After a petition from the FBI and other federal law enforcement agencies, the FCC ruled last year that companies like Vonage and private institutions that provide Net access must redesign their networks to facilitate wiretaps. By forcing broadband Internet and interconnected voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services to abide by...

Opposition is mounting against the Cheney-Specter surveillance bill. Specter postponed a vote on the bill until after a hearing on Wednesday, having tried to rush it through yesterday.
As we pointed out, yesterday's victory allowing our case against AT&T to go forward demonstrates that the...

If adult entertainment publisher Perfect 10 gets its way in its lawsuit against Google, millions of web publishers, bloggers, and web users will suddenly be on the wrong side of copyright law.As we've previously discussed, Perfect 10 claims that Google violates its copyrights by indexing Perfect 10 photos posted...

Today, EFF achieved a critical victory in our case against AT&T. Here are some key quotes from the decision:
p.36, "To defer to a blanket assertion of [state] secrecy here would be to abdicate that duty, particularly because the very subject matter of this litigation has...

Today, Judge Walker denied the government's and AT&T's motions to dismiss in our case against AT&T for assisting the NSA's massive and illegal spying program. The order can be found here.
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