Securitymagazine.com | It’s all about the welfare of the children.

10news.com | City government cites crime as reason to stop people from trading the valuable metal.

Daily Mail | Traffic cameras have become governments’ commercial arm of the new police state

Politico | Homeland Security chief calling out Matt Drudge for suggesting she’s an ogre eager to invade the privacy of Americans.

NYT | Net firms are having difficulty enforcing “real name” systems

Dominion Post | A spy car intended to curb dangerous parking has instead netted more than $700,000 in fines.

AP | Undercover officers sent into minority neighborhoods as part of a human mapping program.

Jonathan Benson | A 43-year-old former TSA agent plead guilty to charges of aiding a drug smuggling ring.

TheAlexJonesChannel | Court ruling informs guitar company that it should move production to Madagascar.

MedPage Today | Creation of nationwide database to follow women who have had silicone-gel breast implants for at least a decade.

Jonathon M. Seidl | Gibson says the Lacey Act only applies if foreign law has been violated.

George Bennett | Don’t think of it as the federal government but as your “federal family.”

Butler Shaffer | Connecticut Governor Malloy’s characterizing Ron Paul as “an idiot” because of Ron’s factually-based critique of FEMA’s response — or lack thereof — to natural disasters.

LaMesa Patch | Shortly after, I began to have ringing ears and sleeplessness…

EFF | One of the world’s worst Internet law treaties is back on the agenda.

Mail Online | Letter said couple could receive a noise abatement notice and fine if there were any more complaints about their son.

Laurence Vance | It is Congress that will have to change things.

Wall Street Journal | Resoundingly overturned township’s plan to build a new $1.5 million civic office.

Reuters | Pentagon said it had pre-positioned 225 trucks loaded with equipment, food, water and generators at Fort Bragg in North Carolina.

PopSci | Following the violent kidnapping of a Mexican presidential candidate last year, some Mexicans are being implanted with RFID tracking chips.

L.A. Times | Facial recognition technology has become one of the newest tools in marketing.

TorrentFreak | IT department of a Gothenburg school investigated the issue of a virus which apparently came from a student’s computer.

Cryptogon | Good news? Maybe, a little. It would be better if we had amnesia affecting our knowledge of NSA cell phone tracking.

RT | The CIA’s much violated charter prohibits it from spying in the U.S.

London Guardian | Facebook and Twitter are preparing to face down government ministers over calls to ban people from social networks.

NY Daily News | Bloomberg wants to blanket the city with red light cameras.

Politico | The FCC commission axed more than 80 media industry rules.

USA Today | Data could be used in claims disputes by the insurer and others against you.

Salon | Aaron Swartz was arrested after allegedly downloading academic articles and making them available for free online.

Fox Business | Judge Andrew Napolitano and Jack Hunter comment on the recent Homeland Security videos.

The American Dream | If you think government spying now is bad, just wait until you see what is coming.

RT | US State Department providing $2 million for “Internet in a suitcase” to help dissidents circumvent censorship.

The Atlantic | Conventional wisdom holds that Perry will be a hawk whose views are acceptable to neocons and the inside-the-Beltway defense establishment.

Alex Newman | Obama sending even more CIA operatives to Mexico.

Politico | The 12-member supercommittee needs to find its $1.5 trillion in spending cuts from somewhere.

WSJ | As politicians call for more online controls after London and Norway, authoritarian states are watching.

SF Chronicle | 1st Amendment issues mount over cell shutdown

Federal News Radio | The NSA is on a hiring blitz, eyeing 3,000 new recruits over the next two years.

Gazettevirginian.com | Federal Department of Transportation would require farmers to get commercial drivers licenses.

AFP | Hair-thin electronic patch adheres to the skin like a temporary tattoo.

Softpedianews | At the center of this problem is the USA PATRIOT ACT.

Amy Thomson and Robert Hutton | The government is working with police, the intelligence services and companies.

Victor Rawls | The country is looking at a civil rights battle of a dimension and seriousness never seen before in history.

You Tube | You are free… to do as we tell you.

Mail Online | In what sounds like something out of George Orwell’s dystopia 1984, suspects can now be finger printed in the street.

The Hill | DHS’ seventh annual conference on cybersecurity began on Sunday in Nashville.

NBC Bay Area | At Google, don’t blame the technology when something goes wrong — blame the person behind the technology.

Cassandra Anderson | Smart Meters have no energy saving properties- their sole purpose is to change your behavior.

Boston Herald | Military helicopters flying low over the city last night were part of an ongoing training exercise, officials said.

Reuters | Security experts have discovered the biggest series of cyber attacks to date.