Yesterday, the New York Times published a troubling article about remotely-readable credit cards using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology:
"[I]n tests on 20 cards from Visa, MasterCard and American Express, the researchers here found that the cardholder's name and other data was being transmitted without encryption and...

The Xinhua news agency reports (via AP) that the Chinese government's Internet Society of China will "require bloggers register with authorities under their real names."
It is well-settled in the United States that the First Amendment shelters the right to blog anonymously. The US Supreme Court has...

Come support EFF and hear DRM-free tunes from Calabash Music on November 5 at Little Baobab in San Francisco.
Calabash Music is a leading online distributor of music from around the world, providing its entire catalog in MP3 format and splitting sales revenue 50-50 with artists. Local...

Today, Universal Music Group sued Grouper and Bolt.com for hosting copyrighted music videos uploaded by individual users. According to Reuters, Universal "made clear that ... [it] retain[ed] the right to add" to the lawsuit Sony Pictures, which recently bought Grouper.
And thus the record industry lawsuits roll...

A recent report from the House Committee on Government Reform shows that sloppy handling of personal data is rampant across the federal government, with 19 agencies self-reporting at least one leak of personally identifiable information since 2003. According to the report:
Taken as a whole, the agency...

In a Reuters article published yesterday, Yahoo Music general manager David Goldberg offers this choice quote:
"The notion that a track I buy in DRM is protected and one without DRM isn't is a fallacy.... It's all nonsense. Music is never going to be protected, and anybody who...

Today Judge Walker issued an order in our case against AT&T setting a case management conference on November 14, 2006. The case management conference is an important step towards opening up discovery and moving the litigation forward. Previously, Judge Walker had placed the case on hold. Case management...