Free speech in the patent world saw a big win on Friday, when the New Hampshire Supreme Court held that calling someone a “patent troll” doesn’t constitute defamation. The court’s opinion [PDF] is good news for critics of abusive patent litigation, and anyone who values robust public debate around...

Update August 28, 2019: The California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training has opened an investigation into the ALPR training program and will "take appropriate action," according to a letter responding to EFF's research.A single surveillance vendor has garnered a monopoly on training law enforcement in California on...

As long we've had electronic mass media, audiences and creators have benefited from periods of technological upheaval that force old gatekeepers to compete with brash newcomers with new ideas about what constitutes acceptable culture and art. Those newcomers eventually became gatekeepers themselves, who then faced their own crop of revolutionaries....

The California Supreme Court just rejected the government’s attempt to require a youth probationer, as a condition of release, to submit to random searches of his electronic devices and social media accounts. The trial court had imposed the condition because the judge believed teenagers “typically will brag” about drug...

Este lunes se cumple el cuarto mes de procesamiento de Ola Bini, el desarrollador de código abierto que se encuentra, actualmente, bajo investigación por parte de las autoridades ecuatorianas. Los fiscales todavía no han revelado ninguna prueba real que apoye las acusaciones formuladas contra Bini. Tras el 12º Foro Regional...

Last summer, we published a comprehensive look at the ways that Facebook could and should open up its data so that users could control their experience on the service, and to make it easier for competing services to thrive.In the time since, Facebook has continued to be rocked by...

Biometric surveillance by companies against consumers is a growing menace to our privacy, freedom of expression, and civil rights. Fortunately, a federal appeals court has ruled that a lawsuit against Facebook for its face surveillance may move forward.The decision, by the federal Ninth Circuit about an Illinois privacy...