington Post)
• ChoicePoint says it's sorry (AP/WIRED Magaine)
• Hackers get collegiate info, by David Cohn (WIRED Magaine)
• Security Breaches (A list compiled by Privacy Rights Clearinghouse and published in the Washington Post)

Machine Ethics

• Autonomous agents with norms, by Dignum F. (Artificial Intelligence and Law)
• Machine Ethics Consortium (Hartford University)
• On the morality of artificial agents, by Luciano Floridi and J.W. Sanders (Minds and Machines)
• Prolegomena to any future artificial moral agent, by Colin Allen, et al. (Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence)