Praça São Salvador - Laranjeiras Rio de Janeiro - RJ 22210-080
Friday, October 11th at 7:00 pm
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is proud to host our next happy hour in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. EFF International Team, Danny O'Brien and ...

A group of prominent technologists submitted a letter today to the NSA Review Group, a body charged with conducting a review of NSA activities that does not currently have a technologist as a member. The letter urges the Review Group to seek assistance from independent technologists in order...

President Obama was scheduled to meet with the leaders of the other eleven countries negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement ahead of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting in Bali, supposedly to plan the “end-game” for this massive trade deal. However, he has made a sudden decision to cancel...

"Computers are everywhere. They are now something we put our whole bodies into—airplanes, cars—and something we put into our bodies—pacemakers, cochlear implants. They HAVE to be trustworthy."–EFF Fellow Cory Doctorow
Cory’s right, of course. And that’s why the recent New York Times story on the NSA’s systematic...

Today we learned just how determined the patent troll Lodsys is to avoid a ruling on the merits of its claims. When software security company Kaspersky Lab refused to surrender, Lodsys settled for nothing (yes, you read that right—absolutely nothing) rather than take its claims to trial.
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