One of the paradoxes of current social software is how many of your closely-guarded secrets you are obliged to entrust to a third party. Take the social blogging site LiveJournal: its centralized server allows you to set blog posts to "friends only" or "private". To use this feature, you post...

Today, EFF took action in our latest representation aimed at protecting the anonymity of an online speaker. And in this case, for a slight change of pace, the at-fault litigant is a governmental entity.
On June 13, 2007, the New Jersey Township of Manalapan filed a malpractice suit against...

An Arizona appellate court today joined a growing judicial consensus recognizing the need to protect the anonymity of online speakers from overreaching discovery requests.
Mobilisa, a Washington-based communications company, went to court last year to seek the identity of an individual who had obtained an email initially sent...

As Congress gears up to debate giving amnesty to telecoms involved in illegal spying, the terrific Frontline documentary "Spying on the Home Front" will be rebroadcast Tuesday on many PBS stations across the country. This program examines just how far the government has gone with its surveillance program,...