Last time we wrote about the EU's Bono Report on the Cultural Industries, it was
to
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of a rightsholders' hijack. Lobbying groups like
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were encouraging amendments that would give a European Union stamp of approval to ISP
filtering content, blocking...

Chaos Computer Club Publishes German Official's FingerprintSnatched from a glass left after a talk, Interior Minister Wolfgang Schauble's fingerprint is now (irrevocably) the biometric of choice for German pranksters...

A Technical Guide to PhormThe Foundation for Information Policy Research's Richard Clayton analyses exactly how Phorm works -- including...

We've written previously about the showdown between the states and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) over Real ID -- a federal mandate that seeks to turn states' driver's licenses into national identity cards. Several states have rightfully vowed to oppose Real ID because it's expensive and a massive...

Yesterday, a federal court ruled in Elektra v. Barker that "an offer to distribute ... for the purpose of further distribution" may be enough to violate a copyright owner's distribution right. This ruling opens the door open for civil attempt liability when it comes to distribution -- in...

Yesterday's announcement of a détente between Comcast and BitTorrent was great news. Unfortunately, the general problem of ISPs doing strange things to Internet traffic without telling their customers is likely to continue in the future. EFF and many other organizations are working on software to test ISPs for unusual...