The latest high profile free speech fight isn’t over a book, a movie or even a video game. Instead, the court case is over a corporate report, and has led media companies to… Read more »
It’s been a lousy week so far for opponents of U.S. spy tactics: a federal judge shut down a long-running challenge to the NSA’s mass collection of customer internet data, while President Obama brushed off… Read more »
A civil liberties group has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Marshals Service, demanding more information about a controversial surveillance tactic involving airplanes that fly over urban areas in order to sweep up… Read more »
Left Shark rose to internet super-stardom by doing his own thing — and now a man selling models of the Super Bowl shark is doing the same, bucking the Katy Perry lawyer who wants… Read more »
Warrant canaries die quietly so their passing can escape notice. But that’s less likely to happen now thanks to “Canary Watch,” a new website that tracks the health of warrant canaries used by tech firms and… Read more »
The FCC is on the cusp of proposing new rules for the internet, and it may have a chance to kill two birds with one stone: along with preserving so-called “net neutrality,” the… Read more »
The ongoing uproar over the ethically challenged Uber has brought about calls to delete the service. And to my surprise, some people are actually doing this: I’ve already seen a few… Read more »
Can companies like Oracle exert copyright over basic software instructions? A new petition from leading computer scientists makes it more likely the Supreme Court will hear an appeal of a decision… Read more »
The Supreme Court’s ruling this summer over cell phone warrants may have been the beginning, not the end, of the debate over police power to access our devices — as a… Read more »
When it comes to balancing creative rights on the internet, companies like Twitter and Pinterest play an important role as middlemen. How are they performing? Read more »