One year ago today, the 100,000th person added their name to a public petition calling on President Obama to categorically reject any attempt to add backdoors to our devices or otherwise undermine encryption.
Since then, crickets.
Obama has promised to reply to petitions on his We...

The Obama administration promised privacy protections for foreigners abroad, but PPD-28 fails to deliver those protections
In early 2014, still reeling from global outrage over recently uncovered surveillance programs, President Barack Obama pledged to rein in the U.S. government’s spying and boost privacy protections for people in the U.S....

The Washington Post recently reported on Facebook’s plans to introduce its international Free Basics app to American users. We have written about the problems with Free Basics before, and we are disappointed that Facebook might be trying to repackage this controversial international program as a solution for domestic...

The Patriot Act turns 15 today, but that’s nothing to celebrate.
Since President George W. Bush signed this bill into law on October 26, 2001, the Patriot Act has been ardently defended by its supporters in the intelligence community and harshly criticized by members of Congress, the tech industry,...

Months of aggressive lobbying by the MPAA and its allies at the Copyright Office gave them the result they desired
Update: a timeline of events based on the Copyright Office e-mails is here.
In the current debate over cable set-top box competition, content and cable industries worked...