The Path to Victory on Net Neutrality in the House of Representatives and How...
The United States Senate has voted to overturn the FCC and restore net neutrality protections, the fate of that measure currently rests in the House of Representatives. While many will think that the...
View ArticleEFF Presents Mur Lafferty's Science Fiction Story About Our Fair Use Petition...
Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA 1201) makes it illegal to get around any sort of lock that controls access to copyrighted material. Getting exemptions to that prohibitions is...
View ArticleStupid Patent of the Month: Facebook Joins the Online Dating Arms Race
Earlier this month, Facebook announced that it will wedge its way into an already-crowded corner of online commerce. The social networking site plans to use its giant storehouse of personal data to...
View ArticleShould AI Always Identify Itself? It’s more complicated than you might...
The Google Duplex demos released two weeks agoâaudio recordings of the companyâs new AI system scheduling a hair appointment and the other of the system calling a restaurantâare at once...
View ArticleFBI Admits It Inflated Number of Supposedly Unhackable Devices
Weâve learned that the FBI has been misinforming Congress and the public as part of its call for backdoor access to encrypted devices. For months, the Bureau has claimed that encryption prevented it...
View ArticleVote EFF on CREDO's May Ballot
Right now you can help EFF receive a portion of a $150,000+ donation pool without even opening your wallet. EFF is one of the three nonprofits featured in CREDO's giving group this month, so if you...
View ArticleVictory For The First Amendment: Court Rules That Government Officials Who...
New York, New YorkâPresident Donald Trump's blocking of people on Twitter because they criticize him violates the First Amendment, a federal judge in New York ruled today in a resounding victory for...
View ArticleEgyptian Blogger and Activist Wael Abbas Detained
When we wrote of award-winning journalist Wael Abbas being silenced by social media platforms in February, we never suspected that those suspensions would reach beyond the internet to help silence him...
View ArticlePress Conference Tuesday: EFF and Open Internet Advocates Will Urge...
Sacramento, CaliforniaâOn Tuesday, May 29, at 11:30 am, EFF Legislative Counsel Ernesto Falcon will urge state senators to pass a bill that would protect net neutrality in California.read more...
View ArticleToday: Tell the California Senate to Defend Net Neutrality and Pass S.B. 822
Update 05/30/2018: On May 30, the California Senate voted 23-12 to pass S.B. 822. Now it must be passed by the California Assembly to be on its way to the governor's desk. read more...
View ArticleAmazon, Stop Powering Government Surveillance
EFF has joined the ACLU and a coalition of civil liberties organizations demanding that Amazon stop powering a government surveillance infrastructure. Last week, we signed onto a letter to Amazon...
View ArticleEmail Privacy Act Comes Back, Hopefully to Stay
The Email Privacy Act is back. We hope it can stay. read more...
View ArticleHow To Turn PGP Back On As Safely As Possible
Previously, EFF recommended to PGP users that, because of new attacks revealed by researchers from Münster University of Applied Sciences, Ruhr University Bochum, and NXP Semiconductors, they should...
View ArticleEFF and Other Groups Fight State Department Collection of Social Media...
EFF and 54 civil liberties organizations joined comments this week written by the Brennan Center for Justice and the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) standing up against the U.S....
View ArticleAuthor Trademarks the Word 'Cocky,' Earns the Ire of Romance Writers Everywhere
Itâs a bad idea to come after romance authorsâ favorite double entendres. Unfortunately, Faleena Hopkins, holder of a trademark on the word âcockyâ and a shaky understanding of trademark law,...
View ArticleEFF Presents Cory Doctorow's Science Fiction Story About Our Jailbreaking...
Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA 1201) makes it illegal to get around any sort of lock that controls access to copyrighted material. Getting exemptions to that prohibitions is...
View ArticleFacebook, Instagram Lack Transparency on Government-Ordered Content Removal...
San Francisco, CaliforniaâFacing increased demands from governments to remove user content, purportedly in the name of combating hate speech and extremism, a handful of social media and app store...
View ArticleA Constitutional Conundrum That’s Not Going Away—Unequal Access...
Among the many privacy challenges posed by social media, one has flown largely under the radar: balancing defendantsâ due process rights to access exculpatory information against the crucial privacy...
View ArticleHow the WIPO Broadcasting Treaty Will Lock Up Online Video
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is no longer the only game in town when it comes to international copyright negotiations. Today, trade negotiations such as the North American Free...
View ArticleEFF and 23 Civil Liberties Organizations Demand Transparency on NSA Domestic...
This week, 24 civil liberties organizations, including EFF and the ACLU, urged Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats to reportâas required by lawâstatistics that could help clear up just...
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