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adc_bbrother.article_title[0] = 'Business Week: Utah and Others Slap a (Gov't Run) Prying Eye' ;
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adc_bbrother.article_url[0] = 'http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/feb2004/tc2004026_9706_tc073.htm';
adc_bbrother.article_summary[0] = 'Of the 13 states that signed up for the MATRIX law-enforcement database, better than half have quit. Even in a time of terror, privacy is trumping panic...';
adc_bbrother.article_title[1] = 'Sun Sentinel: Few Legal Limits on Video Recordings' ;
adc_bbrother.article_date[1] = 1;
adc_bbrother.article_url[1] = 'http://www.tcpalm.com/tcp/palm_beach_news/article/0,1651,TCP_1020_2637498,00.html';
adc_bbrother.article_summary[1] = 'More than at any time in our history, we're living under surveillance.  The car wash security camera that captured the abduction of 11-year-old Carlie Brucia in Sarasota County this week is typical of the video surveillance systems that sweep across the s...';
adc_bbrother.article_title[2] = 'WP: 'Big Brother,' the Play, Comes to Capitol Hill' ;
adc_bbrother.article_date[2] = 1;
adc_bbrother.article_url[2] = 'http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20614-2004Feb6.html';
adc_bbrother.article_summary[2] = 'Related with refreshing directness in the claustrophobic confines of a black-box theater on Capitol Hill, the tale of a minor apparatchik's fall into totalitarian hell does not feel like stale agitprop....';
adc_bbrother.article_title[3] = 'Guardian: Feds Win Right to War Protesters' Records' ;
adc_bbrother.article_date[3] = 0;
adc_bbrother.article_url[3] = 'http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-3720969,00.html';
adc_bbrother.article_summary[3] = 'DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - In what may be the first subpoena of its kind in decades, a federal judge has ordered a university to turn over records about a gathering of anti-war activists....';
adc_bbrother.article_title[4] = 'Wired: Your Driver's Licence Please (If You Want to Eat Here)' ;
adc_bbrother.article_date[4] = 0;
adc_bbrother.article_url[4] = 'http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,62182,00.html';
adc_bbrother.article_summary[4] = 'A patron walks into a bar and orders a drink. The bartender asks to see some ID. Without asking permission, the barkeep swipes the driver's license through a card reader and the device flashes a green light approving the order....';
adc_bbrother.article_title[5] = 'WP: Hatfill Lawyers Given the Go Ahead by Judge' ;
adc_bbrother.article_date[5] = 0;
adc_bbrother.article_url[5] = 'http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20619-2004Feb6.html';
adc_bbrother.article_summary[5] = 'Attorneys for former Army scientist Steven J. Hatfill can move forward with efforts to determine whether federal officials improperly leaked information tying him to the probe of anthrax-laced mailings in 2001, a federal judge ruled yesterday....';
adc_bbrother.article_title[6] = 'Bend: Smith Seeks Hearings on Gov't Access to Consumer Info' ;
adc_bbrother.article_date[6] = 0;
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adc_bbrother.article_summary[6] = 'February 6 - WASHINGTON - Sen. Gordon Smith, R-Ore., has asked Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John McCain, R-Ariz., to hold a hearing to investigate privacy issues surrounding the sharing of consumer information with federal agencies....';
adc_bbrother.article_title[7] = 'NYT: Politics & the Patriot Act, Origins Proposed Under Clinton' ;
adc_bbrother.article_date[7] = 0;
adc_bbrother.article_url[7] = 'http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/06/opinion/06ROSE.html?ex=1076734800&en=e07a0211651ce3d0&ei=5062';
adc_bbrother.article_summary[7] = 'Like everything else in election season, the politics of national security have become badly polarized. When a federal judge in California last month struck down part of the Patriot Act, liberals cheered the decision and conservatives denounced it. When P...';
adc_bbrother.article_title[8] = 'Telegraph: Crying Out for a Normal Life in Russia' ;
adc_bbrother.article_date[8] = 0;
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adc_bbrother.article_summary[8] = 'Andrew Meier spent five years as Time's correspondent in Moscow, from 1996 to 2001. Five years: not, perhaps, a lifetime anywhere else, but it is a mysterious fact that five years in Russia these days is the equivalent of 20 in Western Europe. Perhaps it...';
adc_bbrother.article_title[9] = 'Cornell Sun: Reactions to the Patriot Act' ;
adc_bbrother.article_date[9] = 0;
