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Brief of Amici Curiae Supporting EPIC's Petition for Writ of Mandamus (EPIC...

Full Document Available in PDFSummary of ArgumentThe Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) use of body-scanners has affected millions of Americans, yet passengers still have had no opportunity...

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Cyber Bill Shouldn't Gut Private Contracts

(Written with TechFreedom president Berin Szoka)Days before August recess, Senate Democrats are scrambling to pass legislation creating a new federal bureaucracy to set supposedly “voluntary” standards...

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TSA Flouts the Law on Body Scanners

Also appeared in: The Charlotte Observer, Tulsa World, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Press of Atlantic City, and Juneau Empire.For more than five years, the Transportation Security Administration has been...

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FTC's Record Fine Sends Ominous Warning to Internet Innovators

Washington, D.C., August 9, 2012 − Google will pay $22.5 million to settle an FTC complaint claiming the company misled Safari users about its privacy practices. This fine marks the largest the FTC has...

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Google $22.5M Settlement With FTC Over Privacy Criticized by Industry Group

From Robert J. Mullin's article in eWeek:A group promoting competitive innovation on the Internet has criticized the FTC’s “headline-grabbing settlement” for $22.5 million with Google as a move that...

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Editorial: Naked truth about TSA

From an editorial in The Dispatch and The Rock Island Argus:The fact that TSA is pursuing the case is no surprise given the agency's apparent inability to even recognize that the airline passengers its...

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Verizon Draws Fire for Monitoring App Usage, Browsing Habits

From Declan McCullagh's article in CNet:Ryan Radia, associate director of technology studies at the Competitive Enterprise Institute think tank, agrees with the EFF's Fakhoury that disclosing...

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Decades-Old ECPA Needs Update, CEI Urges

Washington, D.C., November 29, 2012 — This morning, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee will vote on an amendment to the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), which governs law enforcement...

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Free Market Group Applauds Bipartisan GPS Act

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 21, 2013 — Today, a bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced the Geolocation Privacy and Surveillance (GPS) Act, which would limit the government’s ability to warrantlessly...

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Bills would require warrants for police to use GPS tracking

Groups voicing support for the GPS Act include the American Civil Liberties Union, Americans for Tax Reform's DigitalLiberty.net, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the Electronic Frontier...

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TSA finally agrees to comply with 2011 court order requiring them to take...

“I wouldn’t applaud TSA for doing this since they were required by the D.C. Circuit to open this proceeding by the end of the month,” Marc Scribner, fellow in land-use and transportation studies at the...

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CISPA Voids Private Contracts, Undermines Rule of Law

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 17, 2013 — The U.S. House of Representatives will soon vote on final passage of H.R. 624, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2013 (CISPA).The Competitive...

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Pass CISPA. Don't Pass a Big, Messy Copyright Bill

There’s still the matter of a new FCC chairman. It’s important that we get a humble FCC chairman, not a wild-eyed activist. A letter to that point has been circulated by Tech Freedom and Geoff Manne of...

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Jones aims to curb cyber-snooping

Under CISPA, private emails and a user’s Internet browser history could be sent to the federal government. Users would have no way of knowing whether or not their information has been shared, as the...

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Google $22.5M Settlement With FTC Over Privacy Criticized by Industry Group

From Robert J. Mullin's article in eWeek:A group promoting competitive innovation on the Internet has criticized the FTC’s “headline-grabbing settlement” for $22.5 million with Google as a move that...

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FTC's Record Fine Sends Ominous Warning to Internet Innovators

Washington, D.C., August 9, 2012 − Google will pay $22.5 million to settle an FTC complaint claiming the company misled Safari users about its privacy practices. This fine marks the largest the FTC has...

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CEI Expert to Speak at 'Restore the Fourth' Rally Tomorrow

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 3, 2013 – Ryan Radia, Associate Director of CEI’s Center for Technology & Innovation, will speak at tomorrow’s Restore the Fourth rally in McPherson Square in Washington,...

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Free Market Coalition Urges House to Defund Suspicionless NSA Spying

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 24, 2013 – A free-market coalition today urged members of the U.S. House of Representatives to vote yes on Reps. Justin Amash and John Conyers'amendment to the Department of...

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Coalition Letter in Support of the Amash Amendment

Full Document Available in PDFDear Member of the U.S. House of Representatives:We write to urge you to vote yes on the bipartisan Amash-Conyers amendment to the Department of Defense Appropriations Act...

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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau accused of violating transparency law

“Just about every time they’re convening, it has to be open to the public . . . and when it’s not open to the public it has to be in the federal register with an explanation of why it’s not open to the...

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