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Are Police Building a Massive DNA Database?

Scott Lemieux, AlterNet. March 23, 2012.

A new law permits police to get genetic samples from almost anyone convicted of any crime in New York state.

Exposed: Massive New Spy Center Built to Track Your Emails and Phone Calls

Amy Goodman, Nermeen Shaikh, James Bamford, Democracy Now!. March 21, 2012.

An investigative reporter reveals that the NSA has established listening posts throughout the nation to collect and sift through billions of email messages and phone calls.

DNA Database of Men Who Pay for Sex? The Strange Push to Make Cops Collect DNA from Suspected Johns

Melissa Gira Grant, AlterNet. January 27, 2012.

Law enforcement and conservative campaigners want to threaten men who buy sex with the possibility of being marked for life in a government database.

Dangerous Caregivers Missing From Federal Database

Tracy Weber, Charles Ornstein, ProPublica. February 16, 2010.

The omissions highlight a glaring nationwide discrepancy between state and federal records of reckless health workers.

How to Crack the Pentagon Pundits' Code

Diane Farsetta, Center for Media and Democracy. August 12, 2008.

You can help plough through the 8,000 pages of internal documents on the Pentagon's covert pundit-propaganda program.

Every Year Brings Us Closer to 1984

Leonard Pitts Jr., Miami Herald. February 12, 2008.

In the beginning, the government just collected fingerprints -- now they want eye scans and a host of other biometrics. Where will it stop?

Texas Gov. Rick Perry's Dangerous Database

Jake Bernstein, Texas Observer. April 14, 2007.

Texas is amassing an unprecedented amount of information on its citizens.