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Reader Privacy Act Introduced to Upgrade Book Privacy for the Digital Era

Sacramento, CA - California Senator Leland Yee has introduced the Reader Privacy Act of 2011 (SB 602), with backing from the California Affiliates of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). The law would bring a much-needed upgrade to match Californians' reading habits. Under SB...

White House Call-In Day: Demand PATRIOT Act Reform!


White House Call-In Day on April 5, 2011
Tell Obama: Keep Your Promises and Demand PATRIOT Act Reform!
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On April 5, 1792, President George Washington vetoed a bill -- the first time in U.S. history that the presidential veto was exercised. On the anniversary...

Mobile Carrier Delays Harm Internet Security

By delaying or even blocking security updates for mobile devices, mobile carriers put their users, their business, and the country’s critical infrastructure at unnecessary risk. Mobile security problems plague the entire software stack — the baseband, the kernel, the application frameworks, and the applications — and carriers continue to...

What Location Tracking Looks Like

Your cell phone company knows everywhere you go, twenty-four hours a day, every day. How concrete is this fact for you?
It's very concrete for Malte Spitz, a German politician and privacy advocate. He used German privacy law — which, like the law of many European countries, gives...

ACLU of Sonoma County's 2011 Awards Celebration & Annual Dinner

EFF's Activism Director Rainey Reitman is the keynote speaker at ACLU of Sonoma County's annual dinner and 2011 Jack Green Civil Liberties Award. Rainey will speak about "Your Privacy Under Attack: The Internet & You" as writer, comedian and winemaker Tom Smothers is honored.
When:
Friday, May...

WEB 2.0 Expo

Eva Galperin, EFF Activist, discusses the growing threat of "traitorware," the class of software and devices that work behind your back to betray your privacy. Notable examples include the Sony BMG rootkit, printer tracking dots, and locational metadata. This talk will dissect the differences between a cool new feature that...

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