Join the EFF staff for a drink on Thursday, October 30th at our biannual Speakeasy! What better way to celebrate "All Hallows Eve Eve" than with the organization fighting the real-life spooks and trolls? Raise a glass with us and learn about our latest efforts to protect...
FBI Director James Comey gave a speech yesterday reiterating the FBI's nearly twenty-year-old talking points about why it wants to reduce the security in your devices, rather than help you increase it. Here's EFF's response:
The FBI should not be in the business of trying to convince companies...
Earlier this year, Randall Rader, then Chief Judge of the Federal Circuit, called a group of administrative patent judges “death squads.” What had these judges done to deserve such savage criticism? They had done exactly what Congress intended: found some bad patents invalid. This week EFF filed...
Yesterday's leak of a May 2014 draft of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement revealed the addition of new text criminalizing the misuse of trade secrets through "computer systems", as mentioned in our previous post about the leak. This is a significant revelation, because we also know that...
Deeplinks Blog by Jeremy Malcolm, Maira Sutton | October 16, 2014
Today Wikileaks published a new draft of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)’s intellectual property chapter. This draft text, from May 2014, gives us another look into the current state of negotiations over this plurilateral trade agreement’s copyright provisions since another draft was leaked last year. And what we’re seeing...
Canadian digital rights organization, OpenMedia, released a copyright report today that crowdsourced input from users from around the world. Their survey asked users to express their thoughts about copyright and to determine what issues they would like policymakers to prioritize in constructing innovation policy domestically and internationally. The process...
Last night, New York Department of Financial Services Superintendent Ben Lawksy gave a speech at the Benjamin N Cardozo School of Law in which he reportedly backed down from the threat of forcing software developers who innovate around Bitcoin to obtain licenses. According to Coindesk, Lawksy said:
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation and the ACLU Foundation of Southern California are taking the fight over automatic license plate reader (ALPR) data to the next level by asking the California Court of Appeal to rule that the public has a right to know how Los Angeles cops are tracking...
With assistance from Marcia HofmannWhat if you picked up a cup of coffee on your way to work and paid $2.00 in cash, only to have the man behind the counter request your home address?"My home address?" you might ask. "Yes," he might reply, "And your full legal name....
UPDATE: Just hours before the California Public Utilities Commission was scheduled to vote on whether or not the powerful state regulator would support the FCC's deeply flawed net neutrality proposal, the item was removed from today's agenda. This is the second time a vote on...
UPDATE: Don't miss our Wednesday night Ask the EFF BOF! Join EFF Deputy General Counsel Kurt Opsahl for a candid Q&A about what we're doing at the intersection of tech and civil liberties.
Ask the EFF - Birds of a Feather Session Wednesday, November 12,...
Open Access Week is an international event that celebrates the wide-ranging benefits of enabling open access to information and research–as well as the dangerous costs of keeping knowledge locked behind publisher paywalls. From October 20 to 26, academics, researchers, and curious minds everywhere will be...
When you buy a device, you expect to own it. You expect to be able to open it up, mess with it, and improve it. At the very least, you expect it to continue to work for its intended purpose. What you don't expect is that the manufacturer will...
Any organization that takes a stand on controversial issues can expect some criticism. And this criticism might involve someone commenting on the organization’s trademarked name or logo. For example, opponents of the NRA have suggested that “NRA Stands for Next Rifle Assault.” Critics of the ACLU have...
