Last Saturday, the Canadian government announced it would put proposed online surveillance legislation temporarily "on pause" following sustained public outrage generated by the bill. Since its introduction two weeks ago, Canadians have spoken out en masse against Bill C-30, the Canadian government’s latest attempt to update police...
Earlier this week we released version 2.0.1 of HTTPS Everywhere for Firefox, and also, a new beta version for Chrome! You can install HTTPS Everywhere here: (Firefox 2.0.1 Download)
Yesterday, EFF and the Center for Constitutional Rights filed an amicus brief (PDF) in support of certiorari, asking the Supreme Court to enforce the plain text of the Wiretap Act and its absolute prohibition against the use of illegally intercepted communications.
The case arises out of...
12 years ago, hundreds of thousands of Serbians filled the streets of Belgrade, blocking the entire city in protest of Slobodan Milošević’s regime. At the time such a widespread protest had seemed unimaginable. Before the uprising, the mood in the country was melancholic, cynical, and hopeless amid disillusionment with...
PayPal has instituted a new policy aimed at censoring what digital denizens can and can’t read, and they’re doing it in a way that leaves us with little recourse to challenge their policies in court. Indie publisher Smashwords has notified contributing authors, publishers, and literary agents that they would...
Earlier this month, EFF called for the protection of Saudi blogger and journalist Hamza Kashgari, who had fled Saudi Arabia after tweets he wrote about the Prophet Mohammed provoked clerics to demand that he be tried for apostasy, and members of the public to call for his murder. Kashgari...
San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) launched the 2.0 version of HTTPS Everywhere for the Firefox browser today, including an important new update that warns users about web security holes.
The "Decentralized SSL Observatory" is an optional feature that detects encryption weaknesses and notifies users when they...
EFF Senior Staff Attorney Marcia Hofmann returns to CanSecWest speaking on "Legal Issues in Mobile Security Research." Marcia's presentation will identify and discuss sticky legal problems raised by researching the security of mobile devices. Using American law as a jumping-off point, she wil discuss common legal issues that...
EFF Activist Eva Galperin joins an interesting line-up on Sunday, March 4 discussing several facets of Protecting Digital Freedoms. Eva's talk, "Nymwars", addresses anonymity and psdeunymity on social networks, as well in the comments sections of blogs and newspapers. Sunday, March 4, 2012, 3 p.m.
Langton...
Monday, February 27, 3 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Ask the EFF panel! Featuring EFF staff Dan Auerbach, Eva Galperin, Hanni Fakhoury, Marcia Hofmann, Jennifer Lynch and Trevor Timm.
Come with your questions!
Stop by EFF's booth and meet several of our EFF staff members! We will be there daily through 3 p.m. on Thursday, March 1.
EFF Senior Staff Attorney Marcia Hofmann joins a panel discussing "Should I Sue? The Perils of Litigation in the Age of Anonymous" ...
The world’s attention has recently turned to the question of how to hold companies accountable for knowingly marketing, selling and adapting the tools of surveillance to repressive regimes. U.S. and E.U. companies’ equipment has been linked to torture and other human rights violations in many Middle East and North...
As the European Parliament considers passing a directive that would target hacking, EFF has submitted comments urging the legislators not to create legal woes for researchers who expose security flaws.
