After months of negotiations, Tom Wheeler—the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)—thinks it’s about time for consumers to be able to unlock their phones without fear of breaking the law. He made that much clear in a letter sent Thursday [pdf] to the president and CEO of CTIA,...

On Monday, the US Department of Justice will release to the public hundreds of additional pages of government documents concerning its use of Section 215 of the Patriot Act, the provision of law the NSA relies on to collect the call records of millions of Americans.
The disclosures will...

Copyright law is at a crossroads, with Congress holding hearings to talk about changes and other parts of government offering their input on what those changes should be. Yesterday, EFF and the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School sent comments to...

Censorship affects writers, journalists, and bloggers around the world, in various ways. In some cases, censorship is state-sanctioned: on books, websites, and other forms of media. Elsewhere (including in the United States), it’s self-imposed. And in many countries, writers face threats more severe than censorship of their written word,...

It’s a good day for fair use and sane copyright law. After years of litigation, Judge Denny Chin has ruled that the Google Books project does not infringe copyright. Readers, authors, librarians and future fair users can rejoice.
For years, Google has been cooperating with libraries to digitize...