Wow. This morning, the House stood up for our rights and passed a FISA reform bill with no retroactive immunity for phone companies! This is a flat-out rejection of the bill passed by the Senate last month, which would have let phone companies off the hook for illegally delivering innocent...

For weeks, the House has been deliberating on its response to the Senate's FISA Amendments Act, which aims to grant retroactive immunity for telecoms involved in warrantless wiretapping. While it's seemed like a possibility that the House was going to cave and agree to grant immunity, the tides have shifted...

Congress is contemplating a so-called “Anti-Phishing Consumer Protection Act” (APCPA) that takes an odd view of consumer protection. In the name of stopping phishing schemes, Senator Olympia Snowe has introduced S. 2661, a bill that would expand trademark law, limit consumer access to information about competitive products, and eviscerate...

Net Neutrality: Internet Wrecking Ball?Andy Kessler argues that technical fixes won't keep the Internet free.
A Wave of the Watch List, and Speech DisappearsA Treasury Department blacklist apparently has the power to shut down websites. (login may be required)
International Crypto Law Made EasyA Google...

The Wall Street Journal's detailed article on domestic spying (Wall Street Journal, NSA's Domestic Spying Grows As Agency Sweeps Up Data (March 10, 2008), p. A1) provides critical detail and confirmation of the NSA's wholesale acquisition of domestic communications, and helps us understand the Administration's word games. It...

Update: You can find a detailed analysis of claims made in the article here.
The Wall Street Journal's front page today contains an important article that confirms key elements of EFF's suit against AT&T. Officials quoted in the article acknowledge a massive domestic spying operation run by...

UK ISPs to Show Targetted Ads Based on Visited URLsThe set-up claims not to leak information: but should ISPs be surveiling your browser habits in the first place?
Flood of EU Passenger Surveillance Plans Coming, Says Watchdog"Far reaching proposals intended to contribute to the monitoring of travellers...