Today the Ninth Circuit issued an opinion in Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation v. Bush, returning the case to the District Court for further consideration. Al-Haramain had sued the government, alleging that they had a document proving the Islamic charity was subject to the NSA warrantless surveillance program. The government asserted...

This week, Google announced the Google Policy Fellowship, a program that gives students the chance to spend the summer working alongside host organizations on topics of Internet and technology policy. Much like how the Summer of Code project aims to develop and promote open source projects, Google is hoping...

UPDATE: H.R. 4137 was unanimously approved by the House Education and Labor Committee. Stay tuned for more news and actions you can take to oppose this threat.
After being beaten back in a Senate amendment this past summer, mandatory campus copyright policing is back with a vengeance. The...

NSA Sought Data Before 9/11A National Journal article provides the details on Qwest's
history with the NSA.
A Response to Rockefeller on ImmunitySalon blogger Glenn Greenwald dissects the senator's New
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A Response to Ashcroft on...

EFF has partnered with a coalition of government watchdog groups in launching governmentdocs.org, a site that consolidates government documents produced by Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests from various organizations. The FOIA is a law that forces the federal government to disclose documents detailing its activities when asked.
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UPDATE: The video link below was limited to the live stream of this morning's press event. A posted video clip of Mark Klein can be found here.
On Wednesday, November 7, at 10:30 a.m. EST, telecommunications technician and AT&T whistleblower Mark Klein will speak out at a press...

As we've said many times before, DRM is not about preventing piracy, it's about giving entertainment companies control over disruptive innovation. Here's the latest example: tomorrow DVD-CCA (the entity that controls the CSS encryption standard for DVDs) will be voting on an amendment to the...