On the heels of Representatives in the House threatening to subpoena documents related to NSA's domestic spying program, the NY Times reports that the Senate Judiciary Committee has now set a vote on whether to authorize subpoenas.

The SPY Act is supposed to help stop spyware, deceptive adware, and other malicious software, but it is unlikely to do any good and could actually make things worse. If enacted, it would block lawsuits similar to the one EFF brought against Sony-BMG for infecting customers' computers with...

A new generation of cable TV devices are on the way, but cable companies are working to ensure they can control innovation in novel features and limit your ability to use TV content.
Back in 1996, Congress directed the FCC to foster useful, competitive alternatives to cable providers' proprietary...

The current state of patent law allows for all sorts of ridiculous claims that wouldn?t pass muster if basic common sense principles were applied. Here?s a particularly egregious example to ponder:
U.S. Patent No. 7,228,298
Apparatus and method for perusing selected vehicles having a clean title history
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We've warned that, once the REAL ID Act is implemented, uses of the standardized national ID and associated databases would inevitably expand far beyond their initial purpose and facilitate a wide range of surveillance activities. In fact, mission creep is already happening -- look no further than the immigration...

Last week, we posted to say that iTunes Plus files seem to exhibit some strange variations above and beyond the widely reported fact that they contain the purchaser's name and email address/Apple ID. We've since had time to look at these files more closely, and we can say a...

Google Street View -- Where's the Pro-Privacy Technology?Even EFF attorneys get their privacy invaded by street-
watching tech.
Face Non-Recognition TechnologyAn example of what privacy-protection in Google Street View
might look like.
What Google Is Doing With Your DataThe secretive company reveals part...