   January 29, 2006 - February 04, 2006 ArchiveFebruary 02, 2006Pow! Smash! Fair use as Affirmative Defense!
Duke professor James Boyle and Jennifer Jenkins write a comic book for filmmakers explaining copyright issues.
Eavesdropping 101: What Can The NSA Do?
The ACLU watches the watchers.
PATRIOT Postponed
The PATRIOT Act gets another five week extension. It appears the urgent expansion of police powers can wait after all.
Human Rights, the Internet, and Congress
Harvard's John Palfrey, among others, briefs the Human Rights Caucus.
February 01, 2006Somebody Thinking of the Orphans
The Copyright Office releases their report on how to deal with copyrighted works when the rightsholder is unknown. Executive summary: if you try hard enough to find them, you won't get sued too badly.
RFID Passport Data Intercepted and Cracked
No need to check the secret key encoded in print; perfectly cloneable too.
Judge, Jury, and Self-Publicist
WIPO boasts about how many cybersquatting cases it decides in favor of big business.
Privatizing Transport Security
The Preferred Traveler program, allowing people to bypass standard air flight security checks, will be privately run. Should do a good job of maximizing the number of unknown, but paying customers past federal security.
FCC says AT&T, Alltel apparently violated privacy requirement
Not a great week for AT&T's privacy record.
January 31, 2006Your Senator Needs an iPod
IPac starts a campaign to bring modern, innovative technology into the hands of Senators--so they'll know first hand what the flag laws could do to interoperability and fair use.
Evading the Google Eye
MIT Tech Review interviews EFF Chief Technologist Chris Palmer about how to protect your privacy.
DRM: Media Companies' Next Flop?
CNET casts a skeptical eye over how DRM will improve the content industry's bottom line.
Code Is Not A Crime (European Edition)
The UK considers banning software with possible malicious uses.
Exit, Pursued by a Lawyer
Copyright maximalism comes to the world of play direction.
Spies, Lies and Wiretaps
New York Times efficiently presents the obvious flaws in the Administration's wiretap non-answers.
Some Thoughts on Google in China
Matthew Skala with some thoughtful commentary on Google's options--both moral and stock.
Liberte, Interoperabilite, User-modifiabilite
A french take on the problems with DRM, free software, and anti-circumvention law.
News From the Evil Parallel Universe EFF Chair
Brad Templeton--or rather his evil twin--explains how CALEA wiretapping regulations will be a boon to incumbent telcos, and a marvelous disaster for new entrants into world of telephony.
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