Ah, regulatory capture. Down in Louisiana, there’s a law that makes it a crime (yes, a crime) for anyone other than a funeral parlor to sell “funeral merchandise.” This rule is enforced by the state’s “funeral regulatory board,” which (you guessed it… Continue reading →

We’ve talked about all the hype over a supposed “kill switch” for the internet in recent cybersecurity legislation was misleading. There simply was no such thing in the proposed law — but apparently some government spymasters would like it to be true… Continue reading →

For many years we’ve questioned the wisdom of various “distracted driving” laws — such as bans on talking while driving or texting while driving. It’s not — as some people have accused — that we think texting or using a mobile phone is a good idea … Continue reading →

With the Senate trying to rush through COICA, the online censorship bill that ignores history and appears to violate both the principles of the First Amendment and due process, a bunch of concerned citizens have been speaking out against the bill, and … Continue reading →

Gmail users will be able to toggle between the service’s threaded “conversation” view of mail exchanges and a more traditional style. The option will start arriving today. Originally posted at Relevant Results

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Windows has it. Now Mozilla programmers are trying to get hardware acceleration into the Mac version of the open-source browser. Originally posted at Deep Tech

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It’s been a not-so-well-kept secret that the EFF has been actively looking for one of the sites sued by Righthaven to help defend, and it’s apparently found one in the forum site, Democratic Underground, filing the response and a series of counterclaim… Continue reading →

Back in May, we wrote about an important case questioning whether or not companies have privacy rights. Traditionally, privacy rights were seen as being for individuals, not companies, but AT&T claimed that it had privacy rights over data collect… Continue reading →