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adc_bbrother.article_summary[9] = 'The fate of the Patriot Act is currently at stake. On Jan. 23, a federal court declared part of the Act unconstitutional. A counter act modifying the Patriot Act is now making its way through Congress, and President George W. Bush is faced with having som...';
adc_bbrother.article_title[10] = 'WP: 9/11 Notwithstanding, NYC Passes Anti-Patriot Act Resolution' ;
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adc_bbrother.article_url[10] = 'http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13970-2004Feb4.html';
adc_bbrother.article_summary[10] = 'NEW YORK, Feb. 4 -- New York City, site of the country's most horrific terrorist attack, Wednesday became the latest in a long list of cities and towns that have formally opposed the expanded investigatory powers granted to law enforcement agencies under...';
adc_bbrother.article_title[11] = 'Wired: Probe into Hand Over of Airline Data Spins its Wheels' ;
adc_bbrother.article_date[11] = 0;
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adc_bbrother.article_summary[11] = 'When the government wanted millions of passenger records to test antiterrorism data-mining projects, it simply asked for and received the data from JetBlue Airlines and Northwest Airlines, which were both eager to help out....';
adc_bbrother.article_title[12] = 'Southern Illinoisman: Carbondale Votes to Amend the Patriot Act' ;
adc_bbrother.article_date[12] = 0;
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adc_bbrother.article_summary[12] = 'CARBONDALE -- A standing room only audience crowded into the Carbondale Civic Center to hear the Carbondale City Council agree to pass a resolution asking the federal government to amend and revise certain provisions in the USA Patriot Act....';
adc_bbrother.article_title[13] = 'VOA: Democracy Activists' Contradictions on Cuba & China' ;
adc_bbrother.article_date[13] = 0;
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adc_bbrother.article_summary[13] = 'Hundreds of democracy activists from around the world are meeting in Durban, South Africa, for the third assembly of the World Democracy Movement. They agree on the need to strengthen and build democracy worldwide, but they often disagree on exactly what...';
adc_bbrother.article_title[14] = 'FCW: CAPPS II Slated for $60 Million in 2005 in Bush Budget' ;
adc_bbrother.article_date[14] = 0;
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adc_bbrother.article_summary[14] = 'In the administration's fiscal 2005 budget request, the Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System (CAPPS) II is slated to receive $60 million in 2005 funding, an increase of $15 million over requested 2004 levels....';
adc_bbrother.article_title[15] = 'NYT: Hardliners Refuse to Budge, Political Chaos Coming to Iran' ;
adc_bbrother.article_date[15] = 0;
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adc_bbrother.article_summary[15] = 'The meeting had been seen as a last-ditch effort to prevent the country from falling into political chaos.  The person said the ayatollah refused to agree to any delay in parliamentary elections scheduled for Feb. 20....';
adc_bbrother.article_title[16] = 'NYT Editorial: Reformers' End Game in Iran?' ;
adc_bbrother.article_date[16] = 0;
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adc_bbrother.article_summary[16] = 'Nearly seven years ago, Mohammad Khatami won an upset presidential election over the candidate favored by conservative mullahs, electrifying an Iranian population fed up with almost two decades of clerical dictatorship....';
adc_bbrother.article_title[17] = 'Ithaca Journal: Panel Pounds, Defends Patriot Act' ;
adc_bbrother.article_date[17] = 0;
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adc_bbrother.article_summary[17] = 'But Gewanter called the "secret judges" that sit on the "secret court," the FISA court, a "rubber stamp" for governmental surveillance of individuals....';
adc_bbrother.article_title[18] = 'Wired: Mood Ring Measured in Megahertz' ;
adc_bbrother.article_date[18] = 0;
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adc_bbrother.article_summary[18] = 'Your computer -- that auxiliary brain that lives outside your skull -- soon may be issuing public updates on what's happening inside your body....';
adc_bbrother.article_title[19] = 'NYT: More Than One Third of Iran's Parliament Resigns' ;
adc_bbrother.article_date[19] = 0;
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adc_bbrother.article_summary[19] = 'TEHRAN, Feb. 1 — More than one-third of Iran's Parliament resigned today to protest a sweeping ban on candidates running in the parliamentary election later this month....';
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