How Congress’s Extension of Section 702 May Expand the NSA’s Warrantless Surveillance Authority By David Ruiz Last month, Congress reauthorized Section 702, the controversial law the NSA uses to conduct some of its most invasive electronic surveillance. With Section 702 set to expire, Congress had…
UK Court Delivers Blow to Mass Surveillance State, Win for Privacy Advocates By Josiah Wilmoth A UK court has dealt a winning hand to privacy advocates — and a blow to the mass surveillance state — through its ruling on the controversial Data Retention and…
Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights (12/21): Our parents bought things untracked, their footsteps in store weren’t recorded By Rick Falkvinge In the last article, we focused on how people are tracked today when using credit cards instead of cash. But few pay attention to the fact…
Nation-State Hacking: 2017 in Review By Eva Galperin If 2016 was the year government hacking went mainstream, 2017 is the year government hacking played the Super Bowl halftime show. It’s not Fancy Bear and Cozy Bear making headlines. This week, the Trump administration publicly attributed…
The Year the Open Internet Came Under Siege: 2017 Year in Review By Ernesto Falcon The fight between the Federal Communications Commission’s choice to abandon the principles of net neutrality and the majority of Americans started early in 2017 and continued into the very last…
DRM’s Dead Canary: How We Just Lost the Web, What We Learned from It, and What We Need to Do Next By Cory Doctorow EFF has been fighting against DRM and the laws behind it for a decade and a half, intervening in the US…
Appeals Court’s Disturbing Ruling Jeopardizes Protections for Anonymous Speakers By sophia A federal appeals court has issued an alarming ruling that significantly erodes the Constitution’s protections for anonymous speakers—and simultaneously hands law enforcement a near unlimited power to unmask them. The Ninth Circuit’s decision in…
Suspending the Catalan Parliament, Spain Destroys the EU’s “Rule of Law” Figleaf. By craig It takes a very special kind of chutzpah systematically to assault voters, and drag them from polling booths by their hair, and then say that a low turnout invalidates the vote….
The killing of history By Reporting from New York, John Pilger describes the re-writing of the history of the Vietnam War in the 10-part television series by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. Millions died "in good faith", they say. And so yet more wars are…
I Have Nothing to Hide – Really? Here’s why privacy matters to all of us By Arne Möhle The statement “I have nothing to hide” is very popular. But recently reversing this statement has also become very popular: “Give me your bank account login, your…