Disappointing Ruling in Compelled Laptop Decryption Case
A federal district court in Colorado has handed down an unfortunate early ruling (pdf) in a case in which the government is attempting to force a criminal defendant to decrypt the contents of a laptop.
In United States v. Fricosu, the government seized several computers from the...
Unanimous Supreme Court Ensures Americans Have Protections from GPS Surveillance
San Francisco - In a unanimous decision, the U.S. Supreme Court has confirmed that Americans have constitutional protections against GPS surveillance by law enforcement, holding in U.S. v. Jones that GPS tracking is a "search" under the Fourth Amendment.
In Jones, FBI agents planted a GPS device on a...
Supreme Court Gets It Wrong in Golan v. Holder, Public Domain Mourns
Last week was a pretty good one for copyright law, what with a massive protest against disastrous legislation, that, hooray, got Congress to pay attention and put the legislation on hold. Unfortunately, last week we also saw the results of another bad law that Congress did manage...
Internet Blackout Day Fires Up Digital Rights Activism Around the World
ACLU & EFF to Appeal Secrecy Ruling in Twitter/WikiLeaks Case
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ACLU & EFF to Appeal Secrecy Ruling in Twitter/WikiLeaks Case
Richmond, VA - Fighting to make public government efforts to obtain Internet users' private information without a warrant, today the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) plan to file an appeal in the legal battle over the records of several Twitter users in connection with...
No more back room deals -- Users must have a voice in governing the Internet
MPAA Chairman Chris Dodd gave an interview to the New York Times yesterday, in which "Mr. Dodd said he would welcome a summit meeting between Internet companies and content companies, perhaps convened by the White House, that could lead to...
The Internet Spoke and, Finally, Congress Listened!
The misguided proponents of the disastrous Internet blacklist bills have blinked. Today, Senator Harry Reid announced he would postpone a cloture vote on PIPA scheduled for next Tuesday, which means, as a practical matter, that the bill is dead for now. Shortly after that announcement, Representative Lamar Smith issued...
Join EFF's Senate Call-In Day and Tell Your Senator to Oppose PIPA
1/20/12 UPDATE: The Senate cloture vote on PIPA has been postponed.
Yesterday's anti-blacklist legislation protests were fantastically successful - in the past 24 hours, key lawmakers have withdrawn their support for the proposed legislation or come out against it - but we still have a long...
