On January 11, 2008, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released the final regulations (PDFs 1, 2) for the implementation of the REAL ID Act, the flawed plan to create a national identity card system.
The REAL ID Act was signed into law in 2005 and...

Eric Menhart may call himself a cyberlawyer, but we think he has a lot of learn about cyberlaw -- and common sense. Menhart is the author of a blog about cyberlaw issues called, logically if not innovatively, "Cyberlawg." (As he says in the top right corner, “Cyberlawg = Cyberlaw...

Last November, we reported on H.R. 4137, the College Opportunity and Affordability Act of 2007, which includes misguided anti-piracy requirements for universities. For the most part, the massive, nearly 800-page bill refreshes existing legislation about federal financial aid. But the bill also includes a section with a title...

Last Friday, a House committee published a report about the launch of a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) website that had egregious security vulnerabilities that "exposed thousands of American travelers to potential identity theft." The "Traveler Redress" website was intended to allow travelers erroneously listed on airline watch lists to...

On Friday, EFF filed an amicus brief in Atlantic v. Howell, an Arizona lawsuit brought as part of the RIAA's national campaign against individuals for file-sharing. Although the case has received attention recently over the issue of whether CD ripping is legal, the main event in the...

On January 26, 2008, the University of San Francisco School of Law Intellectual Property Law Bulletin is hosting The Toll Roads: The Legal and Political Debate Over Network Neutrality, a symposium to increase awareness about network neutrality by bringing together lawyers, academics, economists, and technologists for a balanced debate...

Privacy International reports standards slipping around the worldA new study finds that privacy lacks adequate protection in almost every country on Earth.
Australia's plans to filter the Internet under firePrivacy advocates complain that the plan to require ISPs to filter content amounts to censorship.
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