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I was disturbed to read in the Guardian that the UK government may be wavering on introducing plain packs for cigarettes.  Failing to do s...

The EU Ombudsman is running a consultation on how to improve the transparency of the TTIP negotiations.  This shouldn't be hard, ...

When the European Commission was laying the foundations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership - TTIP, also known as T...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

One of the bitter lessons we learned from Snowden's leaks is that the Internet has been compromised by the NSA (with some help from ...

Techdirt has been tracking the sorry saga of Canada's assault on free speech for a while, as it first muzzled scientists and librari...