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By Kay Steiger Rawstory

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the Department of Education jointlyreleased a report to Congress on Friday that finds that the private student loan market has exploded in recent years to $150 billion in outstanding loans, many of which are risky and come with few borrower protections. (more…)

The United States is facing fresh embarrassment over its use of ‘black’ detention sites after the European Court of Human Rights ordered Poland to hand over secret documents about its role in the War on Terror (more…)

Is the FBI attaching GPS devices to cars, boats and planes and tracking them without a warrant? Even in the wake of the Supreme Court’s January decision in United States v. Jones, holding that attaching a GPS device to a car is covered by the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures, we don’t know for certain. (more…)

Dan De Luce (AFP)

FORT MEADE, Maryland – Evidence showing the mistreatment of WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning at a military brig should “shock the conscience” of the court, his lawyer said Thursday. (more…)

John Pilger www.johnpilger.com

This is a story of two letters and two Britains. The first letter was written by Sebastian Coe, the former athlete who chairs the London Olympics Organising Committee. He is now called Lord Coe. (more…)

Guardian U.K.

Security devices that invade our privacy are about to take a giant leap forward with a scanner that can tell what you had for breakfast from 50 metres away (more…)

Guardian U.K.

In a victory for Republicans, the federal government has agreed to let Florida use a law enforcement database to challenge people’s right to vote if they are suspected of not being US citizens. (more…)

The New York Times

Apple has not been taken over by xenophobes. The discrimination is one result of trying to enforce flawed and haphazard United States export controls against countries, like Iran, that are under sanctions. Retail employees are left to interpret and implement federal policy, and racial profiling results. (more…)