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26 July 2014

European Court Of Human Rights Fast-tracks Case Against GCHQ; More Organizations Launch Legal Challenges To UK Spying

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Back in December, we wrote about a legal action that a group of digital rights activists had brought against GCHQ, alleging that the UK&...

British Judge Rules Google Can Be Sued In UK Over Privacy Case

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The battle over online privacy, and how personal data should be treated as it moves over the Internet, is being fought between the US an...

A Rare Invitation To Help Shape European Copyright Law

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Back in May last year, we wrote about how the European Commission's "Licences for Europe" initiative had turned into a fias...

Europe's Highest Court Says DRM Circumvention May Be Lawful In Certain Circumstances

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One of the many problems with DRM is its blanket nature. As well as locking down the work in question, it often causes all kinds of othe...

Has The Copyright War Been Won -- And If So, Are We About To Lose It Again?

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Reading Techdirt, it's all-too-easy to get the impression that copyright is an utter disaster for the public -- with current laws ab...

Microsoft Goes Open Access; When Will It Go Open Source?

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Even though Microsoft is no longer the dominant player or pacesetter in the computer industry -- those roles are shared by Google and Ap...

In Response To Growing Protests, EU Pulls Corporate Sovereignty Chapter From TAFTA/TTIP To Allow For Public Consultation

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Here on Techdirt, we've been writing about the dangers of corporate sovereignty for a while. In recent months, more and more peopl...

Big Pharma Accused Of Patent Plot Of 'Satanic Magnitude' By South African Health Minister

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Here on Techdirt we've written a number of times about India's efforts to provide key drugs to its population at prices that the...

Now That The NSA Has Made It The Norm, Total Surveillance During The Sochi Olympic Games Is No Longer Noteworthy

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In addition to being an opportunity to stretch copyright and trademark rules way beyond the law, over the years, the Olympics has also b...

Will Monsanto Become The NSA Of Agriculture?

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Monsanto is best-known for its controversial use of genetically-modified organisms, and less well-known for being involved in the story ...

NSA Spying Fallout Hits French Satellite Deal

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Techdirt has already noted how the NSA's massive spying programs around the world are costing US companies money through lost busine...

Revelations About Massive UK Police Corruption Shows Why We Cannot -- And Must Not -- Trust The Spies

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As Mike reported recently, the NSA has presented no credible evidence that its bulk metadata collection is stopping terrorist attacks,...

Why Exactly Do We Need To 'Protect' US And EU Foreign Investments Through TAFTA/TTIP Anyway?

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Techdirt has already examined the issue of corporate sovereignty many times over the past year, as it has emerged as one of the most pro...

India Developing Additional National Surveillance System; US Has No Moral High Ground To Protest

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Like many other countries, India has been steadily extending its national surveillance capabilities. We wrote about its main Central Moni...

Does The Fast Track Authority Bill Guarantee That Corporate Sovereignty Will Be One-Sided And Unfair?

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Yesterday, Mike reported on the introduction of the "fast track authority" bill in the Senate, and pointed out some of its most...

Latest Twist On DRM Of Physical Products: Machines Locked Down By Geolocation

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Despite overwhelming evidence that the public hates DRM, companies persist in coming up with new ways to impose it in an effort to contr...

EU's Advocate-General Says Dutch Allowing Unauthorized Downloads Is Incompatible With European Copyright Law

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Back in 2012, Ben Zevenbergen wrote a long piece exploring a complicated Dutch case that had been referred to the Court of Justice of t...

Harvesting Waste Plastic In Emerging Economies As A Currency, To Reduce Pollution And Improve Lives

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The very best solutions not only come up with a brilliant answer to an important problem, but often manage to help address other issues ...

Could 'Tailored Access Operations' Be An Alternative To 'Collect It All'?

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One of the most contentious aspects of the NSA's surveillance is the central belief by General Alexander and presumably many others ...

Huawei's Global Head Of Cyber Security Wants The Government 'To Have As Much Data As Possible'

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In Der Spiegel's recent revelations about the far-reaching nature of the NSA's spykit , it mentions several US companies, Samsun...