I don't always agree with the Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg, but his latest video missive (there is a print version, too) hits the nail right on the head:
"What we need is a new law from Congress, a law written from the perspective of the consumer...

The ACLU, EFF, and a coalition of plaintiffs achieved a victory for online free speech today when U.S. District Court Judge Lowell Reed ruled [PDF] today that a key Web censorship law violated the First Amendment and issued an order permanently blocking its enforcement.
Passed in 1998, the...

When it was sold to politicians in Brussels, the pitch for the directive on
criminal measures aimed at enforcing IP rights in Europe (IPRED2), was all
about commercial piracy and counterfeit goods that endanger health and safety.
The reality has turned out quite different. The current draft...

If you're an independent filmmaker or dramatist, you may not have many chances to adapt the works of popular fiction writers. Intellectual property law doesn't make it easy, and the licensing fees alone can make approaching big name authors prohibitively expensive.
Jonathan Lethem, however, is one author who is...

Are you a student who knows how to cut code or find security holes? Want to get paid to spend a summer working to defend anonymity online? Thanks to Google's Summer of Code, the Tor Project in collaboration with EFF have positions for several students as full-time developers for the...

A few weeks back, we wrote about how domain name registrar GoDaddy took offline Seclists.org based merely on an informal request and without providing any meaningful notice to the site's operator. Unfortunately, this isn't the only instance in which GoDaddy has carelessly ignored its users' rights.
In February,...

The House of Representatives has passed a bill that will make much-needed updates to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), and strengthen the public's right to get records from the federal government. H.R. 1309, the Freedom of Information Act Amendments of 2007, was approved yesterday by a considerable...