El 28 de enero se celebra el día Internacional de la protección de datos. La celebración tiene como propósito llamar la atención de la ciudadanía acerca de las mejores prácticas para defender nuestros derechos fundamentales frente a la vigilancia desmedida y descontrolada llevada a cabo por la policía y los...

The 911 system has a problem. As people switch from landlines to mobile phones, more and more 911 calls come from wireless devices. But under current FCC E911 (Enhanced 911) regulations, carriers are only required to provide 911 dispatchers with a mobile phone’s location to within 300 meters, and aren’t...

Fighting for government records is sometimes like:
… a game of Battleship, but where you have to go to court to force your opponent to tell you whether you even grazed his aircraft carrier.
… finding yourself at the doors of the Forty Thieves’ cave, except that you...

Seven leading US digital rights and access to knowledge groups, and over 7,550 users, have called on Sen. Wyden today to oppose any new version of Fast Track (aka trade promotion authority) that does not fix the secretive, corporate-dominated process of trade negotiations. In particular, we urge him to stand...

We have a problem when it comes to stopping mass surveillance.
The entity that’s conducting the most extreme and far-reaching surveillance against most of the world’s communications—the National Security Agency—is bound by United States law.
That’s good news for Americans. U.S. law and the Constitution protect...

Update: The government released two new FISC opinions this evening, both of which concern the transition of NSA surveillance to the oversight of the FISC in 2007. Neither of the two documents, available here and here, is the Raw Take order or the 2008 FAA order. The government...