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...

This morning it seemed that complaints from EFF and other privacy advocates and journalists had apparently helped created a change in White House policy concerning the use of cookies and tracking technologies on whitehouse.gov. We were ready to give kudos to the Obama Administration for listening to privacy advocates, something...

It's hard to find many people who've worked as hard to create an open and transparent government as Carl Malamud. To name just a few of his recent accomplishments: He's convinced C-SPAN to license Congressional hearings under Creative Commons, worked to free California and Oregon state legislation...