Press Mentions: September, 2004
From the Wall Street Journal (circ. 805,180), Sept. 30
"Number of Anonymous Websites Grows"
...But privacy advocates argue that Website owners, particularly those who don't operate businesses, shouldn't be required to publish their addresses and telephone numbers in public databases. They point out that whois info is a ripe target for spammers and identity thieves, and that some Website owners want to hide their contact information for legitimate reasons.
"People should have the option to hide their personal data from a casual observer, particularly when it comes to issues of free speech," says Annalee Newitz, policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a civil rights organization in San Francisco...
News.com, Sept. 22
"E-voting critics report new flaws"
...Also on Wednesday, the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation released a kind of election guide for geeks. Complete with photographs of the most popular models of e-voting machines, it lists their known flaws and problems that people have had with them in the past.
"The more people know about the voting machines they'll be using, the better prepared they'll be on election day." EFF staff attorney Matt Zimmerman said in a statement.
From Consumer Electronics Daily, Sept. 10
"Capitol Hill: HR-4077"
...Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) attorney Fred von Lohmann took issue with a provision, unchanged from the original bill, that imposes criminal penalties on anyone sharing at least 1,000 copyrighted files. He cited a Ruckus Network survey of college students that found 1,100 titles, average, shared by each student. "Turning college kids into criminals is not going to change" the fact that "tens of millions of Americans continue to use P2P net works," he said...
From the Washington Times (circ. 101,001), Sept. 6
"Music pirates turn up volume"
...The [anti-P2P] legal campaign also has fostered ill will among music fans, said Wendy Seltzer, attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a San Francisco-based digital rights advocacy group.
"It has turned more music fans against them. I'm not seeing signs that the music industry is thinking creatively. I don't know how long they will continue throwing money at lawyers," she said...
