Last week, the ACLU filed a welcome additional challenge to the NSA’s warrantless Internet backbone surveillance (aka “Upstream” surveillance) on…
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Government agencies sure love their black markers. For transparency activists, receiving overly redacted documents is a guilty pleasure. Sure, we’d…
The Supreme Court took a major step in cutting back on abstract software patents last June when it issued its…
17 March 2015 – The United Nations Special Adviser on Yemen, Jamal Benomar, welcomed the lifting of the house arrest…
Last year, the current President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Junker, declared that his number one priority was to “create…
When was the last time you can remember your city government asking for feedback on privacy? What about the last…
14 March 2015 – As the Syrian conflict enters its fifth year, it is shameful that even the basic demand…
EFF is encouraging Canadians to join together tomorrow for a day of action against a dangerous bill that’s navigating through the Canadian legislature and…
13 March 2015 – The United Nations mission in Haiti welcomed today the formal proposal of a calendar for elections…
Nigerian rapper, Williams Oriorha otherwise popularly known as 2Shotz, is now a father. The rapper welcomed his first child, a…
Today, the FCC published its new order [PDF] on net neutrality. As promised, the rules start by putting net neutrality…
Yesterday, a jury found that the 2013 song “Blurred Lines” was an infringement of Marvin Gaye’s “Got to Give It…
11 March 2015 – Wrapping up a three-day visit to Syria, the Commissioner-General of the United Nations agency mandated to…
Apple, that’s who. Or Microsoft, or any of the other vendors whose products US government contractors have successfully exploited according…
Ugly facts often make bad law. But it’s important to not let opinions about the specific defendants that appear in…
7 March 2015 – and bulldozing of the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud and the Director General of the UN…
Sen. Ron Wyden and Sen. Orrin Hatch are now in a stand-off over a bill that would put secretive trade…
4 March 2015 – In eradicating sexual violence related to Colombia’s internal armed conflict, the main challenge now is translating…
It seems the government doesn’t know where it stands when it comes to national security letters (NSLs). National security letters…
5 March 2015 – The living conditions of nearly 2 million Palestinians residing in the Gaza Strip have been undermined…