Will U.S. lawmakers have the political willpower to pass needed privacy reforms?

Article by Trevor Timm for The Guardian

If you got angry last month when the National Security Agency, the White House and Eric Cantor's spy-friendly House of Representatives took a once-promising surveillance reform bill and turned it into a shit sandwich, I've got some good news for you: so, apparently, did many members of Congress.

It turns out the U.S. FCC gets just as annoyed as you do when poor streaming quality thwarts your binge watching the new Orange is the New Black season. But will they do something about it?

Article by Gerry Smith for The Huffington Post

If your "Orange is the New Black" binge marathon has been interrupted by buffering and you wondered who to blame, the Federal Communications Commission is now trying to answer your question.

The fight against Internet Slow Lanes is heating up in the U.S. Do you think the FCC will do the right thing?

Article by Brian Fung for The Washington Post

Democratic lawmakers will unveil a piece of bicameral legislation Tuesday that would force the Federal Communications Commission to ban fast lanes on the Internet.

This is huge: an appeals court in the U.S. ruled that the police cannot track your cell phone location without a warrant. How do you think this will affect the privacy debate?

Article by Jason Koebler for Motherboard

The government and police regularly use location data pulled off of cell phone towers to put criminals at the scenes of crimes—often without a warrant. Well, an appeals court ruled today that the practice is unconstitutional, in one of the strongest judicial defenses of technology privacy rights we've seen in a while.