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...

Electronic Frontier Finland to Fight Business Snooping LawThe so-called "Lex Nokia", which allows businesses to monitor their employees' net traffic, passed this month, but EFI vows to fight on.

German Court Rules Current E-Voting UnconstitutionalThe 2005 election, which used electronic voting, will stand, but the court says that...

Thanks in part to feedback from EFF, Google has chosen to take a strong and public stand on what legal privacy protections should apply if the government comes calling for the location data collected by Latitude, Google’s new cell phone-based friend-finding service. Google has decided to match the policy...

Recently, there was a minor scandal when TechCrunch accused Last.fm of turning over information — the identities of people listening to copies of a leaked U2 album — to the RIAA. Last.fm issued a scathing denial of these allegations, and it's good to hear that the site...

Judge Orders Defendent to Decrypt LaptopA federal judge in Vermont ordered a criminal defendant to provide his PGP passphrase so that prosecutors can examine his computer.
Applying the 4th Amendment to the InternetOrin Kerr presents some general principals for a technology-neutral translation of 4th Amendment principals from...