Business Illinois almost passed a bill that banned devices that record you without your consent — and then Big Tech stepped in Cory Doctorow

News CCPA: California to enforce new digital privacy law starting today, despite calls for further pandemic delay Xeni Jardin

publishing Internet Archive ending free e-books program over publisher lawsuit, National Emergency Library to close for 2 weeks Xeni Jardin

eff ICANN needs to ask more questions about the sale of .ORG Mitch Stoltz

politics Large, diverse coalition of civil society groups tell the US, UK and Australian governments not to ban working encryption Cory Doctorow

Robert Anton Wilson Wilson and Shea's Illuminatus! trilogy to become TV series Gareth Branwyn

eff We need to save .ORG from arbitrary censorship by halting the private equity buy-out Mitch Stoltz

computer science "Intellectual Debt": It's bad enough when AI gets its predictions wrong, but it's potentially WORSE when AI gets it right Cory Doctorow

Copyfight An Indian research university has assembled 73 million journal articles (without permission) and is offering the archive for unfettered scientific text-mining Cory Doctorow

uk UK ISP Association, spies, censorship organsation jointly condemn Mozilla for supporting secure DNS because it breaks UK internet censorship rules Cory Doctorow

Copyfight How #Article13 is like the Inquisition: John Milton Against the EU #CopyrightDirective Ada Palmer

happy mutants The worst possible version of the EU Copyright Directive has sparked a German uprising Cory Doctorow

censorship That German-French Deal to "Rescue" the EU Copyright Directive? Everyone Hates It. EVERYONE. Cory Doctorow

Copyfight As Macron and Merkel meet to rescue the #CopyrightDirective, the world's libraries call for its rejection Cory Doctorow

Copyfight The EU's plan for algorithmic copyright filters is looking more and more unlikely Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Facebook sold out the internet, secretly lobbied IN FAVOUR of upload filters Cory Doctorow

Copyfight The EU's plan to impose mandatory copyright filters is on life-support and may die Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Even the rightsholders think Europe’s Article 13 is a mess, call for an immediate halt in negotiations Cory Doctorow

Kids Not all "screen time" is created equal Cory Doctorow

Business Ships are just giant floating computers, filled with ransomware, BadUSB, and worms Cory Doctorow