Julia Angwin reported late Thursday that AT&T is dropping their tracking supercookie program. This comes in the wake of massive customer pressure over the discovery that AT&T and Verizon were quietly inserting unique tracking identifiers in their customers' web browsing and app data, by means of an HTTP...

A court filing unsealed late Wednesday shows that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) made a highly misleading argument to an appeals court in October during a hearing on the constitutionality of National Security Letters (NSLs).
On October 8, the Electronic Frontier Foundation argued before the United...

The San Francisco Bay Area has been most vocal in the fight for net neutrality, and there's a reason: Internet openness is crucial to the trailblazing new artists, technologies, and businesses that thrive in this state. And San Francisco’s own Mayor Ed Lee has been an outspoken supporter...

Pew released a report today detailing the extensive privacy concerns of Americans. The report, which surveyed a nationally representative sample, highlighted their skepticism towards both corporate and government data collection, Americans' enthusiasm for privacy, and Americans' need for more privacy protective tools. It's yet another reason why we...

Este articulo ha sido co-escrito por Maricarmen Sequera, Luis Pablo Alonso Fulchi y Katitza Rodríguez
El proyecto de ley de retención de datos de Paraguay obliga a los proveedores de servicios de Internet (ISPs) a conservar, durante 12 meses, los detalles de quién se comunica con quién,...

Congress continues its path towards becoming the least productive Congress in modern history while on its second vacation in as many months. During their first vacation, we ranked Congressional lawmakers on their support for NSA reform by reviewing bills like the Surveillance State Repeal Act, the ...

For years, pundits and scholars have warned of the implications of social media companies capitulating to foreign governments, handing over user data or censoring content. Facebook’s latest government requests report, released late last week, demonstrates why: as governments grow aware of the fact that stifling speech is as easy...