If you happen to be a fan of the heavy metal band Isis (an unfortunate name, to be sure), you may have trouble ordering its merchandise online. Last year, Paypal suspended a fan who ordered an Isis t-shirt, presumably on the false assumption that there was some association...

In recent months, social media platforms—under pressure from a number of governments—have adopted new policies and practices to remove content that promotes terrorism. As the Guardian reported, these policies are typically carried out by low-paid contractors (or, in the case of YouTube, volunteers) and with little to no transparency...

Every year, EFF has lawyers with its Coders’ Rights Project on hand in Las Vegas at Black Hat, B-Sides and DEF CON for security researchers with legal questions about their research or presentations. EFF’s Coders’ Rights Project protects programmers, researchers, hackers, and developers engaged in cutting-edge exploration of technology....

Dear Tim, Jeff, and W3C colleagues,
On behalf of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, I would like to formally submit our request for an appeal of the Director's decision to publish Encrypted Media Extensions as a W3C Recommendation, announced on 6 July 2017.
The grounds for this appeal...

Second court recommends awarding legal fees to defendant hit with patent troll’s lawsuit
Update: On August 9, 2017, District Court Judge Rosenberg rejected Shipping & Transit's objections to the Magistrate Judge's report and recommendation awarding fees. The court ordered Shipping & Transit to pay $36,317.50 plus interest in...

This week is an important one in the ongoing negotiations over new copyright rules in Europe—which will have reverberations all over the world. As you may recall, the negotiations centre around two worrisome proposals being pushed by publisher and music industry lobby groups for inclusion in a new Digital...