- New Law Criminalizing Online Student Speech Takes Effect Dec. 1
- China arrests blogger for Twitter joke
- Court bans Pussy Riot video clips
- New York Times parody account restored to Twitter after outcry
- The Internet's most hated lawyer finally gets served in free speech lawsuit--"For months, Charles Carreon has delayed case brought by 'Satirical Charles.'"
- How Ordinary Chinese Are Talking And Fighting Back--"Weibo, China's equivalent of Twitter, is changing the way the Chinese communicate and has become a major source of news. Its more than 300 million users are, among other things, using it to criticize government policies, stop official injustice and help ordinary people — but only up to a point."
- Cop Protects First Amendment of Journalist Against Airport Official.
- Raided for running a Tor exit - Accepting donations for legal expenses
- Email Privacy Bill On Hold Till 2013--The Senate Panel has passed it but it's won't be up for a full vote yet.
- Why email is and must remain private--"Private communication, if monitored, will damage trust between individuals, making it harder to form relationships."
- Britons! Stop the Snoopers' Charter, end the government's spying plan!
- Citing hunt for pedophiles, Dutch government to make refusing to help decrypt computer a crime
- Jones Meant What it Said: EFF Urges Court to Stop Warrantless GPS Tracking
- Long Island cops probe how secret information became NYC confetti
- Does Using Certain Privacy Tools Expose You to Warrantless NSA Surveillance? ACLU Files FOIA to Find Out
- New data on privacy policies shows 20 percent of sites may sell data
- Please stop posting that fake Facebook privacy notice--Even Facebook calls it shit. Salon
- U.K. student strikes deal to avoid extradition in copyright case--"Richard O'Dwyer of TV-Shack fame will not be extradited to the United States to face copyright infringement charges, and will pay compensation instead."
- Members Of The Republican Study Committee Do Twitter Q&A, Ignore Every Single Question About Fixing Copyright
- "Six strikes" copyright enforcement postponed until 2013
- Verizon and Time Warner will throttle speeds and limit browsing under new Copyright Alert System
- Police Raid 9-Year-Old Pirate Bay Girl, Confiscate Winnie The Pooh Laptop--This has the makings of a PR nightmare.
- Canadian Copyright Reform In Force: Expanded User Rights Now the Law
- Canada prepares for crackdown on BitTorrent movie pirates
- Why Liability Is Limited: A Primer on New Copyright Damages as File Sharing Lawsuits Head To Canada
- DRM error causes problems for legitimate Game Maker users--"Popular development tool overwrites user-made assets with a skull and crossbones."
- Barnes & Noble Decides That Purchased Ebooks Are Only Yours Until Your Credit Card Expires
- When a mouse requires an internet connection, you're doing the "cloud" wrong
- Bad Connections: It's time — once again — to bust up the telecom trusts--"The result of having such sweeping control of the communications terrain, naturally, is that there is little incentive for either player to lower prices, make improvements to service or significantly invest in new technologies and infrastructure. And that, in turn, leaves American consumers with a major disadvantage compared with their counterparts in the rest of the world." NYT
- Free Market Failure: Telcos Charge More For Sending A Text Next Door Than Cost Of Sending Data From Mars
- Consumer Reports carrier rankings 2012: AT&T worst, Verizon best
- Dear Google Fiber: Please, please, please come to Boston and rescue me from Comcast--More and more people are realizing they've been bamboozled into paying more for bad service.
- BT website lets anyone upgrade your phone package
- Google promotes Speak2Tweet initiative to give disconnected Syrians a voice online
- Australia: Google Must Pay For Libelous Search Result, Says Court
- Google won't be prosecuted over Street View in Germany
- Google's 'Defend your Net' campaign asks Germans to resist copyright changes
- Trolling Android app reviews now requires your real name--I have got to wean myself off the Google eco-system.
- 'Anonymous' turns in hacker who targeted children's charity
- What Happens When You Taunt 4Chan: The Story of Lacey Vicich
- Vigilantism and hate-shaming on the web – who’s the bully?