Clik here to view.
EMI asks court to bar EFF amicus brief
UK record label EMI has asked a federal judge in New York to bar the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) from filing an amicus curiae brief in the record label’s lawsuit against MP3tunes. Amicus...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Who needs COICA?
Who needs the Combating Online Infringements and Counterfeits Act (COICA)? Not the US government, that’s for sure. This week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a division of the US Department...
View ArticleClik here to view.
WikiLeaks’ brief affair with Amazon
WikiLeaks dropped its latest information bomb earlier this week and almost immediately its website was subject to a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. WikiLeaks responded by moving its...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The blotter: Week ending 30 January 2011
BusinessStill using Facebook? Really? The social network is going to start adding your “likes” and “check-ins” to advertisements in users’ news feeds. And it’s not optional, according to Irina Slutsky...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The blotter: Week ending 20 February 2011
InternetJon Udell’s “Seven ways to think like the web” is a stunning exploration into making the best possible use of the distributed hypermedia system that is the web. Udell’s outline for working...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The blotter: Week ending 1 May 2011
BusinessThe US Supreme Court has ruled (.pdf; 258KB) that corporations can use contracts that include a clause forbidding customers from forming groups for class-action lawsuits and group arbitration....
View ArticleClik here to view.
The blotter: Week ending 19 June 2011
CensorshipThe third US Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that public schools can discipline students for their off-campus, online speech (.pdf; 434KB), but may not go as far as suspending a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The blotter: Week ending 26 June 2011
CensorshipThe Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed an amicus brief (.pdf; 123KB) in the case of two domain names seized by the US government in a flawed anti-infringement action on behalf of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Internet service providers to shill for entertainment cartel
For years the entertainment cartel has been nipping at the heels of the large internet service providers (ISPs) — AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Verizon — to join in their war...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The blotter: Week ending 7 August 2011
BusinessChristina Larson, writing for Foreign Policy, has a devastating take-down of Apple’s operations in China, specifically the company’s indifference to “labor rights and environmental...
View ArticleClik here to view.
UK prime minister abandons free speech
UK Prime Minister David Cameron is investigating the merits of stopping social media communication of individuals known to be planning criminal activity. As Cameron told the UK House of Commons...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The blotter: Week ending 4 September 2011
BusinessRichard Florida calls it the Great Reset. Others call it Freelance Nation and the Gig Economy. Sara Horowitz, writing for the Atlantic, calls it the industrial revolution of our time. It’s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A misguided decade of the Patriot Act
Last month the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA Patriot) Act turned 10 years old. In those 10 years, it’s abundantly...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Not a good time to be a secretive spook
Louis Brandeis is remembered for many things, not the least of which is for writing “sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants” in a 20 December 1913 Harper’s Weekly article. As a culture, it’s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Beware the entertainment cartel’s TPP
The US-based entertainment cartel is hell-bent on putting the internet genie back in its bottle, regardless of cost and consequences — intentional and unintentional. Its latest weapon of choice to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
US Justice Department on warrantless wiretapping: Heads we win; tails they lose
For the last 12 years — and into the foreseeable future — the US government has vigorously avoided any court determination regarding its warrantless wiretapping program. The warrantless wiretapping...
View ArticleClik here to view.
US Supreme Court declines to review warrantless wiretapping dismissal
For six years the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) fought a good legal battle to bring the US telecommunications giants to justice for allegedly providing backdoors to their networks allowing the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
EFF and ACLU submit amicus brief on Stingray
Earlier this month, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) submitted a joint amicus brief (.pdf; 569KB) in United States v. Rigmaiden, a case revolving...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Wyden to remove hold on FISA Amendments Act
The US government’s warrantless wiretapping program — initially implemented by the George W. Bush administration shortly after the 2011 terrorist attacks and continued by the Barack Obama...
View ArticleClik here to view.
US entertainment cartel gets a pimp
The US entertainment cartel has finally found a pimp, however inadequte it may be: Your internet service provider. After more than four years of navel-gazing and arm twisting, the Copyright Alert...
View Article
