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Manchester journo gets first ID card - late

Nearly scuppered by potatoes, Chadderton

Gov confirms plans for Sky box in charge of your house

Smart meters remote-control spy boxes by 2020

Wikipedia to disclose user's IP address in blackmail case

Complies with court order to unmask suspect Wikifiddler

EDS HP staff vote to strike

Break out the braziers

Govt promises unemployed free laptops, net access, websites

Virtual Jobcentres for virtual jobs?

McKinnon team granted extra week to file extradition appeal

One more one more time

Navy's £1bn+ destroyers set to remain unarmed for years

Ex-British miracle missiles in new test FAIL

Millions of mobiles blocked by Indian authorities

No ID, no call

Nokia sues LCD makers over price-fixing

Mirrors AT&T suit

Tories flash leaked UK.gov IT strategy

They want to know what you think. Yes, specialmost you

UK.gov may abolish edited electoral roll

Six options for register reform published

Vetting database is mighty maths mess

The sum of all incompetence?

MPs slap ICO for bad language

Sort your sh*t out, you obtuse f*cks

Government outlines five year IT strategy

Try sticking to the next five months, lads

Consumer group preps legal challenge to Facebook terms

Getting poked all the way from Norway

EU to approve more banking data for US spooks

Win for Washington on private info

Gov targets boozers as Manc ID card scheme launches

Gis yer face to get off your face innit

EU waits for wise men to deliver digi-books plan

Culture ministers go away for a manger

Notts County Council sprays £82k on PC smut trawl

Funding gap plugging boob

Border agency to start fingerprint checks

Put your hands up for Detroit Dover

Cartoon smut law to make life sucky for Olympic organisers

Internet + iffy logo = Ha ha!

Head-cam video used to OK Arkansas cop kill

Vid 'This will make for more polite encounters with police'

India plans its own net snoop system

Indian IMP pilot for mid-2010

Pentagon world-sim tool making good progress, say profs

Computer suggests a savage bombing campaign, Mr President

McKinnon family 'devastated' by Home Sec's latest knock-back

Options running out for 'suicidal' Pentagon hacker

IPPR calls for National Policing Agency

Cop IT cops it

EU agency runs rule over ID cards for online banking logins

What could possibly go wrong?

Aus gov dredges up cuter panic-button for kids online

Flipper fights predatory paedophiles

Kent Police exceeded powers in too-tall photographer case

'Because we can' is not proper grounds for an arrest

Italian prosecutors seek jail time for Google execs

Mountain View in hot water over 'defamation' video

US Military cyber forces on the defensive in network battle

Operation Screaming Whimpering Fist

Police Intelligence may be a thing of the past

*Insert your own joke here.*

UK.gov rejects calls to open up on ContactPoint security

Report on child database kept under wraps

RIPA III: A legislative turkey comes home to roost

Comment The tragic consequences of anti-crypto law

Advertisers say new cookie law met by browser settings

Implied consent innit

MS unleashes legal attack dogs to lick up COFEE spill

Cryptonomicon

Manchester united against ID cards, ID minister finds

All the supporters live somewhere else apparently

Spain warned on filesharing cut-offs

Slow down there José

UK jails schizophrenic for refusal to decrypt files

Exclusive Terror squad arrest over model rocket

Gov advisers slate Home Office over innocents' DNA retention

Arrests made just to collar DNA

Government ICT spending heads for plateau

Evening out

DVLA doubles annual IT spend

IBM can buy itself a Bentley