We used to talk about the “borderless” environment of the Internet.  These days, that view is looking increasingly outmoded and utopian, in large part because of the intersection of law enforcement and privacy concerns.  Steady increases in regulation (and enforcement of existing regulation) in these areas is increasingly prompting two types of responses by global

Depending on the new Commission’s level of ambition when it takes office in the Autumn, this week’s European Court of Justice preliminary ruling (Cases C-293/12 and C-594/12), which found a 2006 Directive invalid, could prove an opportunity to re-think the EU approach to privacy and protecting personal data.

When we think about the EU and

Last week the IRS announced that Bitcoin would be treated as property, rather than currency, for tax purposes.  That means the virtual currency will be subject to very real capital gains taxes when used to make purchases.  So is this good or bad for Bitcoin?  Well, that depends on whether you view the glass on

Almost immediately after the Republican National Committee adopted an error-filled resolution attacking the NSA and its telephone metadata program, current and former GOP officials took a strong stand against the RNC resolution:

[T]he RNC resolution threatens to do great damage to the security of the nation. It would be foolhardy to end the

Matt Blaze, a well-known public cryptographer and NSA critic, offered what seemed like a modest concession in the relentless campaign against NSA intelligence gathering:

The NSA’s tools are very sharp indeed, even in the presence of communications networks that are well hardened against eavesdropping. How can this be good news? It isn’t if you’re