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In 2015, following years of dedicated activism – including individual actions by millions of Internet users – Team Internet scored a crucial victory: clear, enforceable protections for net neutrality . The new head of the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) wants to take away those protections and allow broadband providers like Comcast and AT&T to become permanent Internet gatekeepers. The good news is we can stop him. We need to tell Congress: Don’t let the FCC surrender the Internet! Take Action...
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Hopefully you’ve noticed by now that EFF has just launched a new version of our website. We’re long overdue: the last time we produced a major revision to our site was in 2010. We’d like to apologize for the delay — we’ve been pretty busy protecting your digital rights and promoting freedom online . EFF.org is our main public interface. Its goals are pretty straightforward: we want to make our work accessible to the public (including activists, journalists, researchers, policy...
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All surveillance is political. Nowhere is this more evident than on the local level when law enforcement acquires new surveillance technology. Too often, the political process advantages police over the public interest. In California, a new bill— S.B. 21 —offers the rare opportunity to shift the balance in favor of privacy. Take Action Californians: tell your state senator to vote in favor of S.B. 21. Police know that once they acquire a new spy gadget or system, it’s difficult for...
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Five EFF Tools to Help You Protect Yourself Online
Do you get creeped out when an ad eerily related to your recent Internet activity seems to follow you around the web? Do you ever wonder why you sometimes see a green lock with “https”...
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Spying on Students: School-Issued Devices and Student Privacy
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California: Let’s End Unchecked Police Surveillance
All surveillance is political. Nowhere is this more evident than on the local level when law enforcement acquires new surveillance technology. Too often, the political process advantages police over the public interest. In California, a new bill— S.B. 21 —offers the rare opportunity to shift the balance in favor...
The WIPO Broadcasting Treaty Would be a Body Blow for Online Video
This week EFF is in Geneva, at the Thirty-Fourth session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), to oppose a Broadcasting Treaty that could limit the use of video online. Ahead of this meeting, word was...
Congress Should Leave Alice Alone
Overturning the Supreme Court Decision Would Allow Abstract Patents to Hurt innovation One of the most important cases to cut back on the availability of vague, abstract patents was the 2014 decision Alice v. CLS Bank . In Alice , the U.S. Supreme Court reaffirmed the...
Limitations of ISP Data Pollution Tools
Republicans in Congress recently voted to repeal the FCC’s broadband privacy rules. As a result, your Internet provider may be able to sell sensitive information like your browsing history or app usage to advertisers, insurance companies, and more, all without your consent. In response, Internet users have been asking what...
What Don’t You Want the NSA to Know About You?
For years, U.S. government surveillance of innocent Americans has been a topic of heated debate, especially for those in the tech community. With Congress gearing up for a fight over the 2017 reauthorization of a surveillance authority that lets the NSA spy on innocent Americans without a warrant—Section 702, enacted...
