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China Strangles Tor Ahead of National Day
Real-LIfe Distributed-Snooping Web Game To Launch In Britain
Blogger Loses Unemployment Check Because of Ads
CIA Invests In Firm That Datamines Social Networks
FBI Investigates Liberator of Court Records
Feds Bust Cable Modem Hacker
Mac OS X 10.6.2 Will Block Atom Processors
Patent Claim Could Block Import of Toyota's Hybrid Cars
WIPO Commitee Presentations Show Nuanced View of Copyright
Secret Copyright Treaty Leaks. It's Bad. Very Bad.
Universal Disk Encryption Spec Finalized
GPL Wins In French Court Case
Iranian Government Cuts Off Internet Access Again
Should I Publish Or Patent?
TI vs. Calculator Hackers
Torrents Being Honey Potted
Wireless Network Modded To See Through Walls
CRTC Issues Net Neutrality Rules
Details On Worldwide Surveillance and Filtering
Ministry of Defense's "How To Stop Leaks" Document Is Leaked
Wi-Fi Patent Victory Earns CSIRO $200 Million
1,600 Names Suggested Daily For FBI's Watch List
100 Years of Copyright Hysteria
3D Fingerprinting — Touchless, More Accurate, and Faster
Anonymous Browsing On Android Phones Using Tor
Apple, Others Hit With Lawsuit On Ethernet Patents
Democrats, Minority Groups Question Net Neutrality Push
Eolas To Sue Apple, Google, and 21 Others
Sequoia To Publish Source Code For Voting Machines
uTorrent To Build In Transfer-Throttling Ability
Dashboard Reveals What Google Knows About You
$2,000 Bribe Bought Password To DC P.O. System
Accused Killer Asks For Online Media Users' IDs
Americans Don't Want Targeted Ads
Anonymous Browsing On Android Phones Using Tor
Anti-Counterfeiting Deal Aims For Global DMCA
Canadian Hate-Speech Law Violates Charter of Rights
Canadian ISPs Fight Back, Again
Canadian Minister Lies On Net Surveillance Claims
Chinese Schools Ax Green Dam Censorship Software
Church of Scientology Proposes Net Censorship In Australia
Comcast's New Throttling Plan Uses Trigger Conditions, Not Silent Blocking
Congress Mulls Research Into a Vehicle Mileage Tax
Corporations Now Have a Right To "Personal Privacy"
DHS Wants To Hire 1,000 Cybersecurity Experts
Demo of EU's Planned "INDECT" Hints At Massive Data Mining, Little Privacy
Developer Exposes Copyright Infringers On Twitter
Disney Close To Unveiling New "DVD Killer"
DoJ Recommends NY Court Reject Google Book Deal
Dutch Gov't Has No Idea How To Delete Tapped Calls
EFF Warns TI Not To Harass Calculator Hobbyists
ES&S To Buy Diebold, Blackbox Voting To Sue
EU Funding "Orwellian" Artificial Intelligence Snooping System
Emergency Government Control of the Internet?
FTC Rules Outlawing Robocalls Go Into Effect Next Week
FTC States Bloggers Must Disclose Paid Reviews
Federal Judge Says E-mail Not Protected By 4th Amendment
French Deputies Want Labels On Photo-Altered Models
French President Violates His Own Copyright Law, Again
Gilmore Loses Airport ID Case
High-Tech Gadgets Can Pose Problems At Mexican Border
House Committee Passes "Informed P2P User Act"
Internet Probably Couldn't Handle a Flu Pandemic
Japanese Ruling Against Winny Dev Overturned On Appeal
Judge Won't Lower $5M Bail For Jailed SF IT Admin
Lawsuit Against Patented Human Genes Advances
Lawsuit Claims WGA Is Spyware
Lori Drew Cyberbullying Case Dismissed
Lulu Introduces DRM
MIT Project "Gaydar" Shakes Privacy Assumptions
MPAA Pushes Once Again To Close the Analog Hole
Malaysia Seeking to Copyright Food?
