DMCA Provision Violates Author’s First Amendment Right to Publish Research About Computer Security Washington, D.C.—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) asked a court Thursday for an order that would prevent the government from prosecuting its client, security researcher Matthew Green, for… Read More ›
Archive for September 2016
Report: Donald Trump Violated US Embargo on Cuba in 1990s Even as He Called Castro a Brutal Dictator
A new investigation reveals Donald Trump’s businesses violated the U.S. embargo on Cuba and secretly did business there in the late 1990s and then tried to cover it up. The investigation draws on internal company documents showing Trump’s company, then… Read More ›
Medea Benjamin: If Americans Can Sue Saudis over 9/11, Drone Victims Should Be Able to Sue U.S.
“Finally, we have an example of the U.S. Congress putting U.S. citizens above the relationship with the Saudi government,” says CodePink’s Medea Benjamin in response to the vote by Congress to allow Americans to sue Saudi Arabia over the 9/11… Read More ›
Bill McKibben: Dakota Access Pipeline Resistance Powerful Enough to Overwhelm Fossil Fuel Industry
We speak with 350.org’s Bill McKibben about how the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and members of hundreds of other tribes from across the U.S., Canada and Latin America have resisted construction of the $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline, even as… Read More ›
As Earth Reaches Frightening CO2 Milestone, Bill McKibben Calls for War on Climate Change
“We are under attack from climate change—and our only hope is to mobilize like we did in WWII,” says Bill McKibben, co-founder of 350.org, in an extended interview in our New York studio. “It’s not that we need to go… Read More ›
Headlines for September 30, 2016
U.N. Calls Aleppo a “Humanitarian Catastrophe” as Ceasefire Talks Fail India Evacuates Thousands After Strikes Kill Pakistani Soldiers in Kashmir Israel: World Leaders Attend Funeral of Former PM Shimon Peres New Jersey: Hoboken Train Crash Kills One and Injures Over… Read More ›
FEC Stalemate on Banning Foreign Money in U.S. Elections Could Be Ending
The six members of the Federal Election Commission found unusual common ground Thursday in a discussion of foreign money in U.S. politics, informally agreeing to move forward after Republican commissioners have had more time to consider the subject. This is noteworthy… Read More ›
Shadow Regulation: the Back-Room Threat to Digital Rights
When a new law threatens to stifle online speech, to limit our use of the Internet, or allow others to control our digital devices, we can push back in a variety of ways—participating in formal consultations, calling or petitioning our… Read More ›
Five Lawmakers Are Challenging Gag Orders on FBI National Security Letters
The Department of Justice’s policies surrounding lengthy gag orders on secret FBI requests for records are unconstitutional, wrote five members of Congress in a legal brief filed Thursday. When companies or individuals receive these requests, known as national security letters, they are… Read More ›
FBI Says Edward Snowden Is Reason Companies Are Resisting Handing Over Phone Records
Companies became more resistant to the FBI’s collection of their customers’ information following revelations by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, according to a Department of Justice Inspector General report released Thursday. Partly because of the stigma around the telephony program,… Read More ›