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What’s So Bad About ECPA?

December 2, 2013

ECPA is the law that is supposed to protect your digital data from unreasonable search. What’s wrong with it? Tons. What does that mean? Your...


Google Transparency Report Reveals More Demands for Data, Less Judicial Oversight

November 15, 2013

Yesterday, Google released its Transparency Report confirming what we already assumed: the government is demanding more personal data and using fewer formal requests. Since 2009, requests for Google...


Bush’s Commerce Secretary blasts NSA spying as hurting US IP owners worldwide

November 8, 2013

This morning, at the Chamber of Commerce’s Global IP Summit, Carlos Gutierrez warned that U.S. companies trying to enforce their copyrights, patents and trademarks in countries...


This November 5, the “V for Vendetta” surveillance state seems more real than ever

November 5, 2013

V for Vendetta depicted a world of total surveillance. Government agents roamed the streets in spy vans, listening in on everyone from average citizens to the...


DC v SF: A Clash of Visions for Tech Policy

October 25, 2013

How do DC and SF think about the future? Are their visions of how to promote, and adapt to, technological change compatible? Or are America’s...


DC v. SF: A Clash of Visions for Tech Policy

October 18, 2013

How do DC and SF think about the future? Are their visions of how to promote, and adapt to, technological change compatible? Or are America’s...