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Bozeman MT had a policy of requiring job applicants to provide their user/pwd to social media sites. After the story got picked up in the national media, they rescinded the policy, and are now investigating how and why they even had that policy. The following video is from when the story first broke:

Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra answers your questions from Facebook and the White House website about all things technology, information, and transparency. June 30, 2009.

The Home Office has quietly adopted a new plan to allow police across Britain routinely to hack into peoples personal computers without a warrant. The move, which follows a decision by the European Unions council of ministers in Brussels, has angered civil liberties groups and opposition MPs. They described it as a sinister extension of…

How deep packet inspection works and concerns about how this kind of technology can be used: