Today, the federal District Court for the District of Columbia held that the NSA's bulk telephone metadata collection program under the USA PATRIOT Act viol…
"Those who object to the cameras don't do so solely on the grounds of an unproven safety record. Woodrow Hartzog, a law professor at the Cumberland Sch…
"Aleecia McDonald, director of privacy at the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society, said the notice and choice concept failed. McDonald said…
Cross-posted from Forbes. In the wake of today’s tremendously important ruling by the District Court for the District of Columbia that bulk collection of telep…
Daniel Nazer of Electronic Frontier Foundation on the Supreme Court case that could set patent precedent. Full story can also be found here.…
""There is no one law in the United States that mandates that websites and phone applications have good data security," says law professor Woodro…
"“If the NSA were to mistakenly classify domestic servers as outside the United States, even at low rates, it would acquire a substantial amount of purely…
Cross-posted from Slate. By Edward Felten and Jonathan Mayer Snooping on the Internet is tricky. The network is diffuse, global, and packed with potential tar…
"Michelle Richardson, the ACLU’s surveillance lobbyist, said the organization would wait for a public release of the report to evaluate its merits, but sai…
"“Nothing short of stopping the mass, suspicionless surveillance of Americans is acceptable,” said Michelle Richardson, legislative counsel at the ACLU’s W…
"“There’s a lot of these really broad, abstract patents where the only concrete thing is `do it on a processor, or do it on a computer, or do it on the Int…
"Forty states have laws addressing cyber-harassment, according to a tally by the National Conference of State Legislatures, which make it illegal to intent…