After months of uncertainty, supporters of reliable elections earned a huge victory on Friday when Governor Schwarzenegger signed SB 370, a bill designed to plug critical holes in the state's rules governing audits and paper trail requirements. While California led the nation by passing one of the first laws...

It's important that in yesterday's Doe v. Cahill decision, yet another court has ruled that the Constitution requires that plaintiffs meet a standard showing they have a case before unmasking an anonymous online speaker. Indeed, the Delaware Supreme Court is the first state supreme court in the country to...

Imagine if the RIAA could ban critics from visiting its public website just by posting a warning linked from a webpage -- "No RIAA critics are allowed to read this website!" Suppose that it actually had the power to back up the ban with federal lawsuits, criminal penalties, and even...

Last week, we wrote about how a company called Memletics sought to protect its books from infringement by printing the name, address, phone, and credit card number of the people who buy the books on every 10th page.
We're pleased to report that in response to our...

EFF returned to Geneva this week for the WIPO General Assembly, a two-week marathon meeting where last year's progress is reviewed and future plans are hatched laid. While there are dozens of items on the agenda, we're tracking two very closely: the future of WIPO's work vis-a-vis the developing world...