As mentioned previously, New Jersey has bills in place that would eliminate anonymous online speech. The EFF has a recent news release on it.

The Washington Post is running the story about how two Homeland Security officers recently attempted to enforce obscenity laws in a Maryland library:

"Two uniformed men [Homeland Security] strolled into the main room of the Little Falls library in Bethesda one day last week and demanded the attention of all patrons using the computers. Then they made their announcement: The viewing of Internet pornography was forbidden. . . .

After the two men made their announcement, one of them challenged an Internet user’s choice of viewing material and asked him to step outside, according to a witness."

Pentagon Expanding Its Domestic Surveillance Activity [Washington Post]

"We are deputizing the military to spy on law-abiding Americans in America. This is a huge leap without even a [congressional] hearing,” Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.). . ."

Techweb.com reports that TiVo has filed a patent for a Personal Video Recorder that tracks Radio Frequency ID tags in your clothing or even under your skin.

“The remote control device would identify and link the viewer to the system using an ‘RFID tag that is attached to a key ring, necklace, watch, in his wallet, or even a sub dermal tag inserted somewhere in the user’s body.’”

In the future consumer electronics will monitor you by RFID tags and will be able to transfer that information over the Internet to the parent company which will then be able to use that information for consumer profiling. The government will also have access to that information under the Patriot Act or other similar laws.

Stay tuned for more information on Radio Frequency ID chips (RFID)…

FBI Papers Indicate Intelligence Violations

The FBI has conducted clandestine surveillance on some U.S. residents for as long as 18 months at a time without proper paperwork or oversight…

This article from the Washington Post describes how new evidence indicates that the FBI may have been illegally spying on American residents.