Why Mitch McConnell Cannot Be Allowed to Decide the Fate of the Patriot Act
Oversight Report on FBI’s Use of Patriot Act Highlights Need for Intelligence Reform at Crucial Moment
The Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) yesterday released another report on the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s use of Section 215 of the Patriot Act between 2007 and 2009. The report was long delayed due to declassification and redaction issues, but the timing is appropriate considering...
Why Mitch McConnell Cannot Be Allowed to Decide the Fate of the Patriot Act
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has made it clear this week that, while the Senate is rapidly approaching recess, the Senate “will stay in [session] until a deal is struck to extend” the Patriot Act. McConnell has also introduced legislation for both long-term and short-term reauthorization of the Patriot...
The Unexpected Policy Laundering Implications of the Garcia v. Google Dissent
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals this week sensibly, if belatedly, reversed its mistaken order requiring Google to take down a controversial video based on a specious copyright claim. But there’s more to this story than the free speech win. Unfortunately, Judge Alex Kozinski's dissent points to an alarming...
Victory: Photo Hobbyist Prevails Over Junk-Patent Bully
Camden, New Jersey – Patent bully Garfum has abandoned its lawsuit against an online photo hobbyist, just one day after a federal judge set the date for a face-off in court against lawyers for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
EFF together with Durie Tangri LLP represent Bytephoto.com, which has...
California Attorney General Locks Down Wiretap and Other Criminal Justice Data
The California Attorney General's office is required every year to compile details on each state-level wiretap order filed by local prosecutors.
Mandated by the legislature as a transparency measure in the highly secret process of electronic surveillance, the annual California Electronic Interceptions Report is a wellspring of...
La Regulación de Inteligencia en Colombia Se Raja en los Derechos Humanos
En la actualidad, cada vez los Estados cuentan con más medios para vigilar las comunicaciones de las personas debido a los constantes avances tecnológicos. Ahora más que nunca, los Estados cuentan con una mayor capacidad para realizar vigilancia simultánea, pasiva, invasiva y de larga escala. Esto plantea un riesgo para...
Federal Anti-SLAPP Bill Introduced in the House
UPDATE: The House Judiciary Committee plans to hold a hearing on June 22, 2016, on the SPEAK FREE Act. This comes a year after 33 organizations, including EFF, sent a letter in June 2015 to the House Judiciary Committee leadership urging them to move the SPEAK FREE Act...
Colombian Users to ISPs: "Where Is My Data?"
Africa's Worst New Internet Censorship Law Could be Coming to South Africa
Only once in a while does an Internet censorship law or regulation come along that is so audacious in its scope, so misguided in its premises, and so poorly thought out in its execution, that you have to check your calendar to make sure April 1 hasn't come around again....
