Sandra Fish | A funny thing happened to me at airport security this week: The full-body scanner appeared to detect my fake left breast.

Aaron Dykes & Alex Jones | Major ISPs across the globe are instituting ‘blacklists’ to selectively block alternative sites like Infowars.com and PrisonPlanet.com, even where such draconian policies have not been put in place by law.

CNet News | We’ve heard a lot about security issues with the iPhone, but the BlackBerry isn’t immune to threats from malicious apps.

National Post | Makers of natural-health products say they are bracing for widespread layoffs and millions of dollars in losses after Canada’s pharmacy regulators issued a surprise directive recently urging druggists to stop selling unlicensed natural remedies.

Raw Story | Five-dollar registration fee for persons planning to overthrow US government.

Clare Swinney | It is of no surprise that Infowars.com and Prisonplanet.com appear to have been selectively targeted

AdelaideNow | All Australian homes will have to undergo a mandatory energy-efficiency assessment – costing up to $1500 per property – before they can be sold or rented under new laws.

CNN | Since the testing is mandated by the government, it’s often done without the parents’ consent.

The Local.se | The European Court of Justice has told Sweden that it must implement a 2006 measure requiring telecom operators to store information about their customers’ phone calls and emails.

Emptywheel | The descent down the slippery slope picks up a little more speed.

Eyad J. | It seems politicians go by, but the policies are the same.

Greg Nikolettos | As sure as the sun rises, so Verichip keeps spawning and shape shifting to gain market acceptance as people from across the globe unite and reject the IBM seed-funded, Raytheon-manufactured Human Implantable microchip company.

Daily Mail | The introduction of full body scanners at Heathrow and Manchester airports has today caused outrage among civil liberty campaigners who say that they are an invasion of privacy.

CNet News | Anyone with an e-mail account likely knows that police can peek inside it if they have a paper search warrant.

Darlington Northern Echo | ONE of the region’s airports is on a collision course with the government over controversial body scanners that produce a naked image of passengers.

Telegraph | A couple of days after launching the much hyped iPad last week, Steve Jobs, Apple’s chief executive, hosted a question and answer session with the firm’s staff, during which he is understood to have criticised both Google and Adobe.

Raw Story | A Transportation Security Administration employee in Florida is behind bars this weekend after a 15-year-old girl claimed he groped her and asked if she would be his “sex slave,” according to published reports.

Reuters | A Polish priest has installed an electronic reader in his church for schoolchildren to leave their fingerprints in order to monitor their attendance at mass.

Stewart Dougherty | If the United States government were to nationalize (in other words, steal) every penny of private wealth accumulated by America’s citizens since the nation’s founding 235 years ago, the government would remain totally bankrupt.

BusinessWeek | Obama’s effort to increase retirement savings by requiring all businesses to offer automatic IRA accounts may face opposition from small companies.

Deutsche Welle | An American judge on Tuesday granted asylum to a German couple who wanted to homeschool their children.

Christian Science Monitor | Beyond campaigners who worry about supposed health risks or view them as the digital equivalent of a strip search, many European aviation-security experts remain unconvinced of the cost benefits.

EFF | A federal judge has dismissed Jewel v. NSA, a case from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on behalf of AT&T customers challenging the NSA’s mass surveillance of millions of ordinary Americans’ phone calls and emails.

The Gig Is Up | Lawyer mandated by the court to represent his client in the courthouse but he refused to be scanned by a body scanner under constitutional grounds.

Infowars | Here are a few homemade flyers to alert people to some of the headlines revealing the violation imposed by ‘naked’ body scanners, their relative ineffectiveness, the profit motive behind them and even their posed cancer risk.

NeitherCorp | Governments, regardless of their political structure or historical background, have always striven to not only control information, but also to gather it from the people by covert means.

UPI | Collaboration between the police departments and BAE Systems, maker of the drones, began in 2007.

Fox News | WHO ponders new global taxes on e-mails, alcohol, tobacco, airline travel and consumer bank transactions.

Paul Joseph Watson | Latest evidence that schools are now youth internment centers training kids to accept the prison planet.

Irish Times | Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern today told a Council of Ministers meeting in Toledo, Spain, he supported the introduction of full-body scanners to Irish airports.

Columbia Tribune | New technology introduced this morning by the Boone County Sheriff’s Department is a step forward for Mid-Missouri counties building criminal databases.

The Register | Google has been under particular pressure in Europe to stick a time limit on how long it hangs onto information that can be used to identity searchers.

The Independent | Unfortunately for Mr Chambers, the police didn’t see the funny side.

Daily Mail | Google has delayed the launch of its new mobile phone in China amid a diplomatic row with Beijing over censorship laws.

Washington Post | The FBI illegally collected more than 2,000 U.S. telephone call records between 2002 and 2006 by invoking terrorism emergencies that did not exist.

Reuters | Europe’s main security and human rights watchdog said on Monday that Turkey was blocking some 3,700 Internet sites for “arbitrary and political reasons” and urged reforms to show its commitment to freedom of expression.

Campaign for Liberty | Left-liberals, when discussing abortion on demand, often declare: “We don’t want government in the bedroom.” While I am not arguing about abortion rights, I will point out how the left really wants government in our homes.

Yahoo News | Many countries tackled their youth yobbery problems by introducing military national service.

AAP | The move comes after months of controversy surrounding the state government’s handling of child services.

Ken Craggs | The Council of Europe document ‘Internet Governance and critical Internet resources’ states (p.7) that “ . . . the Internet of Things refers to the seamless connection of devices, sensors, objects, rooms, machines, vehicles, etc, through fixed and wireless networks.

Columbia Missourian | The Mid-Missouri Internet Crimes Task Force will use the device to copy cell phone data — including phone numbers, contacts, pictures, videos, texts, call logs and even information the owner thinks has been deleted.

London Telegraph | US remote-controlled spy drones used over Afghanistan and Iraq are producing so much video intelligence that analysts are finding it more and more difficult to keep up with it.

CNN | A privacy group says the Transportation Security Administration is misleading the public with claims that full-body scanners at airports cannot store or send their graphic images.

WSJ | Protector uses GPS so that a child’s calls, texts, emails and photos are first routed to the parent’s phone. What do you think? Would you use Protector, or is it too invasive?

BBC | Snow must be removed from pavements outside homes within 24 hours of snowfall ending.

BBC | There are many parallels between a generation having to go short because of the war and one now being told to change its eating and purchasing habits by the government and environmental campaigners.

NBC Los Angeles | A TSA agent was arrested on January 3rd in Terminal One at LAX.

Counter Measures | From the beginning of 2010 every German employer must now submit detailed information on a monthly basis to the so-called ELENA database

NoWorldSystem | Widespread overuse of body scanners could ultimately lead to thousands of new cancer cases and deaths.

WNYT | It is illegal to home school without the permission of the state in New York.