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Surveillance Self-Defense (SSD) exists to answer two main questions: What can the government legally do to spy on your computer data and communications? And what can you legally do to protect yourself against such spying?

Writers, pop stars, lawyers and politicians from across the party spectrum yesterday issued a call to arms. They joined the largest ever campaign across Britain to warn of the erosion of freedoms and the emergence of surveillance techniques

GovTrack.us is a tool for you to keep tabs on the U.S. Congress. Use our feeds or research pending and past legislation. GovTrack is a community & open source project.

Open-source knowledge base speeds discovery, research and networking with more than 110 best practice documents and a secure directory of participating government officials from over 450 cities, counties and US states.

Touted by politicians and industry as "green" energy, biofuels come with a high price tag.

Net Neutrality is the principle that consumers should be in control of what content, services and applications they use on the public Internet. It's a simple concept that has wide-ranging implications on how the Internet operates.

A call to action for all worldchanging people everywhere.

"Every week, a dozen or so times, your MP votes on changes to British law. This is their definitive exercise of power on your behalf. The Public Whip lets you see all their votes so you can hold them to account"