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At the end of last year, we wrote about an extraordinary attempt by the University of California (UC) to resuscitate the infamous "...

In the wake of the news that spies at GCHQ -- the UK equivalent of the NSA -- have been tapping into every fiber optic cable that comes...

Earlier this month, the messaging service Viber was blocked in Saudi Arabia . This was not entirely unexpected, since the authorities ha...

A post on Examiner.com points out that Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia's co-founder, is interested in Edward Snowden : On Techdirt . 

As we've noted before, when it comes to the Internet, governments around the world have an unfortunate habit of copying each other...

It's hard to believe that the heady times that saw SOPA's rise and fall are only a year and a half ago. Of course, SOPA didn...

Last year, we reported on Australia's plans to bring in comprehensive snooping on its citizens, and more recently how its spies had r...

An early criticism of Snowden's leak about NSA spying activity was that the $20 million annual cost for PRISM -- whatever that turn...

There finally seems to be a growing recognition in many countries that copyright is not fit for the digital age. In the US, the Copyrig...

It is extraordinary how companies have failed to grasp three basic facts about DRM: that DRM only needs to be broken once, and it is bro...

One unfortunate knock-on effect of the revelations about the extent of NSA information gathering seems to be that the spies in other cou...

Here on Techdirt we've had stories about how the ubiquity of digital cameras is changing the way we look at public events and art . ...

Techdirt readers may recall that over three years ago, the UK's Digital Economy Act was passed in totally disgraceful circumstances...

One of the problems with the debates around copyright and patents is that they too often assume that intellectual monopolies are necessar...

So the revelations from Edward Snowden keep on coming, exposing ever-more profound attacks on privacy and democracy in the UK and elsewh...

The last couple of weeks have been full of the revelations about NSA spying on a massive scale. What has been slightly disconcerting is...

Irrespective of the details of the current revelations about US spying being provided by Edward Snowden in the Guardian, there is alread...

Remember the Digital Economy Act, surely one of the most disgraceful episodes in recent British political history? It was "passed...

The extraordinary revelations about the NSA' s global spying programme Prism have only just started - was it really just last Thursd...

It's been a while since I wrote about net neutrality, but of course it's never gone away as an important theme. Indeed, it was i...

Mozilla and its central Firefox project are themes that I have returned to often on this blog. That's not so surprising: Mozilla is ...

"Law is the operating system of our society ... So show me the manual!" Not alas, my witty words, but those found on the site ...

I love the spring. Not, of course, because of the glorious weather, since we don't have any. But because it's time for the annu...

I've written a number of posts looking at less-familiar advantages of open source over closed source, and here's another one. Pr...

I've written a few times about open data in the context of clinical trials - the information that must be provided when new drugs s...