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.
The Pakistani government is looking for new ways to censor the Internet.
This week, the Pakistani Telecommunication Authority (PTA) released a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the development, deployment and operation of a “National Level URL Filtering and Blocking System,” calling on institutions to submit by March 2nd...
Ahead of the Academy Awards this weekend, Chris Dodd, head of the Motion Picture Association of America, would like to assure you that "Hollywood is pro-technology and pro-Internet." But what does that mean? The comments filed at the Copyright Office this month by MPAA and RIAA, together...
San Francisco - A federal appeals court has found a Florida man's constitutional rights were violated when he was imprisoned for refusing to decrypt data on several devices. This is the first time an appellate court has ruled the 5th Amendment protects against forced decryption – a major victory for...
The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found a Florida man’s constitutional rights were violated when he was imprisoned for refusing to decrypt data on several devices. This was the first time an appellate court has ruled the 5th Amendment protects forced decryption – a major victory for constitutional rights...
San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed suit in federal court to block threats aimed at LawyerRatingz.com, a website that allows Internet users to write comments and rate attorneys.
A Florida law firm – the Law Offices of Adrian Philip Thomas, P.A. – claims to have...
On March 1st, Google will implement its new, unified privacy policy, which will affect data Google has collected on you prior to March 1st as well as data it collects on you in the future. Earlier this week, we showed you how to delete your Google Web History...
