Mark Klein, the AT&T technician who came to EFF with evidence of government spying, eloquently explained to PBS NOW this weekend why Congress should reject immunity for telecoms taking part in the spying. If you missed it, you can watch the show online. Fortunately, a majority...

Sunday's LA Times has a great opinion piece by political writer Julian Sanchez, situating the current debate over FISA reform within the long and sordid history of illegal surveillance in the US.
Going back to the '20s, Sanchez reviews multiple occasions when authorities have used spying...

On Friday, Representative Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) wrote an op-ed in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune that epitomizes the sort of unvarnished misrepresentations and scare tactics that the apologists for the President and the phone companies have increasingly resorted to in the fight over amending the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance...

Italian Privacy Authority Upholds Privacy of P2P Users' IP addressesGoogle translation of court decision defending 3000 Italian P2P users, whose IP addresses were obtained by German label Peppermint.

License Plate Surveillance 'The Hallmarks of a Totalitarian State', Says German Supreme CourtRoundly rejects the technology from being used in...