This post has been updated and adapted to reflect the developing situation in Sacramento. Thanks to Californians Aware and the First Amendment Coalition for staying on it.
Update 2: AB 76 was passed by the legislature Friday evening, unbeknownst to many journalists and open-government advocates...

"It's time to end the delay, not extend it."
EFF yesterday filed an opposition to the government's request last week for an indefinite "abeyance" in Jewel v. NSA, our lawsuit filed in 2008 to try to stop the NSA spying that is currently pending in federal...

Spies Without Borders IThis is the first article of our Spies Without Borders series. The Spies Without Borders series are looking into how the information disclosed in the NSA leaks affect the international community...

UPDATE: Just hours after the Supreme Court ruled today, at least one company announced it would be offering genetic testing on the BRCA genes for $995—barely one quarter of the approximately $4000 Myriad charges for the same tests.
For the second time in just over a year,...

The United States Chamber of Commerce has come to its senses at last and withdrawn its lawsuit against political activists the Yes Men. In the lawsuit, the Chamber had claimed that a 2009 press conference—in which a Yes Man posing as a Chamber of Commerce spokesperson announced the...

In the first publicly known victory by a non-government party before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), the secret court today granted a motion filed by EFF related to an ongoing Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.
The FISC gave its OK to the public disclosure of an earlier...

ANDREA MITCHELL: “Why do you need every telephone number? Why is it such a broad vacuum cleaner approach?”
JAMES CLAPPER: “Well, you have to start someplace.”—NBC Meet the Press, this past Sunday
Concerned about the surveillance of millions of ordinary Americans, last year Senator Ron Wyden...