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20 year old Santa Clara college student and American citizen Yasir Afifi found an FBI tracking device under his car. He showed the device to his roommates who posted a picture of the device online asking if it meant "the FBI is after us"? Two days later, Afifi - who is half-Egyptian - got a...

Here in the UK the goverment plan to tighten laws so to be able to 'snoop' on anyone without having to obtain a warrant first. One of the founding fathers of the web had this to say.... Personally I feel it makes the book '1984' seem niave...... :-# Reference: Web pioneer Sir Tim...

OKLAHOMA CITY — For a man who surprises prostitutes and their customers with a video camera to announce, "You're busted, buddy," Brian Bates is remarkably unscathed. Read Full Story: Link Removed

A man with a red Mohawk and gold painted finger and toe nails is accused of spraying Family Dollar employees with pepper spray when they tried to stop him from shoplifting, deputies said. Watch Video: Link Removed

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TAMPA — The tiny cameras were hidden in smoke detectors and motion sensors, placed in the bedrooms and bathrooms of a west Hillsborough apartment. Read Full Story: Link Removed due to 404 Error

IDG News Service - He was hired to fix their computers, but police say that Trevor Harwell instead installed spyware software that took candid photos of his clients in various states of undress. Harwell had been a Macintosh specialist with a Los Angeles-area home computer repair company...

ON TV:Area 51 Declassified premieres on the National Geographic Channel on Sunday at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT. Suspended upside down, a titanium A-12 spy-plane prototype is prepped for radar testing at Area 51 in the late 1950s. After a rash of declassifications, details of Cold War workings at the...

In the daring raid that killed Osama bin Laden, Navy Seals were likely outfitted with latest in high-tech weapons and gadgets; Fox News speculates on five key technologies that could have helped the highly trained members of Navy SEAL Team 6 successfully complete their mission including bomb...

Yahoo plans to extend the amount of time it retains records on what its users search for online, just two years after breaking from the other big Internet search engines and promising to delete such data promptly. The new policy brings the company in line with Google Inc., which dominates the...

Mr. Caesar, who escaped police custody in New York while handcuffed to a chair, has been caught. Red-faced police managed to track down and recapture Caesar after he broke out from the police station before questioning. He was said to have been recaptured while riding a bike with the...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Lying on his family room floor with assault weapons trained on him, shouts of "pedophile!" and "pornographer!" stinging like his fresh cuts and bruises, the Buffalo homeowner didn't need long to figure out the reason for the early morning wake-up call from a swarm of federal...

The Marin Humane Society is investigating allegations that a dog was fatally poisoned by alcohol and marijuana during an unsupervised juvenile party in Mill Valley. Tamalpais High School contacted authorities this week after picking up campus rumors about the dog's death at a large party in...

(PhysOrg.com) -- Lie detection is coming to a whole new level. Soon we will not have to rely on the work of individual agents to figure out who is just trying to get on a plane and who is a criminal mastermind in the making. Link Removed - Invalid URL Researchers at the University of...

More than 40 people were killed in Pakistan last week in a US drone attack near the Afghan border. The use of unmanned drones have always been controversial, but ex-CIA director Michael Hayden says they are winning the war. Ten years on from 9/11, al-Qaeda appears to be on the back foot. One...

Three men are in court after two allegedly secretly filmed their friend having sex with a woman, before threatening to release the footage if she complained. University of Westminster student George Iaponas, 24, met the victim via social networking site Facebook and she agreed to meet in...

A would-be robber who made a failed attempt to hold up a Jack in the Box restaurant was arrested when he returned to the same restaurant the next day, San Diego police said. The man walked in to the Jack in the Box on Wednesday and demanded cash from an employee, saying he had a gun. He had...

HERMINIE, Pa. — State police in Greensburg are investigating an unusual armed robbery at a Westmoreland County gas station. Trooper Stephen Limani said a man robbed the Buy 'n Fly in Herminie on Monday afternoon after wrapping himself in fabric to conceal his identity. "We're told he...