Law

Through all the conflicting data on the impact of the BP oil spill, Gulf residents are trying to quantify past, current and future damages so they can get compensated. Some are considering refusing the money, but retaining the right to sue the company.

Privacy researcher Christopher Soghoian is out with a new paper that shows that law enforcement officials are increasingly asking for access to...

Yep, we are in the litigation phase of the net neutrality debate. It's a phase that is expected to last through human history, past the extinction,...

Miguel Helft in the New York Times has an interesting article today about the possible ramifications of a recent decision against Google. A federal...

According to a report out today from Propublica and Fortune.com, the nation's largest corporation will pay taxes in 2010, despite earlier reports to the contrary. Fortune's Allan Sloan explains.

Sites like data.gov and paymentaccuracy.gov - sites designed to make government more transparent - will likely be shut down by May 31. The Office...

I think I must write one of these items a week. There's more concern about the new wireless network. This time, it's the Pentagon. The Defense...

Attorneys general from New York, Connecticut and Minnesota have all said they're concerned about the proposed AT&T and T-Mobile deal. New York...

Does anyone else think the term "record label" is outdated? No comment on whether the institution is outdated. Anyway, Amazon's new cloud service...

So a cable company like Time Warner pays the owners of channels a huge amount of money for the right to deliver those channels to customers' homes....