EFF Civil Liberties Director, Jennifer Granick, provides an excellent review of the Free Flow of Information Act (FFIA). Introduced by Senators Specter, Lugar, and Schumer the bill seeks to establish a federal journalist-shield privilege.

The bill provides broad protection to anyone engaged in the regular gathering, writing or publishing of news or other matters of public interest. That’s good news to bloggers and so called citizen journalists. However the proposed law currently contains a loophole which withdraws this protection where it is most necessary.
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