Interesting look at how Google's record of search requests can be used to identify and track trends.
A survey of major hactivism projects, the loose-knit movement consisting of a handful of grass-roots organizations and small companies that are uniting politically minded programmers and technologically asute dissidents to combat Internet surveillance and censorship by governments around the globe.
Corrections officials are using GPS satellites to monitor 1,200 offenders nationwide as a condition of their parole or probation or as a form of house arrest. They are a small but growing fraction of the 150,000 offenders in the United States who are subject to more established forms of electronic supervision like home monitoring systems and mandatory telephone checks.
Around the world, countries are mobilizing to build independent satellite navigation networks, troubled that the Global Positioning System, the only functioning worldwide network, is run by the U.S. military and controlled by the government.