Mark-of-the-beast tag for school kids.

"Plaintiff's objection to wearing the Smart ID badge without a chip is clearly a secular choice, rather than a religious concern....

"Treating OWS as 'potential criminal and terrorist threat' was exactly the right thing to do."

"No one knew whether these protests were going to stay peaceful or not. OWS certainly wanted it to turn into a phenomenon of national c...

The notion that technology is the reason the murder rate has fallen by half.

"Are gun owners now going to be stigmatized like sex offenders?"

Asks TalkLeft. I think it's an attempt at intimidation. I wonder if any of those whose addresses were published are immediate family mem...

"Secret Service: We do not consent to our store being searched. It’s not that there’s anything illegal in here..."

"... but we just employ several Colombian prostitutes and we don’t want to tempt you guys." Sign in the window of a store called R...

"A challenge to a federal law that authorized intercepting international communications involving Americans appeared to face an uphill climb at the Supreme Court..."

"... on Monday, but not one quite as steep as many had anticipated," observes Adam Liptak at the NYT . The question in the case wa...

Camille Paglia, who voted for Obama in '08, delivers a fine rant about why she's not voting for him this time.

She's interviewed on video here , by Glenn Reynolds. Most of the interview is about art in America and her new book "Glittering Ima...

"Austrian artist... built an installation at a Vienna café that allowed men in the adjacent restroom to see the inside of the ladies room through a two-way mirror."

Alexander Riegler was simply commenting on our "age of social media and omnipresent video surveillance," the “voyeurism and surve...

Facebook is watching you.

It can recognize you when you walk into a store. We have uploaded the information that makes this surveillance possible.

Motivated by "the absurdity" of the TSA trying to see him naked via machine, John E. Brennan got real-flesh naked... and arrested... and prosecuted.

And acquitted... by an Oregon state judge: Citing a 1985 state appeals court ruling stating that nudity laws don't apply in cases of pro...

"Austrian Politician Photographed Having Sex In Forest By Hidden Wildlife Camera."

Oh, no! Have you ever considered this possibility when you were having sex in the forest? IN THE COMMENTS: AprilApple points to the part of ...

"Have you noticed that the left’s nightmare is a small town where everybody sees and comments on whatever you do..."

"... but they try to turn every place into a small town where everybody sees and comments on whatever you do?" ADDED: And they lov...

"We have seen the power of a single mailer disclosing the voting behavior of oneself and one’s neighbors."

"Does this effect persist over time, in the form of newly created voting habit?" asks an academic study ( PDF ) linked by Professo...

"The government will be able to monitor the calls, emails, texts and website visits of everyone..."

"... in the UK under new legislation set to be announced soon. Internet firms will be required to give intelligence agency GCHQ access ...

"Voters Are Gung-Ho for Use of Drones But Not Over the United States."

76% favor the use of drones to kill terrorists, but when asked about using drones for surveillance — not even killing — only 9% are drone-fr...

"The Pentagon already includes unmanned drone attacks in its arsenal."

"Next up: housefly-sized surveillance craft, shape-changing 'chemical robots,' and tracking agents sprayed from the sky." ...

"Rebekah Brooks has been arrested..."

"... by police investigating allegations of phone hacking by the News of the World and allegations that police officers were bribed to ...

The artist who wanted to document that expression people get on their face when they interact with a computer.

The Secret Service got involved. The photographs: here . Are you disturbed by the way the human being looks when he is interfacing with the ...

"People who fill out so-called bubble forms — known to anyone who’s taken a standardized test — use distinctive pencil strokes that can later be used to identify them..."

"... Princeton University computer scientists have found. The techniques they developed could be used to catch cheaters on tests, the r...

"If an iPhone were held up and used to film during a concert infra-red sensors would detect it."

"These sensors would then contact the iPhone and automatically disable its camera function." This will only be used to keep concer...