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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/10/patriot-act-turns-ten/

The USA Patriot Act, the law granting the government vast surveillance powers that was adopted in the wake of September 11, turns a decade old Wednesday.

Patriot Act Turns 10, With No Signs of Retirement | Threat Level

Government Could Hide Existence of Records under FOIA Rule Proposal - ProPublica

By CNN's Jim Barnett

U.S. fails bioterrorism report card

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/10/gadgets-the-pentagon-made/

The cool voice assistant that runs on the iPhone 4S? Years ago, someone thought what Apple calls Siri would be a valuable tool for the military .

Gadgets the Pentagon Made — From the Microwave to the New iPhone | Danger Room

PDF of Casting a Wider Net study

Battling Internet Censorship Must Evolve, Study Says

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/11/science/11predict.html

Now social scientists are trying to mine the vast resources of the Internet — Web searches and Twitter messages, Facebook and blog posts, the digital location trails generated by billions of cellphones — to do the same thing.