Tomorrow evening, join EFF in celebrating our 17th year of defending digital rights! Since 1990, EFF has been there fighting for freedom and civil liberties.
The birthday bash will be on Tuesday, January 15, 7-11 PM, at 111 Minna Gallery in San Francisco. Adrian & the Mysterious D...

Is it illegal to make copies of legally purchased digital music for personal use? Millions of people do this every day when they rip a CD to their hard drive, copy audio files to their iPod, or burn a back up on CD — a practice that is well within...

Privacy International reports standards slipping around the worldA new study finds that privacy lacks adequate protection in almost every country on Earth.
Australia's plans to filter the Internet under firePrivacy advocates complain that the plan to require ISPs to filter content amounts to censorship.
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Free video hosting sites like YouTube, Yahoo! Video, and Daily Motion are enabling creators to share video instantly with millions of viewers around the world. A new report from the Center for Social Media takes a close look at these user generated sites, and finds that there is much more...

In one of his last official acts of 2007, President Bush signed into law the first major overhaul of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in more than a decade. The Open Government Act of 2007 makes much-needed changes to the FOIA process that will give Americans better access...

Help the US Patent Office reject a bogus patent claimThe Peer-To-Patent Project (PtP) is a new initiative by New York Law School's Do Tank in cooperation with the US Patent Office (USPTO) that uses open source and open knowledge techniques to help stop the deluge of bad...

Today, Apple news site Think Secret announced it has settled Apple's lawsuit against it. While the terms have not been disclosed, "no sources were revealed and Think Secret will no longer be published."The Think Secret suit, filed several years ago, sought to hold Think Secret liable for posting news...