Anonymity and Privacy Should Not Add Up to Prison Time

"Under current rules, a criminal defendant can get additional time added to a prison sentence if he used "sophisticated means" to commit the offense. In its testimony before the commission, EFF will argue that sentencing courts should not assume that using proxies — technologies that can anonymize users or mask their location — is a mark of sophistication. In fact, proxies are widely employed by corporate IT departments and public libraries and, like many computer applications, can be used with little or no knowledge on the part of the user.
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Google’s Behavioral Ad Targeting: How to Reclaim Control

"The advertising system, announced at the Official Google Blog on Wednesday, increases Google’s level of advertising customization. The company’s AdSense network (which generates the ads within Google Search, Gmail, and other Google properties) had already been selecting ads based on your current activity: If you searched for "video card," for example, the ads on the right would be related to computer components. Now, however, the system will delve deeper, using data from the past in addition to the present.
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Tor anonymous network now has zero known bugs

"The developers of Tor the internet anonymisation system, have announced that thanks to a Coverity analysis, they have removed a number of bugs and vulnerabilities. Coverity perform source code analysis of C, C++ and Java and in September 2008, found 171 problems in the Tor code base. By December 2008, the Tor developers had got the count down to 15 issues, and have now managed to reduce the bug count to 0.
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Understanding Search Engine Privacy and How to prevent Snooping Part I

Search engines keep records of every search, ever made in a way that can be traced to individuals. They retain users’ search data -anonymized or not- to eternity. They put web cookies on their computers that makes it possible to match search queries to their computer address, their name…if they are logged in…and possibly more depending on how much information they have shared with the particular search engine.
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How Internet Censorship Works

"One of the early nicknames for the Internet was the "information superhighway" because it was supposed to provide the average person with fast access to a practically limitless amount of data. For many users, that’s exactly what accessing the Internet is like. For others, it’s as if the information superhighway has some major roadblocks in the form of Internet censorship.
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The Anonymity Experiment

"During a week of attempting to cloak every aspect of daily life, our correspondent found that in an information age, leaving no trace is nearly impossible….
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