California State Sen. Monning (D-Carmel) has introduced legislation intended to protect Californians’ privacy rights behind the wheel. We have not yet…
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Two Hearings This Week: Appeal of Andrew “weev” Auernheimer CFAA Conviction in Philadelphia; License Plate Reader Records Case in Los…
Over the last year, thousands of pages of sensitive documents outlining the government’s intelligence practices have landed on our desktops.…
Sunshine Week is often a time for transparency advocates to collectively lament about government secrecy and institutional resistance to accountability.…
The House Judiciary Committee heard testimony Thursday on a law that underpins the Internet as we know it today: the…
Many problems with the patent system—from the explosion in patent trolling to the wasteful smartphone wars—can be traced to the…
If you’re as much a transparency geek as we are, then you want the whole world to feel the radiation…
Monday marks the second day of “Sunshine Week”—a week to focus on the importance of open government and how to…
Sunshine Week starts today. What better way to kick it off than sharing this astute quote from phone phreak Phil…
Russia’s government has escalated its use of its Internet censorship law to target news sites, bloggers, and politicians under the…
EFF Represents Computer Scientists in Explaining Why “It Is Not Just Metadata”San Francisco – Representing a large group of top…
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) released its annual “Enemies of the Internet” index this week—a ranking first launched in 2006 intended…
Senator Dianne Feinstein—who traditionally is a stalwart defender of the intelligence community—came out swinging against them this week. While on…
Getty Images—among the world’s largest providers of stock and editorial photos—has announced a major change to the way it is…
Last week, the federal government finally dismissed 11 controversial counts from its overzealous prosecution of journalist Barrett Brown. These counts…
This past Monday, the Human Rights Committee commenced its one hundredth and tenth session in Geneva from March 10-28. During…
One of the two cases against satellite TV company DISH Network settled last week, with Disney ending its quest to…
As Facebook turned ten years old last month, a legal case it brought against Power Ventures almost six years ago…
The campaign for open access to publicly funded research was going in the right direction: the White House issued a…