Daily Brew

Wired: Big Brother gets a database. The Justice Department is in the works of developing the motherload of organizing criminal information to be shared by the FBI, DEA, the ATF, the Bureau of Prisons, and the US Marshals Service, synergy a long time coming since the communication failures of law enforcement leading to and following 9/11. Right now the pilot project, known as OneDOJ is being tested in a few municipal police forces and will eventually house 3 million records on criminal convictions, investigative reports, and interrogation summaries, stuff that often includes unproven allegations, getting privacy activists a lil antsyy.

News.com: Enjoy voyeurism but not the overly salacious kind? Try this for entertainment: observing the websites people click on. AttenTV allows you to do just that. Download Attentron off the site and watch its users click away. Could be a good way to meet people on the web, "Hey, I visit cuddlypuppies.com five times a day too!"

News.com: Google-owned YouTube promised to put back a video they deleted of presidential candidate John McCain singing "bomb Iran" to the melody of the Beach Boy's popular song Barbara Ann. YouTube is calling the removal a "mistake," claiming it was flagged by users, removed, and then accidentally deleted. So this election season politicians need to learn to stop worrying and love the video phone.

ZDNet: First cell phones are used as listening devices and now radio antennas and receivers can take pictures of computer desktops, even through a series of walls and other barriers. Mark Kuhn, computer security researcher at Cambridge University, developed the spy-gear and it goes for around $2000. So secret office romances beware, your IM chats are fair game.

-Andrea Chalupa