As EFF members will recall, we were part of a large coalition of groups that raised serious concerns about the introduction of Goodmail, an email authentication and certification service that charges those who send email to guarantee delivery, splitting the money with the ISPs who are supposed to delivery...

June 12, 2007
Senator Ellen Corbett
Chair, Senate Judiciary Committee
State Capitol, Room 3092
Sacramento, CA 95814
RE: A.B. 1484, Model State Trademark Law
Dear Senator Corbett,
The undersigned, a group of law professors, consumer advocates, and trademark lawyers practicing in California, write...

Most people assume that consumers have a fair use right to time shift television to watch at a later time. As a result, lots of companies now sell digital video recorders (DVRs) that enable you to do this, including TiVo, and it's generally accepted that selling DVRs is perfectly legal...

Last week, Congressional representatives threatened to subpoena information regarding the NSA's illegal domestic spying program. The Administration has repeatedly refused to comply with requests for documents including the President's orders authorizing the program and legal opinions related to it. It's long past time that Congress issued subpoenas and...

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...