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This November 5, the “V for Vendetta” surveillance state seems more real than ever
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...
Event Video: “DC v SF: A Clash of Visions for Tech Policy”
Yesterday, we hosted an event in San Francisco on how innovators and policymakers agree and disagree on the future of technology. Moderated by Declan McCullagh (Chief Political...
Rally Against Mass Surveillance in DC, this October 26
On the weekend of October 26 — the 12th anniversary of the signing of the USA PATRIOT Act — thousands of people from across the...
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The Electronic Communications Privacy Act, or ECPA, is one of the Internet’s most outdated laws.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...
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...