Today, EFF—along with Engine, the App Developers Alliance, and Public Knowledge—filed a brief asking the Supreme Court to retain some sanity in the law and tighten up the rules around fee shifting. Fee shifting, sometimes called "loser pays," is already in the Patent Act. While the...

Patent reform is moving along nicely on Capitol Hill, but today we got some more really big news. The Supreme Court has agreed to take on the question of patentable subject matter. Specifically, it's time to talk about software patents.
A brief refresher: under the law, one cannot...

Hoy, el Congreso Mexicano adoptó - por primera vez en la historia de este país - un Código Nacional de Procedimientos Penales que incluye disposiciones relacionadas a la vigilancia de las comunicaciones. Si bien hubo amplia participación en el proceso legislativo por parte de la sociedad civil mexicana (quienes a...

Privacy is due for an upgrade. Today, the Electronic Frontier Foundation joins a nationwide day of action calling for reform of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), the 1986 law used by the government to access your online documents, messages, and emails stored in the cloud without a warrant.
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