After years of litigation, and a complete defeat in a New York district court, Viacom’s lawsuit against YouTube is back before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. You’d think by now that Viacom, having lost battle after battle in this war against a version of YouTube that even Viacom...

The bipartisan Innovation Act is the best bill yet when it comes to fighting patent trolls. This post is the second of a series explaining the bill's various provisions. While the Innovation Act won't fix every problem with the patent system, it includes a powerful set of proposed reforms...

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee and one of the NSA’s biggest defenders, released what she calls an NSA “reform” bill today.
Don’t be fooled: the bill codifies some of the NSA’s worst practices, would be a huge setback for everyone’s privacy, and...

The bipartisan Innovation Act is the best bill yet when it comes to fighting patent trolls. This post is the first of a series explaining the bill's various provisions. While the Innovation Act won't fix every problem with the patent system, it includes a powerful set of proposed reforms...

US lawmakers may soon introduce legislation to give the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) a “fast-track” through Congress. Senate Finance committee leaders Sen. Max Baucus and Sen. Orrin Hatch have renewed their call to pass such fast-track legislation and hand over Congress' constitutional power to set the terms of...

Just in time for Halloween, the Washington Post has brought us a horror story about U.S. and U.K. intelligence agencies reading massive amounts of private data directly off of the internal communications infrastructure of U.S. Internet giants Google and Yahoo.
The Post's report reveals that the spy agencies...

Ayer, la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH) realizó la primera audiencia pública donde examinó directamente los programas de vigilancia masiva realizados por las Oficinas de Seguridad de los Estados Unidos (NSA) desde la óptica de los estándares interamericanos de derechos humanos.

Ante la evidencia pública de...

Encryption is one of the most important ways to safeguard data from prying eyes. But what happens when those prying belong to the government? Can they force you to break your own encryption and provide them with the information they want?
In a new amicus brief, we explain...

Patent trolls are facing another legislative threat from Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), who today introduced the Patent Litigation Integrity Act (S. 1612). This bill is a fairly simple—but very important—one that would curb patent trolls' dangerous litigation practices. We strongly support the bill and sent Sen. Hatch a...

When it comes to searching the most sensitive part of our bodies—our DNA—the Fourth Amendment's prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures should be a strong bulwark, keeping the government out of our most personal and private biological information. But in the last few years, those protections have been eroded as...