Repealing Broadband Privacy Rules, Congress Sides with the Cable and Telephone Industry
Repealing Broadband Privacy Rules, Congress Sides with the Cable and Telephone Industry
Putting the interests of Internet providers over Internet users, Congress today voted to erase landmark broadband privacy protections. If the bill is signed into law, companies like Cox, Comcast, Time Warner, AT&T, and Verizon will have free rein to hijack your searches, sell your data, and hammer you with unwanted...
Privacy By Practice, Not Just By Policy: A System Administrator Advocating for Student Privacy
When Matt L. started to raise the alarm about educational technology in his school district, he knew it would ruffle some feathers.
As a system administrator (or sysadmin), Matt has had a front-row seat to the increasing use of technology in his rural, public school district. At first, the...
Let’s Make The Copyright Office Less Political, Not More
After three years of discussing changes to copyright law, Congress’s first bill is a strange one. House and Senate Judiciary Committee leaders have introduced a bill that would radically change the way the Register of Copyrights is picked – taking the process out of the hands of the Librarian...
California Bill To Ban “Fake News” Would Be Disastrous for Political Speech
Update (12:00 p.m., March 28, 2017): A.B. 1104 has been pulled and will not be heard in committee today.
Memo to California Assemblymember Ed Chau: you can’t fight fake news with a bad law.
On Tuesday, the California Assembly’s Committee on Privacy and Consumer Affairs, which Chau...
Small ISPs Oppose Congress's Move to Abolish Privacy Protections
Republicans in Congress Are Disregarding Their Own Privacy Policies
Urban Homesteaders Win Cancellation of Bogus Trademarks
San Francisco – Urban homesteaders can speak freely about their global movement for sustainable living, after convincing the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to cancel bogus trademarks for the terms “urban homesteading” and “urban homestead.” The authors and activists were represented by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and law...
