Today is day three of the seventh round of ACTA negotiations, currently taking place in Guadalajara, Mexico.
La Quadrature Du Net is a French advocacy group formed to promote digital rights and online freedom. Its name comes by analogy between the unsolvable mathematical problem of "squaring the...

In yesterday's State of the Union address, President Obama made an important commitment to openness and transparency in government:
It's time to require lobbyists to disclose each contact they make on behalf of a client with my Administration or Congress.
This is welcome news. For the past...

Every major country in the ACTA negotiations claims that its own laws will remain unchanged by the treaty. But without changing a word of domestic law, ACTA can still be dangerous to a country's — or a continent's — economy. This week at Deeplinks, we've asked guest bloggers from around...

Too often, online services draft their "Terms of Service" (TOS) agreements in ways that are one-sided and overreaching. In Europe, however, regulators are beginning to step in to protect consumers. In late November, the U.K.'s Office of Fair Trading (or OFT) announced that Apple, Inc. agreed...

Chris Riley, Policy Counsel for Free Press (and former EFF legal intern), has worked up an illuminating multi-part series of blog posts explaining some of the key issues that have been raised in the FCC's net neutrality proceedings (EFF's comments to the FCC echo many of the points discussed)....

The next round of negotiations on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) — the secret copyright treaty that targets the Internet — starts tomorrow in Guadalajara, Mexico. From January 26-29, negotiators from Australia, Canada, the European Union, Japan, Jordan, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, the Republic of Korea, Singapore, Switzerland, and the...

TechDirt's Mike Masnick is at the Midem music industry conference in Cannes this week. He put together a fantastic memo to the International Association of Entertainment Lawyers: "The Future Of Music Business Models (And Those Who Are Already There)".
Masnick writes that the mainstream entertainment industry's formula...

Secretary Clinton's speech last week on Internet Freedom was an important step in bringing online free expression and privacy to the forefront of the United States' foreign policy agenda.
But for all the strong language, it was also a speech of caveats: powerful statements like "we stand for...

Earlier this week, the DOJ’s Inspector General issued a heavily redacted report about the FBI’s Communications Analysis Unit (CAU), which found "shocking" violations, including embedded telecom employees providing customer phone records in response to post-it notes.
While the underlying violations are egregious enough, the report itself is problematic...

Today, the DOJ's Office of the Inspector General issued a long awaited report on the FBI's use of 'exigent letters' to obtain phone records. While the report has many interesting and shocking revelations, three issues jumped out at us: Post-it note process; a secret new legal theory; and...