A California state appeals court ruled in favor of the Electronic Frontier Foundation's (EFF's) petition on behalf of three online journalists today, holding that the online journalists have the same right to protect the confidentiality of their sources as offline reporters do. Here's the Court's summary:Apple Computer, Inc. (Apple),...

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This morning we had the first court hearing in EFF's class-action lawsuit against AT&T. Over AT&T's objection, the court refrained from closing the courtroom and denied AT&T's bid to force us to return the AT&T documents supporting our Motion for a Preliminary Injunction. While keeping the documents under seal...

This week members of over twenty civil liberties groups -- including the the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, the ACLU,
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Balances, EPIC and the
href="http://www.libertycoalition.net/">Liberty Coalition -- are calling
Congress to...

Editor and Publisher has published an informative critique of the Washington Post's early poll in the wake of USA Today's report last week that three major telcos have violated the privacy of millions of ordinary Americans as part of the National Security Agency's (NSA's) spying program. Calling...

Early Saturday morning, in the darkest hours of the night, the Department of Justice made good its threat to file a motion to dismiss our class-action lawsuit against AT&T, contending that AT&T's collaboration with the NSA's massive and illegal program to wiretap and data-mine Americans' communications (which violates...

Today the Progress & Freedom Foundation (PFF), a DC-based "market-oriented think tank that studies the digital revolution and its implications for public policy," released a report entitled "The DMCA Dialectic: Towards Constructive Criticism." In the report, PFF Senior Adjunct Fellow Solveig Singleton argues that DRM, and laws to stand...