Recent Posts
TechShutdown: How essential are the FCC & FTC, anyway?
With the government shutdown looming, it’s time to play DC’s new favorite game: Who’s an “essential” government employee? When it comes to tech, the two...
TechFreedom Joins Coalition to Reform ECPA
The Electronic Communications Privacy Act, or ECPA, is one of the Internet’s most outdated laws. It says hundreds of federal entities, including the IRS and...
Listen: TechFreedom Debates Broadband Deployment with Susan Crawford
Two of TechFreedom’s top experts recently appeared on WCPN’s The Sound of Ideas to discuss broadband deployment with law professor Susan Crawford (who we’ve disagreed with in the...
Live now: We need a new privacy act to replace ECPA, argues Prof. Orin Kerr
Prof. Kerr is explaining his law review article “The Next Generation Privacy Act” at the Library of Congress. Kerr, the man who literally wrote the DOJ manual...
Congress, Allow Companies to Publish Information About Government Requests for User Data
Today, TechFreedom joined with over 70 companies and nonprofit organizations to voice support for two important bills that would allow companies to publish statistics about government...
Now in its 100th year, the FTC has become the Federal Technology Commission
Today marks the 99th anniversary of the Federal Trade Commission Act, which will be commemorated tomorrow by FTC Commissioner Maureen Ohlhausen in an public address...