The Washington Post reports that FCC Chairman Genachowski is considering basing the FCC’s proposed net neutrality rules on precisely the legal foundation discredited in a recent court ruling: Specifically, he is exploring a legal push under the current legal framework for broadband, which is under Title I, that would make possible the FCC’s push for [...]
“Connections.” It’s an innocent-sounding word. But it’s at the heart of some of the worst of Facebook’s recent changes. Facebook first announced Connections a few weeks ago, and EFF quickly wrote at length about the problems they created. Basically, Facebook has transformed substantial personal information — including your hometown, education, work history, interests, and activities [...]
In March, we wrote about Playstation 3 owners who were up in arms after Sony announced that a new firmware “upgrade” would actually disable a feature that enables users to run GNU/LINUX and other operating systems on their PS3 consoles. In response, a class action lawsuit has now been filed against Sony on behalf of [...]
Should US and European law enforcement agencies be given unrestricted access to commercial and travel transactions from individuals around the world without judicial oversight? That was the question on the table in a heated debate in the European Parliament this week. In the early years of the so-called “War On Terror”, the US government created [...]