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Article | 20/05/2013 After two-year hiatus, EFF accepts bitcoin donations again
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has resumed accepting bitcoins donations, saying some of the legal ambiguity around the virtual currency has disapp...
Article | 10/05/2013 Appeals court ruling could be 'death' of software patents
A U.S. appeals court has ruled that an abstract idea is not patentable simply because it is tied to a computer system, signaling what one judge descri...
Article | 17/04/2013 CISPA sponsor compares opponents to 14-year-olds
The chief sponsor of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) in the U.S. Congress has ignited a Twitter storm by suggesting many opp...
Article | 3/04/2013 Privacy group calls for changes in CISPA cyberthreat sharing bill
U.S. lawmakers need to make significant changes to a controversial cyberthreat information sharing bill because the legislation could be used to give ...
Article | 21/03/2013 Bills would require police to get warrants for mobile phone location
A group of U.S. lawmakers has introduced legislation that would require law enforcement agencies to get court-ordered search warrants before obtaining...
Article | 6/03/2013 Activist launches campaign to change the DMCA
The author of a successful White House petition calling on government officials to legalize the unlocking of mobile phones has turned his attention to...
Article | 28/02/2013 Tech groups call on Congress to battle patent trolls
So-called patent trolls force tech companies to spend money on lawyers instead of innovation, and the U.S. Congress needs to discourage infringement l...
Article | 4/02/2013 NGOs warn of US lobbying efforts against European privacy legislation
Top U.S. officials will be warned in a letter Monday of an intense U.S. lobbying effort that seeks to weaken European privacy legislation.
Article | 29/01/2013 Phone unlocking services face new legal risk, EFF says
U.S. phone unlocking services face the biggest legal risk from mobile operators keen to enforce a change in copyright law that now makes it illegal to...
Article | 24/01/2013 Groups raise questions about privacy on Skype
Skype owner Microsoft should release information about how much user data it gives to third parties, including government agencies, several organisati...
Article | 8/01/2013 Privacy advocates welcome Yahoo Mail HTTPS roll-out
Digital rights and privacy advocates have welcomed Yahoo's decision to provide its users with an option to enable HTTPS (HTTP Secure) for their entire...
Article | 20/11/2012 Facebook to roll out HTTPS by default to all users
Facebook started encrypting the connections of its North American users by default last week as part of a plan to roll out always-on HTTPS (Hypertext ...
Article | 8/11/2012 Court blocks temporarily California's disclosure rules for sex offenders
A federal court in the U.S. on Wednesday temporarily restrained law officials in California from enforcing new provisions that allegedly violate the f...
Article | 7/11/2012 ACLU, EFF challenge law targeting online activities of sex offenders
Two civil rights groups have filed a lawsuit challenging parts of a California ballot measure that requires registered sex offenders to turn over thei...
Article | 31/10/2012 DOJ: Hearing on Megaupload stored data should be limited
A U.S. judge should limit the scope of a proposed court hearing examining whether a former Megaupload user can recover files that were on the website ...

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