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Businesses 'paying patent tax' to Microsoft
News Businesses are paying a "patent tax" to Microsoft of $21.50 (£10.74) per user, according to the Software Freedom Law Center. The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC), whose directors include the general counsels for the Free Software Foundation and...
[April 20, 2007, 16:00]
Linux legal team sues over GPL violations
News The Software Freedom Law Center said it has filed suit against two companies for allegedly violating the General Public License, which covers usage of Linux and thousands of other free and open-source products.
[November 21, 2007, 10:34]
Verizon sued over GPL breach
News The Software Freedom Law Center said on Friday that it has filed a lawsuit against international telco Verizon, alleging that it has violated the terms of the General Public License, which governs the use of free and open-source software products.
[December 10, 2007, 10:54]
Open source politics are 'American as apple pie'
News Moglen, who is also the founding director of The Software Freedom Law Center, was largely preaching to the converted when he made the remarks at the open source company's second annual user conference.
[June 2, 2006, 10:55]
Protesters declare war on copyright law
News This is a war being waged by copyright interests who see each opportunity on the Internet as an opportunity to change the meaning of copyright law," said Lawrence Lessig, director of Stanford University's Center for Internet and Society and author...
[August 31, 2001, 10:08]
Free software 'not anti-capitalist'
News As well as the FSF, Moglen also works with a number of other free software projects through the Software Freedom Law Center, which he helped launch last year. The full interview with Eben Moglen, where he discusses his work with the Law Center, his...
[March 15, 2006, 16:10]
Cyberterrorism: Security versus liberty
News People pretty readily let go of privacy concerns as soon as security is involved," said Jonathan Zittrain, co-director of Harvard University Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Earlier this year, scuba divers found out just how...
[August 27, 2002, 13:35]
FBI: Auction fraud tops Net scam list
News The Internet Fraud Complaint Center, a joint operation of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the National White Collar Crime Center, said on Wednesday that auction fraud accounted for nearly 43 percent of the complaints received from victims...
[April 10, 2002, 14:52]
Google homepage link mollifies privacy campaigners
News This was not only required by California law (and Google is a California corporation) but is also the standard practice for commercial websites," he wrote in an email. But Rotenberg noted that his group "helped draw attention to the 30-day time...
[July 7, 2008, 11:58]
Free software's white knight
News Q: Last year, you helped launch the Software Freedom Law Center, which offers free legal advice to free software projects. What is the Law Center's involvement in the GPL 3 revision process? As well as legal work for the FSF, Moglen now works with...
[March 15, 2006, 12:20]
VoIP eavesdropping rules face mounting challenge
News The FCC simply does not have the statutory authority to extend the 1994 law for the telephone system to the twenty-first century Internet," said Marc Rotenberg, director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, which is joining the second...
[October 25, 2005, 9:05]
Privacy concerns continue to grow
News Jerry Berman, executive director of technology policy group the Center for Democracy and Technology, reiterated many of the concerns that were voiced as the law was being considered last October, saying the bill's backers resisted public...
[April 19, 2002, 12:52]
FBI agent: I am Big Brother
News Can effective law enforcement and personal privacy coexist? Law enforcement officials and privacy advocates faced off in a panel discussion Wednesday over the issue of the tradeoffs between security and privacy at the 10th annual Computer, Freedom...
[April 6, 2000, 9:37]
US furor rises over PC wiretap plan
News The law would make it easier for law enforcement officials to obtain from judges a now-rarely-used authorisation to break into a suspect's home and plant a hidden listening device. But in a letter to House Speaker Dennis Hastert, acting assistant...
[August 23, 1999, 9:07]
Campaigners call for Google privacy policy link
News A conglomerate of privacy groups has called for Google to link to its privacy policy from its homepage, claiming not to do so contravenes Californian law. California law requires the operator of a commercial website to 'conspicuously post its...
[June 5, 2008, 11:29]
US government, Net firms fail to agree on data retention
News In addition, Internet providers are required by another federal law to report child pornography sightings to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, which is in turn charged with forwarding that report to the appropriate police...
[June 5, 2006, 10:25]
AOL axes staff over privacy breach
News It is unclear whether AOL's release of the user search data was illegal, but if AOL broke the law, the FTC should take action, said Ari Schwartz, deputy director of the Center for Democracy and Technology, which receives a small fraction of its...
[August 22, 2006, 8:40]
Anti-terror blitz hits privacy worldwide
News In response, the European Commission is considering a requirement that would make cyberattacks punishable as a terrorist office, Australia and Canada are drafting laws to permit spy agencies to conduct domestic surveillance of citizens, and a UK...
[September 3, 2002, 15:15]
Hackers face life sentence
News Under federal law, such taps can take place when there's a threat of "serious bodily injury to any person" or activity involving organized crime. It is imperative that the penalties and law enforcement capabilities are adequate to prevent and deter...
[July 16, 2002, 12:48]
Homeland Security bill becomes US law
News But civil liberties groups are concerned about the impact the law will have on privacy, especially when linked with a pair of controversial projects funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
[November 26, 2002, 11:41]
