Today, a landmark bill that would require tough privacy and security safeguards for Radio Frequency Identification tags in state-issued IDs sailed through the California Senate on a 33-2 bipartisan vote.
Without proper protections, RFIDs in IDs can broadcast your private information to anyone and leave you vulnerable to...

Today, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Silvestre Reyes announced [PDF] plans for hearings on the NSA spying program. Investigations of this still-shadowy surveillance are long overdue, and we're hopeful that this is only the beginning of vigorous Congressional oversight.
In particular, Reyes' stated intention to dig into the telecommunications...

In recent weeks a community of enthusiasts has developed a useful, and impressive, set of unauthorized enhancements to the Apple TV. These enhancements make this product work better for end users, and they exist in a great tradition of user innovation in which users who care about...

State Censorship of the Net Is GrowingOut of 41 countries surveyed by the Open Net Initiative, 25
showed evidence of content filtering.
Register of Copyrights Says: Limit Betamax Claims that the Betamax doctrine should only apply to
"free, over-the-air television for time-shifting."
David...

On the heels of a letter from House Judiciary Committee leaders, Senate Judiciary Committee's heads Patrick Leahy and Arlen Specter wrote to the Attorney General demanding information about the illegal NSA domestic spying program:
"The Committee on the Judiciary is charged with overseeing and legislating on constitutional protections,...

Four senators pressed Attorney General Alberto Gonzales this week to come clean about the relationship between the NSA spying program and former Deputy Attorney General James Comey's dramatic testimony about a controversial classified program. The Department of Justice declined to change its previous testimony, but Congress isn't...

In light of former Deputy Attorney General James Comey's testimony before the Senate yesterday, four senators pressed Attorney General Alberto Gonzales for more answers about the NSA spying program:
"Specifically, Mr. Comey testified that you and former White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card went to Mr. Ashcroft's...