After an afternooon listening to the fascinating work of the full Senate Appropriations committee in streaming audio, I can safely report that the rumored Broadcast Flag amendment was not introduced. If this was a trial balloon for future proposals, EFF and Public Knowledge supporters brought it down...

After only one year, the international student movement FreeCulture.org is already a smashing success. Founded by the Swarthmore students who fought to keep the Diebold e-voting memos online, the organization has expanded into nine chapters across the country with more to come. They've monster mashed-up the dead...

This week brought yet another privacy scandal for the Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) fundamentally flawed "Secure Flight" passenger surveillance program. The Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) chief privacy officer, Nuala O' Connor-Kelly, is launching an investigation to find out whether the program broke federal privacy law by hiding from the...