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“Global warming is a crime for which we are all guilty, from our cars, our homes and our workplaces.”

Kiefer Sutherland, who plays Jack Bauer in the Fox TV show 24, on how next season’s finale will be carbon neutral (The Independent, London, 6 August)

“It is a visual reminder of how our private spaces are really shrinking. Computers have very long memories.”

Pam Dixon, of the World Privacy Forum, on how Google Maps is expanding its Street View photos to southern California, including images of people clear enough to identify them (Los Angeles Times, 7 August)

“The keyboard is as familiar to you as your…

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