Microsoft Files Suits Against "Malvertisers"
Microsoft Letting Patents Move To Linux Firms
Musicians Oppose Anti-Piracy Measures In the UK
National Data Breach Law Advances
New "JUSTICE" Act Could Roll Back Telecom Immunity
New Threats Against Pirate Bay Owners
Nokia Sues Apple For Patent Infringement In iPhone
Pirate Party Unites In Australia
Playstation Network Gets Revised, More Restrictive ToS
Professor Wins $240K In Fair Use Dispute
Published Google Docs To Appear In Search Engines
RIAA's Elementary School Copyright Curriculum
Red Hat Files Amicus Brief In Bilski Patent Case
Relaunched Recovery.gov Fails Accessibility Standards
SFLC Tells SCOTUS, "Software Patents Are Unjust"
Scientists Decry "Horrifying" UK Border Test Plan
Senate To Reconsider Wiretap Immunity
Sequoia Voting Systems Source Code Released
Spring Design Sues Barnes & Noble Over Nook IP
Texas Teen Arrested Under New Online Harassment Law
Toyota Claims Woman "Opted In" To Faux Email Stalking
Twitter Says Your Tweets Belong To You
UK Law Enforcement Is Against "3-Strikes"
WARF and Intel Settle Patent Suit Over Core 2 Duo
Wikileaks Plans To Make the Web Leakier
iPod Fee Proposed For Canada
Walmart Caves On DRM Removal
Canadian Court Rules "Hyperlink" Is Not Defamation
Australian Judge Rules Simpsons Cartoon Rip-off Is Child Porn
Whistleblower Claims NSA Spied On Everyone, Targeted Media
Bill Would Outlaw Digital Receiver Recorders
Conviction of Sen. Ted Stevens Is Thrown Out
UK Court Rejects Encryption Key Disclosure Defense
Ted "A Series of Tubes" Stevens Found Guilty
India Joins China in Censoring Websites
Student Faces Expulsion for Blog Post
More Details of the NSA's Social Network Analysis
Judge Rules Fox Has Copyright Claim To Watchmen
Apple Defeats RIAA and France In Same Day
Gonzales Says Publishing Leaks Is A Crime
After Columbine, Eric Holder Advocated Internet "Restrictions"
Google Profiling Social Network Users
Gov't Computers Used to Find Info on "Joe the Plumber"
China Bans Running Your Own Email Server
BPI Sue AllOfMp3 In British Courts
Copyright Protection Business Model Expands, Plagiarizes Others
Maryland Police Put Activists' Names On Terror List
The Pirate Bay Is Back Online
20 Hours a Month Reading Privacy Policies
Two-Tier Internet & The End of Freedom of Speech
US District Court Says Calculating a Hash Value = Search
Steve Jobs Patents "The Dock"
Eric Schmidt on Net Neutrality
New Congressional Bill Makes DMCA Look Tame
Homeland Security Changes Laptop Search Policy
Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad.
ACLU Creates Map of US "Constitution-Free Zone"
Student Suspended Over IM Icon
Maker of Anti-Clinton Video Outed, Loses Job
DRM and Democracy
Google, Apple, Microsoft Sued Over File Preview
New "MP3 100% Compatible" Logo For DRM-Free Music
State Trooper Fights For His Source Code
Busting People for Pointing Out Security Flaws
Man Arrested For Taking Photo of Open ATM
Tech Giants In Human Rights Deal
Greek Blog Aggregator Arrested
Wiretapping Program Ruled Legal
Names of Advisors Cleared To Access ACTA Documents
Illinois Bill Would Ban Social Networking Sites
Judge Suppresses Report On Voting Systems
Microsoft Patents the Censoring of Speech
Report Claims 95% of Music Downloads Are Illegal
Browser Privacy Test
EEStor Issued a Patent For Its Supercapacitor
EU Strikes Down French "3 Strikes" Copyright Infringement Law
Michael Robertson Sued Over Missing Linspire Cash
Every Email In UK To Be Monitored
A Linux-Based "Breath Test" For Porn On PCs
IWF Backs Down On Wiki Censorship
RIAA Litigation May Be Unconstitutional
EFF Gets Animated About DRM with The Corruptibles
EU Patent Wars to Resume
U.K. Group Wants DRM'd Media Labeled
AU Classification Board To Censor Mobile Apps
ISP Emails Customer Database To Thousands
Facebook Nudity Policy Draws Nursing Moms' Ire
Concerns About ACTA In EU, Canada
Mozilla Labs Wants To Monitor (Volunteers') Firefox Use
McCain Campaign Protests YouTube's DMCA Policy
Cambridge, Mass. Moves To Nix Security Cameras
China To Photograph All Internet Cafe Customers
Studios' Oz Power-Grab Revealed
New Patent on TV Forces You to Watch Ads
MySpace Verdict a Danger To Depressed Kids
MySpace and GoDaddy Shut Down Security Site
Verizon Exposes the Wrong 1,200 Email Addresses
Obama Administration Defends Warrantless Wiretapping
UK Government Says More Spying Needed
Latest World of Warcraft Expansion Blocked In China
Senate Votes To Empower Parents As Censors
RIAA Caught in Tough Legal Situation
$125 Million Settlement In Authors Guild v. Google
Is Apple's Multi-Touch Patent Valid?
Restrictions On Social Sites Proposed In Georgia
LimeWire Sues RIAA for Antitrust Violations
Canon Tries To Shut Down "Fake" Canon Blog
17,000 Downloads Does Not Equal 17,000 Lost Sales
Network Neutrality Threatened In Norway
ASCII Art Steganography
Gov't Database Errors Leading To Unconstitutional Searches?
Why YouTube Needs the Rights to Your Video
Has Microsoft's Patent War Against Linux Begun?
Boston Bans Boing Boing From City Wi-Fi
Lawsuit Between Apple and Psystar Moves Toward Settlement
Irish GSM Providers Asked to Track Users' Web Use
US State Sues Web/SEO Firm For Deceiving Mom-and-Pops
Judge Orders White House To Produce Wiretap Memos
Internet Curfew for College Students?
Columnist Fired For Reviewing Pirated Movie
Clinton, Lieberman Propose CDC Investigate Games
Paul McCartney Releases Album As DRM-Free Download
UK To Mull High Video Game Taxes — To Fight Knife Crime
RIAA MediaSentry, Dead In US, Is Alive In Australia
Homeland Security Okays Closed Proceedings
Copyright and Patent Laws Hurt the Economy
UK ISPs Are Censoring Wikipedia
State of Ohio Establishes "Pre-Crime" Registry