Police departments across the country are feeling the need to upgrade their forces' weaponry with military grade firearms.
The Conservative party in Britain will scrap Tony Blair's planned compulsory ID card scheme if it wins the next election, according to a statement by Shadow Home Secretary David Davis.
Under a European Union directive tabled this week, anyone found denying or even questioning the official history of the Holocaust or recent conflicts in Africa and the Balkans could be punished with up to three years in jail.
The Texas State Legislature has introduced a bill that will fine parents $500 if they miss or choose not to attend a meeting with their child's teacher.
In yet another blow to the Chinese people's online liberty, the PRC's Paramount Leader Hu Jintao has vowed to "purify" the Internet.
California Assemblywoman Sally Lieber plans to give California parents a lesson in parenting -- whether they like it or not. Next week, she will introduce a bill that will outlaw the spanking of children under four by their parents, a move that has sparked a flurry of both criticism and support in California and beyond.
A recent study of social attitudes in Britain has discovered that support for civil liberties is on the wane, with the majority of the population seeing infringements on their rights as a reasonable price for apparent security.
Beginning this summer, European travellers to the U.S. will face even more affronts to their civil liberties when new regulations designed to combat terrorism come into effect. "This must be the Keystone Cops school of border control."
The UK Press Complaints Commission, a regulatory body for the newspaper and magazine industry, has called for a "voluntary code of conduct" for blogs similar to the one adhered to by the mainstream press.
In a trial measure rolled out this week, British police gained the power to take the fingerprints of members of the public while out on patrol, cross-referencing the data against a national database containing 6.5 million fingerprints.
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