Justice Department Finds Flaws in FBI Terror ListSurprise! The exponential growth the terror watch list has led to errors — including 24,000 names included on the basis of outdated or irrelevant information.
Libraries Raise Concerns About Google BooksLibrarians submitted a letter to the court considering the Google...

Here we go again. On Tuesday, South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster notified craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster that unless craigslist removes its erotic services section within 10 days, "craigslist management may be subject to criminal investigation and prosecution." McMaster's threat comes on the heels of increasingly bellicose rhetoric in...

Rep. Boucher Pushes Internet Privacy LegislationThe Virginia congressman wants legislation that will protect the public against behavioral advertising and other new technologies.
Obama's First 100 Days: High Marks for Science, Low for PrivacyWired's Threat Level blog grades the Obama administration on issues of copyright, cyber security, transparency...

In recent weeks, there have been a number of important developments relating to the the Google Book Search settlement, currently awaiting approval before a court in New York. As we've written previously, this settlement would end the litigation that has pitting book publishers and authors against Google over...

Today EFF issued a report about the Investigative Data Warehouse, a gigantic billion-document storehouse of information maintained by the FBI. In addition, EFF wrote to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy and House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, asking Congress to examine the IDW.
In August 2006,...