BBC | The number of children referred into care in England has hit a record high

Cecilia Kang | New lawsuit comes after U.S., European lawmakers say the firm is overstepping privacy rights

UPI | Federation Aviation Administration said up to 30,000 drones could be in airspace shared with airliners carrying passengers.

Saman Mohammadi | To achieve a great political, moral victory for mankind, we must drop the term “conspiracy theory”

AP | Judge is asking potential jurors what they think about the use of confidential informants.

Telegraph | Junior health minister said one of the key goals was to “remove significant number of units of alcohol from the UK market.”

SF Gate | California has the most expensive red-light camera tickets in the world.

YouTube | BBC pull no punches when it comes to enforcing strict censorship over its airwaves

Linda Lewis | Government’s flyer designates people as suspicious if they “always pay cash” at an internet café.

J. D. Heyes | The more some people associated with passage of ACTA learn about its onerous privacy-stealing provisions, the less they want anything to do with it.

Mail Online | Released 15-minute tape of conference call last month about tracking and prosecuting group’s members.

Press TV | List jumped from about 10,000 known or suspected terrorists one year ago to about 21,000.

You Tube | The Onion’s satire piece underscores the fact that elections have, in reality, been hijacked.

Karen De Coster | The federal public school system has become a security garrison with satellite detainment facilities.

ComputerWorld | But one hosting company denies it has plans to do so.

Washington Post | FDA monitored personal e-mails of own scientists and doctors who were whistleblowers

Guardian | China loves it. Now Thai gov’t is first to publicly endorse Twitter’s new country-specific censorship of content

Corbett Report | In recent weeks the general public has mobilized to face US legislative threats to Internet freedoms.

London Independent | Twitter is facing a backlash from its users after the website said it had the technology to censor tweets.

Nile Bowie | In the wake of a public outcry against internet regulation bills such as SOPA and PIPA, representatives of the EU have signed a new and far more threatening legislation.

Guardian | Among those who didn’t do 2011 census were ‘conscientious objectors’ to Lockheed Martin involvement

Sci-Tech Today | Poland’s support for the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA, has sparked days of Internet protests.

UPI | Egypt fell 39 places during the past year.

Washington Post | Corporate monster Google will soon know far more about who you are, what you do on the Web

Pete Kofod | When the State ceases to recognize limits on its authority, it is displaying a core characteristic of fascism.

Heather Callaghan | Far from dead, both SOPA and PIPA are set to be reformulated in February

Washington Post | Thomas cited his belief that “the Federal government has grown out of control, threatening the Rights, Liberties and Property of the People.”

Aaron Dykes | In East Orange, New Jersey, those suspected of future criminal activity can be marked with flashy, hi-tech police surveillance equipment.

AP/Washington Post | Small victory for civil liberty advocates, as Supreme Court backs 4th Ammendment right

Sartre | The indisputable evidence that civilization is regressing at lightening speed is all around us

RT | American legislators will delay action on similar proposals until the matter is more widely agreed upon

Paul Kane | The only ‘steak holders’ in PIPA and SOPA are Hollywood and their paid-for Congress

Washington Post | Group of firms are shutting down their own popular Web sites for a day to expose SOPA

Mail Online | Expensive gov’t smart meter plan will give control to energy giants, allowing them to cut you off via click of a mouse

The Independent | Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales hopes sites from Google to Twitter will join his SOPA protest

NY Post | Controversial electronic monitors that allow school officials to track their physical activity around the clock.

ABC News | A private California-based company has compiled a database bulging with more than 550 million license-plate records.

New American | It is little wonder that the freedom of the press and speech are next on the government guillotine.

Express | British schools are being force-fed material from the EU, shaping minds of next generation

Michael Rigley | Information technology has become a ubiquitous presence.

TPM | Architects and supporters of these draconian bills have finally begun tiptoeing back.

Brandon Turbeville | India realizing its dream of a ‘cashless society’, where citizens pay with a fingerprint

Federal News Radio | Cybersecurity bill could give DHS the ability to take “any lawful action” against contractors if their systems are under attack.

Leila Fadel | Muslim Brotherhood to reassure military that they will not end up on trial like their former boss, Hosni Mubarak.

CBS Pittsburgh | Packed with circuits, sensors and wireless technology, new lenses are designed to keep an eye on your health.

You Tube | OWS activist talks about the 27 hours she spent in police custody for protesting the NDAA at Grand Central Station.

Reuters | DHS does regular monitoring of “publicly available online forums, blogs, public websites and message boards.”

The National Turk | Global activists with the online collective Anonymous have proposed a national day of action against the controversial legislation to occur within next month.

Infowars.com | It really is amazing Fox News allows this sort of unvarnished truth to be broadcast over their propaganda venue.

RT | Hacks are now being tracked by the DHS’s National Operations Center (NOC)’s Media Monitoring Initiative