Today, the White House announced that Michael Froman is the nominee to be the new U.S. Trade Representative. The U.S. Trade Rep is the office in charge of negotiating all trade agreements including the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), and the upcoming US-EU...

EFF Analyzes Last-Minute Amendments Made to CISPA
Recently the privacy-invading cybersecurity bill CISPA (Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act) passed the House. In its final version, CISPA still contains many of the same problems as before. An attempt was made to fix core privacy...

It’s a tried and true principle that once a work enters the public domain, absent an act of Congress, it stays there. It can be preserved, shared and reused freely, without even a need to attribute to the original author. Archives of public domain works are extremely valuable to...

Did you post an ad on craigslist between July 26, 2012 and August 8, 2012? If so, bad news for you. Turns out that craigslist, and not you, owns that ad. In other words, if you try to repost it to another site, you could actually be infringing craigslist's copyright....

Last week, a federal judge in Texas refused to authorize the government to hack a computer suspected of criminal use, including controlling the computer's camera. The government had sought a warrant to "surreptitiously install[] software designed not only to extract...

Just a little more than two years ago, the world witnessed the overthrow of three North African dictators and ensuing protests across much of the Arab world on television and social media, the latter of which was much lauded as a catalyzing tool. But while 2011 was a time of...

Update: The bill, S. 607, passed out of the Senate Judiciary Committee on a voice vote. It will now go to the Senate floor for a final vote on the bill.
This week a wide range of civil liberties groups and companies demanded the Senate Judiciary Committee update email...