The maintainer of GoAgent, one of China's more popular censorship circumvention tools emptied out the project's main source code repositories on Tuesday. Phus Lu, the developer, renamed the repository’s description to “Everything that has a beginning has an end”. Phus Lu’s Twitter account's historywas also deleted, except for...

The stash of previously-secret correspondence about the Trade In Services Agreement (TISA) that EFF obtained and published this week speaks volumes about the extent to which technology companies such as IBM and Google, and trade lobby groups such as the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) and Internet Digital...

This weekend, tens of thousands of ordinary Malaysians will flood into the cities of Kuala Lumpur, Kota Kinabalu and Kuching, with satellite events held in solidarity around the world, to call for the resignation of Prime Minister Najib Razak. The rally, organized by Bersih 2.0, a non-partisan coalition...

In the wake of the Supreme Court’s June 2014 decision in Alice v. CLS Bank, most courts have been quickly and efficiently getting rid of patents that improperly claim “abstract ideas.” In Alice, the Supreme Court held that “abstract ideas,” without more, were unpatentable under 35 U.S.C. § 101....

Sometimes bad things get even worse.
The news out of Washington is that when Congress comes back into session in September, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse will try to add some bad Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) amendments onto the already awful cybersecurity...

As officials assert the legitimacy of using secretive trade negotiations to decide a wide range of Internet policies, multinational corporations have been more than thrilled to take advantage of this opaque process to get their wish list of policies through the backdoor. And it's easy to observe the effects of...