San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed two briefs on Friday challenging secret government demands for information known as National Security Letters (NSLs) with the Ninth

Dan Perkins, aka Tom Tomorrow, penned the cartoon above in 1994 for Spin magazine.

Brewster Kahle is one of very few people in the U.S. who can talk about receiving a national-security letter.

The early debate around a key provision wasn’t about anything like mass collection of phone records.

Aim to misbehave, Google.

Ultra-secret national security letters that come with a gag order on the recipient are an unconstitutional impingement on free speech, a federal judge ruled Friday.

I resent being conscripted as a secret informer for the government.

When Congress returns from a two-week recess early next month, much of the debate is likely to focus on the issue of raising the country’s debt ceiling. But lawmakers will also revisit the extension of three controversial provisions of the Patriot Act.

Drew Thomas writes: “The University of St. Andrews School of History, along with the Center for Austrian Studies at the University of Minnesota, hosted its annual conference this year in St. Andrews, Scotland,  June 29–July 1. The conference theme was ‘The Printed Book in Central Europe.’ Scholars from across Europe and America spoke on the … Continue reading The Printed Book in Central Europe conference →

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