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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is proposing a new rule limiting data brokers' ability to sell Americans' sensitive personal and financial information assuming it survives th ...

Cops just seem to love killing people's pets. While this act is often "justified" by (often ridiculous) claims of "officer safety," a whole lot of killing of people ...

We've talked plenty about the ways that the DMCA process specifically is wide open for fraud and abuse. There are plenty of forms this sort of thing can take, of course, but one of the more t ...

Support us on Patreon » We've written about the many signs that Trump FCC pick Brendan Carr is eager to be America's top censor. Recently, Mike once again joined Andy Levy on ...

This is probably the correct conclusion to arrive at, at least at this point in extremely limited jurisprudence, but it still raises some questions courts will likely have to confront in the future ...

In May 2022 Thierry Breton, at the time a prominent European Commissioner, went to Texas and dropped in on Elon Musk, who was then on his way to buying Twitter. During his visit, Breton did somethi ...

The 2021 infrastructure bill is poised to deliver $42.5 billion in broadband subsidies to the states under a program called Broadband Equity, Access, And Deployment (BEAD). This prog ...

One of the most important shifts in computing over the last few decades has been the increasing use of open source software on nearly every platform, from cloud computing to smartphones (well, I wo ...

This may not mean much in the grand scheme of things but it's good to see these objections on the record. It's incremental, but in these times, every increment helps, especially when th ...

If you're not of a certain age, you may not be entirely familiar with the story of Enron, the once-vaunted energy and bandwidth trading company that went down in one of the most public bankru ...