People who defend today's mass surveillance tend to claim that the collected data on everybody's private communications and movements won't be abused. History tells us that they are horribly and…
One of the common areas of confusion regarding law and online privacy is the Stored Communications Act (“SCA”), 18 U.S.C. §§ 2701-2712, and how it applies to government requests for…
When we talk of privacy online, it is easy to narrow the discussion to something that can be described as "anti-wiretapping". But privacy is a much more diverse and important…
There has been a lot of talk lately about the Caribbean island nation of Antigua and its neighbor Barbados, and their recent plan to lawfully sell US copyrighted works without…
People sometimes ask if I prefer transparency over privacy, as a society can't have both. The premise is wrong. It's a sliding scale, and perfect privacy for the individual citizen…
Enactment of the Trans-Pacific Partnership ("TPP") Free Trade Agreement would, amongst other changes, attempt to harmonize the patchwork of copyright laws across the various Signatories. Activists are concerned because sections…
Angela Merkel is outraged that the United States has wiretapped her phone. However, she expresses no concern for her fellow 82 million Germans, nor for her fellow 500 million Europeans…
Throughout the western world, politicians appear keen on eliminating cash as a concept. There are many reasons on the surface - preventing armored car robberies, combating organized crime, making money…
Tracking is moving offline as computers get smarter, and face recognition technology is gaining steam rapidly with distributed systems. There are already prototype glasses that identify people in your field…
I'm currently attending a very dynamic entrepreneur conference in Barcelona, and one thing that stands out among entrepreneurs and investors is that everybody is feeling the onslaught on people's right…