- Internet users cannot be sued for browsing the web, ECJ rules—"After a five-year case, the European court of justice has ruled that copies of web pages made in the course of browsing the internet do not infringe copyright law."
- YouTube's free speech problem—"YouTube users are finding that the site's policies are ripe for misuse."
- Rightscorp: a business founded on threats of Internet disconnection
- MPAA: Consumer Right to Resell Online Videos Would Kill Innovation
- 'Popcorn Time' Gives Users Anonymity With a Free Built-In VPN
- Kim Dotcom offers £3m bounty in online piracy case—"Megaupload founder in bid to prove US authorities aided by New Zealand illegally targeted him at behest of Hollywood studios."
- John Oliver's Hilarious Net Neutrality Piece Speaks the Truth
- Cable Companies Are Astroturfing Fake Consumer Support to End Net Neutrality
- Op-Eds In Favor Of Cable Company F*ckery Are Bought & Paid For By Cable Industry
- AT&T: We'd never implement Internet fast lanes, just trust us!
- Netflix Lets People Know When Bad Streaming Is the ISP's Fault—Verizon tells Netflix to cease and desist which they eventually do.
- 'A soup of misery': Over half of people say they'd abandon their cable company, if only they could WaPo
- Broadband shouldn't be like cable TV. Why consumers should care about peering.
- Hundreds of Cities Are Wired With Fiber—But Telecom Lobbying Keeps It Unused
- Sonic.net CEO: Tiered Pricing 'Doesn't Make Sense'
- Comcast charged $2,000 for alarm system that didn't work—for 7 years—"Cable company initially blamed customer, then grudgingly issued refund."
- Why Does U.S. Cell Phone Service Stink?
- As Internet behemoths rise, Chattanooga highlights a different path
- Europe to force Google, Facebook to abide by EU privacy rules
- Users slam 'creepy' new feature that allows Facebook to listen in
- Woman Sues After STD Diagnosis Posted on Facebook
- Hiding from big data—"IT security: With the increasing commercial use of personal data and multiple security breaches, will people pay for privacy?" The Economist
- Cory Doctorow: Those who have nothing to hide have a duty to protect the privacy of those who do
- Judge: NSA doesn't have to keep all data as part of key surveillance lawsuit—"Gov't counsel: Forcing us to save Section 702 data would harm national security."
- James Clapper Admits What Everyone's Been Saying For Months: Snowden Didn't Take 1.7 Million Documents
- If The NSA Can't Keep Call Records, Should Phone Companies Do It?
- How the NSA plans to prevent another Snowden—"New rules put in place after Edward Snowden's revelations have unleashed tension among many employees in the NSA."
- How the NSA can 'turn on' your phone remotely
- Inside England's NSA—"The GCHQ is the largest secret ops center outside the United States."
- Wiebe and Binney on Why they Blew the Whistle on the NSA—"Observing corruption, waste and fraud drove NSA whistleblowers Kirk Wiebe and Bill Binney to reveal government wrongdoing."
- Stephen Fry attacks 'squalid' coalition for inaction on Snowden revelations—"Broadcaster denounces government response in speech at conference marking first anniversary of publication of NSA files."
- We "will be paying no ransom," vows town hit by Cryptowall ransom malware—"Police computers in New Hampshire hamlet crippled by crypto-based ransomware."
- Scary new Android malware holds your data hostage and demands a ransom
- Ransomware On Apple's iCloud: How the Attack Worked
- The Supreme Court is struggling to rein in America's rogue patent court
- Patent troll on the verge of winning 1 percent of iPhone revenue
- I beat the patent trolls; so should the US Senate
- Thanks for nothing, jerkface—Google+ is a minus.
- Apple Maps Are Still Lost
- Lenovo responds after cancelling customer orders due to pricing error
- Woman drops cell phone in toilet, two die in rescue attempt
- Why Uber just might be worth it at $18 billion
- Virginia DMV orders Lyft, Uber to stop operating
- Cops In Miami Are Running A Sting To Catch Lyft Drivers
- The Secret Life of an Obsessive Airbnb Host—"Determined to quit his tired government job, one D.C. office drone saves $25,000 by renting his apartment nightly and secretly sleeping on the office floor."
- $250,000 violin gets virtuosos bumped from airline flight, prompts viral video
- Man admits pointing laser beam into cockpit of plane landing at PBIA
- Dog Poo Forces Philly-Bound Flight to Make Emergency Landing
- Southwest fined $200,000 for deceptive TV ads
- Chinese kid draws on dad's passport, gets them stuck in South Korea
- One Arrested After Hand Grenade Found in Los Angeles Airport
- After Private Pilots Complain, Customs Rethinks Intercept Policy—"In recent years, more and more pilots have reported their aircraft stopped for warrantless searches by aggressive officers."
- World's worst planes: The aircraft that failed
- Gov't says airlines should disclose bag, seat fees
- The Harper government to allow passengers to use portable electronic devices during all phases of flight
- French red faces over trains that are 'too wide'
- China proposes railroad to Vancouver
- $2.34!? Cheapest bullet-train ride in Japan lasts 3 minutes, but memories are forever
- BMW sticks to its guns for future gearboxes—"Of course, with a manual you are slower, but it is more emotional; it now says 'I am a serious driver, I am a connoisseur'. So, we will continue [to offer a manual] even if only ten per cent of customers want it."
- Laserbeam headlights? Not in the US—"Audi's new headlights can't find a place in '60s-era regulations."
- California approves test of self-driving cars on public roads—"Regulations take effect mid-September; rules for the public may come this December."
- Electric car travels over 1,100 miles without a recharge on a new aluminum-air battery
- A new U.S. automaker with a $6800, 84 MPG, 3-wheeled "car" on the way
- Tesla boss Elon Musk hints at technology giveaway—He may open up Supercharger patents for electric stations.
- Tesla Model-S launch: an electric car to answer even Clarkson's objections
- Tesla Wins Back The Right To Sell Direct To Consumers In New Jersey
- GM made $22.6 billion. We lost $10.6 billion
- GM apologizes for sending recall notices to victims' families
- Botched recall: 'Fundamental failure'—But GM spares top executives from blame.
- Reich: The Way to Stop Corporate Lawbreaking is to Prosecute the People Who Break the Law
- Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: GM Ad