Right now, there is a debate about a small section of the Patriot Act in the U.S., and which option best removes the authorization from the U.S. NSA to wiretap…
This week, new invasive spying bills passed in Canada and in France. Both of them, as usual, go beyond what has been seen before in their audacity. But a private…
A High Court in the UK has ordered several entire sites censored, at the request of the copyright industry, because they link to the Popcorn Time application. This is an…
This year, U.S. laws used to justify mass surveillance are set to expire, but the U.S. Congress will renew those laws unless overwhelmingly told to let mass surveillance die on…
News are trickling out from Down Under - from NZ to be precise, not Australia - that the copyright industry is threatening to sue Internet Service Providers who offer geoblock…
Many legislators and surveillance hawks are framing an extensive real-time bulk wiretapping of the Internet as "just an adaptation to new technology", and try to pretend it doesn't mean anything…
Four pieces of news in the past week show just how little the lawmakers and courts continue to understand of the Internet: Australia introduced Data Retention, Spain ordered The Pirate…
The Swedish Tax Authority has demanded the full customer transaction history, specifically including customers' wallet addresses, from the small Swedish bitcoin exchange BTC-X. This demand comes without any individual suspicion…
Apparently, the FCC's version of net neutrality really does contain a gaping hole for anything copyright-monopoly-related. The little qualifier "lawful" in the sentence that "all lawful traffic must be treated…
A French court has ruled that a challenge to Facebook's terms of service under French law may go ahead in a French court. A man had had his account suspended…