What if you couldn’t sell your old car without getting a patent license? What if you couldn’t bring your smartphone into the US without the phone maker’s permission? It would … Read more
A new U.S. Presidential Administration takes office today. While there are many serious issues to tackle and many hard-fought debates to commence, no matter what your political views are, I … Read more
As we have previously written, long term patent terms impede the short innovation cycle and continuous iteration of software development. Innovation is harmed by overbroad software patents that cover large … Read more
On December 19th, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) released new recommendations on “Encouraging Data Usage in Rural Areas Through Provisioning of Free Data.” This is the latest salvo … Read more
The bipartisan Congressional Encryption Working Group just released an end of year report after spending much of the last year looking into the decades-long encryption debate – and have squarely … Read more
Despite the amount of technology in a shiny new smartphone, it’s hard not to feel a bit of sticker shock when buying one. Here’s something that may be even more … Read more
We may have to do it again. Importantly, we can and we will. President-Elect Trump has picked his members of the “agency landing team” for the Federal Communications Commission. Notably, … Read more
Mozilla and Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society recently hosted the first in a series of discussion events about government hacking. From the San Bernardino case, in which the FBI … Read more
Last week’s cyber attack on Dyn that blocked access to popular websites like Amazon, Spotify, and Twitter is the latest example of the increasing threats to Internet security, making it … Read more
Last week, we wrote about the shared responsibility of protecting Internet security. Today, we want to dive deeper into this issue and focus on one very important obligation governments have: … Read more
Millions of people in developing nations think that Facebook is the Internet. This is not a matter of mere confusion. It means that millions of people aren’t able to take … Read more
Over the past 18 months, the debate around the free and open Internet has taken hold in countries around the world, and we’ve been encouraged to see governments take steps … Read more