The Electronic Privacy Information Center (http://www.epic.org), a privacy watchdog, offers links to “Practical Privacy Tools” such as anonymous remailers, data and file encryption programs, and even services to defeat the bogeyman of the Internet: the cookie. (BALTIMORE) The state must collect from a debt digital cctv collector as a private contractor fails to meet collection goals for overdue child support. A division of Lockheed Martin faces a penalty of more than 400- thousand dollars and could lose any extension of its three-year contract, for collecting about half its goal the latest year. The company blames outside factors. (TOWSON) Parents have used a video camera nicknamed a “NannyCam” to make sure babysitters stay in line, and the same strategy may have paid off for a Towson homeowner using what could be called a “HandymanCam.

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