EFF in the News
The team includes Joe Gratz, the lead attorney in the recent case of EFF/Augusto v Universal Music Group. Troy Augusto was sued by UMG for selling promo CDs on eBay and was represented by the EFF. He won the case, affirming an eBay seller’s right to resell promotional CDs bought from secondhand stores.
"We have always had to completely trust our platform/operating system vendor," Chris Palmer, the technology director for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital rights group, wrote in an e-mail. "It will always be that way."
Also, organizations such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) have a more fundamental problem with the Net neutrality proposed policy, since the EFF just doesn't trust the FCC at all: "Historically, the FCC has sometimes shown more concern for the demands of corporate lobbyists and 'public decency' advocates than it has for individual civil liberties."
In that light, the EFF is demanding Hunt award attorneys’ fees and possibly damages for allegedly wrongly bringing the case against Democratic Underground.
he FBI uses special spyware to track the online actions of suspects, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has learned in secret documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request.
Digital rights group The Electronic Frontier Foundation, which is opposed to the USCG's activities, has described the group's lawsuits as "predatory."
The EFF argues that Stephens Media's assignment of rights to Righthaven is a sham; additionally, the EFF is seeking a ruling stating that the Democratic Underground didn't infringe copyright of either the newspaper or Righthaven.
His bill is supported by the American Civil Liberties Union, Electronic Frontier Foundation and Google, among others. There was no registered opposition.
His bill is supported by the American Civil Liberties Union, Electronic Frontier Foundation and Google, among others. There was no registered opposition.
Molly Crabapple created the wonderful new Electronic Frontier Foundation poster “What Is Tor?”, that helps explain how the online anonymity service Tor works.
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