In Bangladesh, where just last month well-known blogger Ahmed Rajib Haider was murdered in the street, and where have been on the rise, the latest news is that three bloggers have been detained for allegedly demeaning Islam and the Prophet Mohammed on their blogs....

"Is a cell phone really a pair of trousers?"
That's the question posed in a Texas case dealing with whether the police need a warrant to search the contents of a cell phone sitting in a jail's property room. In a new amicus brief we filed in the...

In a blow to the future of the first sale doctrine—the law that protects your ability to lend, sell, or give away your copy of books, music and other copyrighted works—a federal court held today that the Redigi music service, which allows music fans to store and resell music...

In July 2009, South Korea became the first country to introduce a graduated response or "three strikes" law. The statute allows the Minister of Culture or the Korean Copyright Commission to tell ISPs and Korean online service providers to suspend the accounts of repeated infringers and block or...

From April 5-7, EFF will be at the National Conference for Media Reform in Denver, Colorado—and we hope to see you there. Hosted by our friends at Free Press, the conference brings together innovators, journalists, activists, artists and more to celebrate the media's greatest advances and solve its...

In a victory for open source and common sense, a federal judge has thrown out a patent suit against the Linux-based operating system on the grounds that the patent claims a mathematical algorithm. The order is encouraging both for the result and because the judge ruled at the beginning...

The flood of software patents has created an environment where companies are afraid that innovation leads to being hit by patent lawsuits. Every dollar spent fighting patent trolls or waging patent wars is a dollar not spent researching, developing, and creating jobs. The situation is so bad...

Yesterday, the Golden Gate Bridge switched to all-electronic tolling. As of March 27, drivers entering San Francisco no longer have the option to pay the $6 cash toll to a human toll collector. Unfortunately, all of the bridge's electronic payment options track the identities of those paying the toll,...