Former CNET blogger Chris Soghoian has produced some of the best coverage on the issue of privacy for users of government websites. His work on the use of YouTube cookies and other tracking technologies on whitehouse.gov brought public attention to the issue, and inspired EFF to ...

The battle to control online music has taken a particularly outrageous turn. As if private censorship, fines, intimidation and blacklisting weren't enough, now the Department of Justice — for the first time we're aware of — is threatening to throw a man in jail for noncommercial music-sharing.The...

As part of EFF's celebration of Sunshine Week, we're providing a list of missing documents related to the National Security Agency’s warrantless wiretapping program. As a result of various Freedom of Information Act lawsuits and Congressional investigations, the government has provided information about the existence of various memoranda...

Even as it attacks DRM on music, Apple is continuing to add more DRM to its own hardware (we recently documented all of Apple's various hardware DRM restrictions). The latest example is the new iPod Shuffle. According to the careful reviewers at iLounge, third-party headphone makers will have...

Whitehouse.gov Continues YouTube UseThe White House appears to have ended its "experiment" with hosting its own videos, and has returned to using YouTube. Will user info be harvested for Google's targeted advertising?
Court Tosses Gibson's Guitar Hero SuitGibson Guitar's patent infringement suit against the Guitar Hero game...

Today Google launched its behavioral targeting ad program, which it calls "interest-based advertising." This move has been widely expected once Google completed its $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick one year ago today.The issues with behavioral advertising have been with us for over a decade (DoubleClick...