After three years of discussing changes to copyright law, Congress’s first bill is a strange one. House and Senate Judiciary Committee leaders have introduced a bill that would radically change the way the Register of Copyrights is picked – taking… Read More ›
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A Dangerous California Bill Would Leave Students and Teachers Vulnerable to Intrusive Government Searches
A dangerous bill in California would make it easy for the government to search the cell phones and online accounts of students and teachers. A.B. 165 rips away crucial protections for the more than 6-million Californians who work at and… Read More ›
Sen. Wyden: Border Searches of Digital Devices Should Require a Warrant
This week Sen. Wyden (D-OR) sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary John Kelly stating that he will soon introduce legislation that would require law enforcement agencies to obtain a warrant before searching the data on digital… Read More ›
Congress Contemplates Making it Illegal to Protect Consumer Privacy Online
Cable and telephone companies are pushing Congress to make it illegal for the federal government to protect online consumer privacy. When you go online you reveal a tremendous amount of private information about yourself. What you browse, what you purchase,… Read More ›
EFF to BART: Adopt Spy Tech Control Law
EFF urged the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Board to adopt a new law that would ensure community control of whether to adopt new surveillance technologies. All too often, police executives unilaterally decide to adopt powerful new spying tools that… Read More ›
Newly-Released Documents Show Hollywood Influenced the Copyright Office’s Comments on Set-Top Boxes
Months of aggressive lobbying by the MPAA and its allies at the Copyright Office gave them the result they desired In the current debate over cable set-top box competition, content and cable industries worked together to oppose regulation that could… Read More ›
FCC Helped Create the Stingray Problem, Now it Needs to Fix It
It is long overdue for the FCC to address Stingrays’ impact on speech, interference with 911 calls, and invasion of privacy. FCC Helped Create the Stingray Problem, Now it Needs to Fix It It is long overdue for the FCC… Read More ›
Copyright Loophole Could Undermine Important Consumer Protection Bill
The Consumer Review Fairness Act Is a Noble Bill but Could Leave the Door Open for Copyright Abuse There’s a bill making its way through Congress that would protect consumers’ freedom of speech by limiting unfair form contracts. The Consumer… Read More ›
The Global Ambitions of Pakistan's New Cyber-Crime Act
Despite near universal condemnation from Pakistan’s tech experts; despite the efforts of a determined coalition of activists, and despite numerous attempts by alarmed politicians to patch its many flaws, Pakistan’s Prevention of Electronic Crimes Bill (PECB) last week passed into… Read More ›
A Free and Open Internet Under Assault in Congress
Net Neutrality’s Opponents in Congress Are Determined to Defund, Stall, and Hamstring the FCC Internet users recently enjoyed a historic victory in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit where the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC)… Read More ›