Well, now that a high-school senior has done it, everyone wants to know: is it legal to unlock your iPhone?
The answer, as we lawyers like to say, is complicated. And, for that complicated answer, there is no one better qualified than Jennifer Granick, the Stanford Law School...

As students return to school, many colleges are ratcheting up their penalties and restrictions on P2P use. MTV News has a nice round-up, and here are some of the lowlights:
UC Berkeley students will now be booted off the network for a week if they're accused of...

In a lengthy and revealing interview, the Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell admitted that telecommunications companies collaborated with the NSA's massive domestic spying.
Of course, it's long been an open secret that the government is engaging in dragnet surveillance of millions of ordinary Americans and ...

EFF's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) work has helped to prompt the head of the Senate Judiciary Committee to ask for an investigation into whether the attorney general has lied to Congress.
In a letter to the Justice Department Office of the Inspector General, Senator...

In a packed San Francisco courtroom yesterday, EFF urged the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to allow AT&T customers to continue to fight against illegal spying on their telephone and Internet communications.
A ruling probably won't come out for months, but at the hearing the judges were...

In the wake of Congress approving a dramatic expansion of U.S. warrantless wiretapping powers, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments on the future of two critical lawsuits over illegal surveillance of Americans. The hearing is set for August 15, at 2 p.m. in San Francisco.
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A Gateway for HackersSusan Landau says wiretapping may create a security
nightmare by tempting hackers.
China Enacting a High-Tech Plan to Track PeopleThe Chinese government plans to use new ID cards to track
all 12.4 million people in Shenzhen.
Feds Consider Lowering Passenger...