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TechShutdown: How essential are the FCC & FTC, anyway?

September 30, 2013

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

September 30, 2013

The Electronic Communications Privacy Act, or ECPA, is one of the Internet’s most outdated laws.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

September 30, 2013

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

September 30, 2013

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

September 30, 2013

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

September 26, 2013

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...