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Justice Department wants to cloak partnership between Google and National Security Agency

donal brown March 15, 2012

The Justice Department has asked a federal district court to allow the government to refuse to discuss or even to acknowledge the existence of any cooperation between Google and the National Security Agency. The Electronic Privacy Information Center is suing under  the Freedom of Information Act to obtain documents with details of the relationship. -db From The National Law Journal, March 13, 2012, by Mike Scarcella. Full story  

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Iran intensifies attacks on Internet traffic

donal brown February 13, 2012

Using the Internet can be dangerous in Iran and recently the government has increasingly blocked and filtered traffic. The measure are thought to be part of a process of moving to a national Halal Internet excluding the world-wide net, blocking all foreign sites and restricting users to state-approved content. -db From a commentary for the Electronic Freedom Foundation, February 11, 2012, by Eva Galperin. Full story

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The Powerful anti-SOPA protests show why corporations, too, need First Amendment rights

Peter Scheer January 20, 2012

BY PETER SCHEER—Successful technology firms pride themselves on their capacity to disrupt the established order. The reference is usually to a technological advance that poses an existential threat to an entrenched industry or way of doing business. Think of Apple Computer’s impact on the cellphone and music industries, Google on the sale and delivery of advertising, or Amazon on book publishing–to name just a few. But in their recent protests against anti-piracy legislation pending in

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Google finds cause in Righthaven appeal

donal brown January 17, 2012

Google has filed an amicus brief in the appeal of a Righthaven case to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals arguing for flexibility in applying the fair use doctrine. The case under appeal pitted Righthaven against the Center for Intercultural Organizing over the Center’s posting of a Las Vegas Review-Journal article. -db From the Courthouse News Service, January 16, 2012, by Maria Dinzeo. Full story  

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Opinion: EFF refutes arguments for online piracy legislation

donal brown December 13, 2011

The Electronic Freedom Foundation takes on what it says are distortions of the positions taken by those opposing the online piracy legislation recently introduced in both houses of Congress. While acknowledging that the tech industry recognizes the importance of copyright as it applies to the Internet, writes Trevor Timm for EFF, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act already allows copyright holders to direct websites to remove copyrighted content. The new legislation overreaches, says Timm, adversely affecting

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