Does your organization know its rights when it comes to government surveillance? Do you and your colleagues have the technical knowledge necessary to secure your organization's sensitive data and communications against government intrusion? Many of the legal protections against government searches and surveillance have been removed since 9/11 and the...

Wow, documentary filmmakers suddenly find themselves with some of the very best resources explaining fair use that have ever been assembled for non-lawyers. First came the Center for Social Media's project to bring together documentarians to distill a Documentary Filmmakers' Statement of Best Practices in Fair...

We recently criticized two New Jersey bills that would eliminate online anonymous speech by requiring every Internet service provider, blog, and website that allows reader comments or provides open forums to demand user identification from every participant. Today, a diverse coalition of companies, public interest organizations, and legal scholars...

News.com reports that American Airlines has subpoenaed Google and YouTube, demanding the name of someone who posted an airline training video online. This is yet another abuse of DMCA 512(h), which allows copyright holders to unmask an Internet user's identity based on a mere allegation of...

A proposed New Jersey bill would eliminate online anonymous speech by requiring every Internet service provider, blog, and website that allows reader comments or provides open forums to demand user identification from every participant. Assemblyman Peter Biondi's A1327 would also require that service providers record...

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's ... superpodcasters! Adventures of Superman issue #648 featured characters wearing clothing with logos of three popular tech podcasts, This Week in Tech (TWiT), commandN, and Hak.5. Eight copies of the comic signed by the podcasters...

EFF is warning the public about a so-called anonymous email service located at Advicebox.com. Advicebox.com's tagline is "Anonymous email made easy" but this service does not provide real anonymity -- it's a trap for the unwary and should not be used by battered spouses, whistleblowers and others...