In response to a GigaOM post about how attacks on WikiLeaks threaten the rights of all media entities, former New York Times executive editor Bill Keller said he agrees the organization should be protected by the First Amendment and media companies should come to its defence. Read more at GigaOM »
The EFF and Anonymous might have overblown the ramifications of the proposed Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011 — calling it SOPA 2.0 — but that doesn’t mean the bill is well-written. However, strong support means it might be hard to stop. Read more at GigaOM »
Plenty of folks have come forward to oppose the proposed merger of AT&T (NYSE: T) and T-mobile, but none of them have the clout of the merge… Read more »
Senator Al Franken (D-Minn.) is one of a group of politicians that have been making a lot of noise about digital privacy in the past several… Read more »
In the wake of several recent, headline-grabbing hacking attacks on big companies like Sony (NYSE: SNE) and Citibank, the issue of data secu… Read more »
In many ways, the series of articles about online privacy that the Wall Street Journal began publishing last year has set the tone for the p… Read more »
There are some issues that advocacy groups and big companies have come to agree on, and one is the main federal wiretapping law is in seriou… Read more »
Congress is drafting a bill to follow-up last year’s controversial COICA anti-piracy bill. A draft copy and summary of the bill have leaked… Read more »
In a hearing marked by odd points and side-tracks, representatives from Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) told a Senate committee t… Read more »
The newest batch of privacy gaffes by tech companies aren’t just resulting in lawsuits-although it’s become clear, if it wasn’t already, tha… Read more »
Several privacy bills have been or will be introduced in Congress this year, but observers are already saying the one proposed by Sens. John… Read more »
For years, privacy advocacy groups have been trying to make sure digital data has the same kinds of search and seizure protections that phys… Read more »
For the past year, both houses of Congress have been debating the creation of a law that would allow the government to block websites accuse… Read more »
The Obama administration made official its call for a comprehensive privacy law today, and there are signals that industry support for such… Read more »
Judging by today’s hearings, some members of Congress are willing to consider radical measures to rid the internet of “rogue” websites accus… Read more »
Are companies getting a fair shake in Google’s search rankings-especially ones that compete with the company’s offerings in various fields,… Read more »
Congress has been working on various versions of patent reform bills since 2005, but the U.S. Senate has finally passed a patent reform bill… Read more »
Speaking at a Silicon Valley legal conference this morning, Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-San Jose) said that the recent website shutdown by U.S. Immi… Read more »
Last month, Facebook rolled out a plan to share users’ addresses and phone numbers with third-party app developers, as long as users consent… Read more »
A year ago, if your site wasn’t using a web security protocol called HTTPS, the only folks likely to complain were tech-savvy consumer activ… Read more »
Other publications are starting to pick up The New York Times’ weekend report that former Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd is set to become th… Read more »
From the just-extended Patriot Act to warrantless wiretapping, in many ways it’s easier than ever for law enforcement agencies to engage in… Read more »
Just about every member of the the Senate Judiciary Committee seems amped up to pass some version of a controversial anti-piracy bill, the C… Read more »
Legislators in the House and the Senate are now practically falling over each other to introduce new online-privacy legislation. Congression… Read more »
The new Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives began trying to kill off the FCC’s net neutrality rules the second they got… Read more »
