U.S. Army Intelligence Analyst Spc. Bradley Manning who has already been charged in the leaking of a classified military video, and who is the government's prime suspect in the leaking of some 90,000 classified military documents to Wikileaks, is back in the United States.

CNN reported today (7/30) that Manning has been transferred from Kuwait where he's been in custody for nearly two months, to Quantico, Virginia.

In related news, on Thursday Defense Secretary Robert Gates asked the FBI to help Pentagon authorities investigate the Wikileaks case.

On Thursday the Washington Post (subscription) was first to report about the Obama administration's desire to make it easier for the FBI to gain access to "an individual's Internet activity without a court order if agents deem the information relevant to a terrorism or intelligence investigation."

In short, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has asked Congress to make a "clarification" about the type of information the FBI can demand from a company via a National Security Letter (NSL). The DOJ wants to add the words "electronic communication transactional records" to the list of items an NSL can be applied to. The Post reports that government lawyers define this type of information as "addresses to which an Internet user sends e-mail; the times and dates e-mail was sent and received; and possibly a user's browser history."

Of course, the Obama administration's request is sending up a lot of red flags over privacy and data security. The Electronic Frontier Foundation was one of the first groups to jump on the Post story yesterday.

The TSA this week released its MyTSA mobile web app and an iPhone app " to help [air] travelers get the information they might need quickly and easily."

The applications give users information on airport status, security line wait times, what can and cannot be brought on a commercial airliner, and information about liquids rules, IDs, and tips for military travelers, travelers with children and those with special needs.

MyTSA is available at www.tsa.gov/mobile. And you can download the iPhone app through Apple's iTunes.

Security researcher Ron Bowes has harvested the public profiles of some 100 million Facebook members who did not choose to have their information hidden from search engines, and has made the data available for download.

This is not illegal and does not constitute a breach of Facebook security. However, Bowes said that one of the things his experiment does demonstrate is "if any searchable user has friends that are non-searchable, those friends just opted into being searched, like it or not!"

An app distributed by Google's Android Market has been stealing user data and sending it to a server in China, according to security researchers from mobile security firm Lookout.

VentureBeat was first to report this significant security vulnerability in the Jackeey Wallpaper app that is marketed as software that allows the user to alter their mobile phone's wallpaper, which it does do, but it also "collects your browsing history, text messages, your phone's SIM card number, subscriber identification, and even your voicemail password", and then sends it to a Chinese server.

It's estimated that the offending app has been downloaded 1.1 million to 4.6 million times.

Police in the Philippines on Tuesday arrested the lone suspect in the murders of three expatriates and six Filipinos.

Last weekend police had already suspected Mark Dizon, 28, was their man, but then two witnesses identified him through his Facebook profile. Police also discovered from Dizon's Facebook page that he once dated a daughter of one of the victims.

Police used Dizon's father to set-up a sting in which Dizon thought he was meeting to join a Philippine rebel communist group in order to avoid arrest.