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For those not directly involved, assessing the effectiveness of an anti-piracy campaign meets significant challenges. The results of campaigns are often measured by those behind them, in some cases after receiving significant financial assistance f...

A senior British diplomat said “Bosnian Serbs love us to an embarrassing degree” after their rebel army massacred thousands of Muslim civilians in a war where John Major’s government was often seen as pro-Serb. Charles Crawford, Britain’s ambassador...

Español This is the first part of a three-part series about age verification in the European Union. In this blog post, we give an overview of the political debate around age verification and explore the age verification proposal introduced by the E...

Español Ola Bini was first detained in Quito’s airport six years ago, called a “Russian hacker,” and accused of “alleged participation in the crime of assault on the integrity of computer systems.” It wouldn't take long for Ecuadorean authorities t...

Tackling online piracy is a complicated endeavor that often begins with efforts to identify the operators of infringing sites and services. This is also where the first hurdles show up. Many pirates keep their identities concealed. This applies to th...

When The Associated Press didn’t bow to President Donald Trump’s demand to refer to the Gulf of Mexico solely as the “Gulf of America,” he barred the news service from events in the Oval Office and on Air Force One. And when a judge determined that T...

Since early February, Spain has faced unprecedented yet avoidable nationwide disruption to previously functioning, entirely legitimate online services. A court order obtained by top-tier football league LaLiga in partnership with telecommunications...

In October 2023, with the bombs falling in Gaza and a siege imposed on the strip, Labour MP Lisa Nandy was invited onto BBC News to discuss Israel’s compliance with international law. “Do you think Israel breached international law by cutting off wat...

Español Update May 5, 2025: In a win for privacy and encryption, the Florida Legislature ended its regular 2025 session on May 2 without passing SB 868 / HB 743. We've seen plenty of bad tech bills in recent years, often cloaked in vague language a...

Perhaps the most famous adage of journalism — get the truth and print it — continues to face attacks in our courts, and judges often fail to stop them. A recent case comes from Victoria County, Texas, where last month a judge entered a temporary orde...