When a company like Viacom sends more than 160,000 DMCA takedown notices to YouTube, there is a risk that some fair use "dolphins" will get caught along with the infringing "tuna." Well, another "dolphin" got caught up in the DMCA takedown driftnet. Thanks to the "hotline" established by Viacom...

A landmark bill that would require tough privacy and security safeguards for Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags in state-issued IDs sailed through the California Senate recently on a broad bipartisan vote. It's already over its first hurdle in the Assembly, and, if you live in California, we need...

Forcing all state DMVs to issue new standardized drivers' licenses under REAL ID seems bound for catastrophe, and the federal government's recent passport delay debacle provides more reason to expect the worst.
According to the AP, "The State Department has been flooded with passport applications since new...

With Senators once again attempting to push through immigration reform, check out Jim Harper's excellent article about how the proposal's employment verification section implicates your privacy. Along with expanding the scope of REAL ID before it's even implemented and effectively forcing all Americans to present this standardized...

AT&T has announced plans to sell out its customers.
No, this time we're not talking about spying on telephone and Internet communications on the government's behalf. AT&T is now kowtowing to the entertainment industry and jointly developing undisclosed technical measures in yet another desperate attempt to stop...

Discussions on streamlining ? or what some delegates are describing as ?downsizing? ? the set of 71 proposals into a shorter ?actionable? list are proceeding fairly expeditiously. The Chair, the Ambassador of Barbados, Trevor Clarke, is running this week?s meeting in much the same way he ran the last PCDA...

On the heels of Representatives in the House threatening to subpoena documents related to NSA's domestic spying program, the NY Times reports that the Senate Judiciary Committee has now set a vote on whether to authorize subpoenas.