- How Can the New York Times Endorse an Agreement the Public Can't Read?
- The "Largest Corporate Power Grab You've Never Heard Of"
- US patent moves are 'profoundly bad' in leaked TPP treaty—"In new agreement, Obama sides with locked phones and Big Pharma."
- Critics say U.S. is going too far to protect drug companies in trade talks
- Secret treaty leaks, Mexico wants copyright extended even more than US does—"Trans-Pacific Partnership could also threaten Aereo's entire business model."
- US wants to criminalise breaking region codes
- Secret Trade Pact Will Spread U.S. Copyright Rules Abroad
- TPP Leak Confirms the Worst: US Negotiators Still Trying to Trade Away Internet Freedoms
- The Most Nefarious Part Of The TPP Proposal: Making Copyright Reform Impossible
- In Letters to Obama, 151 House Democrats, Bloc of GOP Announce Opposition to 'Fast Track' Trade Authority
- YouTube's defeat of copyright owners is final in Premier League case
- Google wins book-scanning case: judge finds "fair use," cites many benefits
- We Must Start Punishing Copyright Monopoly Abuse To At Least Symmetry
- Copyright Extension Goes Into Effect In The UK: More Works Stolen From The Public Domain
- You can't beat politics with technology, says Pirate Bay cofounder Peter Sunde
- MPAA backs anti-piracy curriculum for elementary school students
- Super Soaker creator awarded $72.9M from Hasbro
- Lil' Kim -- Is A Creepy Skull Thief ...Says Makeup Artist
- Publishers want sites to pay for song lyrics, and they have a point
- Why creating memes is illegal in Australia
- Office Depot Sends World's Worst DMCA Notice To Reddit
- Warner Bros: Our False DMCA Takedowns Are Not a Crime
- Copyright Claim by Hammerpoint Interactive - Infestation: Survivor Stories—Bullying criticism into submission.
- Canonical "abused trademark law" to target a site critical of Ubuntu privacy—"'Fix Ubuntu' site accused of trademark violation, asked to change domain name."
- Mark Shuttleworth's response—"Last week, the less-than-a-month-at-Canonical new guy sent out the toughest template letter to the folks behind a 'sucks site.'"
- EFF: Trademark Law Does Not Require Companies To Tirelessly Censor the Internet
- Facebook defends using profile pictures for facial recognition—"Facebook has defended its plans to use profile pictures to identify members using its controversial facial recognition technology."
- Facebook Reasserts Posts Can Be Used to Advertise—"The company says it made more clear that postings and other personal data can be used in advertising on the site and reiterated that includes information from teenage users." Hide yo kids. NYT
- How Facebook gets rich leveraging personas
- Privacy Group Can Finally Start Work as Facebook Beacon Suit Ends
- Privacy Group Claims Victory in Facebook NSA Prism Spying Case
- YouTube co-founder wonders 'why the fuck' comments require a Google+ account
- YouTubers bring out the big guns in response to Google+ madness
- Backlash against Google Plus is now too big to ignore
- Shoppers' faces to be scanned in advertising push at Tesco petrol stations across the UK—Inspired by Minority Report?
- How to Opt Out of Data Tracking on Your Most-Used Sites
- Ghost in the Cloud: Dealing with data after death—Include in your wills: Delete your browser histories.
- How the global spy game is changing—"Revelations of US spying on European allies have hurt America's image abroad but won't irreparably damage transatlantic cooperation on intelligence gathering. Here's why."
- Belgium, Netherlands investigate alleged NSA spying on bank payments data
- Germany cooperated with NSA's partner firm for several years
- 'Royal Concierge': GCHQ Monitors Hotel Reservations to Track Diplomats—"Britain's GCHQ intelligence service monitors diplomats' travels using a sophisticated automated system that tracks hotel bookings. Once a room has been identified, it opens the door to a variety of spying options."
- Australia tried to monitor Indonesian president's phone—"Secret documents show Australian spies targeted the mobile calls of Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and his wife." Naturally, they're angry.
- UK: Grilling of spy chiefs 'a total pantomime'—"An unprecedented public appearance by UK spy chiefs has been labelled a 'total pantomime' after it emerged that they were told of questions in advance." The Sunday Times
- Threat from NSA leaks may have been overstated by UK, says Lord Falconer—"Ex-lord chancellor defends Guardian reporting of Snowden files and says he's sceptical of warnings from spy agency chiefs."
- In Germany, legacy of Stasi puts different perspective on NSA spying—"Decades after the fearsome secret police were disbanded, victims say Stasi did far more damage to lives." WaPo
- Gov't will notify some defendants caught by warrantless wiretaps
- Writers Especially Concerned About NSA Actions—"An organization of writers says that a large majority of its members have 'never been as worried about privacy rights and freedom of the press as they are today.'"
- Silicon Valley Nerds Seek Revenge on NSA Spies With Coding
- Linus was joking about NSA backdoor—"But such government pressure on technologists is all too possible and real." Salon
- NSA grapples with 988% increase in records requests—"The NSA will neither confirm nor deny that it has gathered information on anyone."
- Snowden effect: young people now care about privacy—"Snowden's whistleblowing prompts consumers to heed privacy settings."
