Laurence Tribe says that charging Bradley Manning with "aiding the enemy" is dangerous to freedom of speech.

Julian Assange rips into a book by Google's leaders, pointing out how digital surveillance technology is leading the world towards "titanic centralizing evil".

Google is trying to block face-recognition applications for Google Glasses, which is laudable in spirit, but can only be done by censoring applications, as Apple does — which is hopeless as well as wrong.

It appears that Tea Party groups were just a fraction of the organizations subject to special scrutiny by the IRS on suspicion that they were really political.

Tunisia, like the US and other countries, stretches the definition of terrorism and uses it against dissidents.

More confusion results from the term "intellectual property": research into a virus identified in Saudi Arabia in 2012 is being impeded because the lab that isolated the virus is making other labs sign contracts not to redistribute the virus to other labs.

These contracts are about physical objects (virus particles), but some of the people cited have confused this with a patent. The contracts may be harmful, but they are not a patent.