Germany?s Federal Ministry of Justice has circulated a controversial draft bill (here in German only) that is bad news for online privacy. From preliminary reports it seems that it attempts to outlaw the ability to send anonymous email by ordering ISPs to retain data traceable to individuals, and requiring...

We've still got a long way to go before the privacy-invasive REAL ID Act is off the books, but yesterday's vote in the Senate may one day be seen as a critical moment on the road to victory.
A provision smuggled into the major immigration reform bill would...

Somewhere in his busy schedule ? in between writing brilliant sci-fi novels, commenting on the current state of copyright law and intellectual property, co-editing the popular blog BoingBoing, and teaching at USC ? EFF Fellow Cory Doctorow finds time to podcast.
Cory has been podcasting his fiction, reading...

When the new music webcasting royalty rates kick in on July 15, your favorite station may sound just like it does today -- silent. A broad coalition of music webcasters turned their stations off today in protest of the Copyright Arbitration Royalty Board's recent rate ruling, which threatens to...

Online free speech faces many threats today, but the Internet's incredible abundance and variety of expression might never have blossomed to begin with if the first major court battle had gone the wrong way.
Tuesday marks the ten year anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court?s landmark decision...

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Please note that this is an unofficial version transcribed by the NGO coalition (Petra Buhr (IP Justice), Sherwin Siy (Public Knowledge), and Gwen Hinze (Electronic Frontier Foundation)), on the basis of Member States' comments in the afternoon session of June 22, 2007 at the SCCR S2 and as...