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2012 in Review: A Year in Digital Freedom

As the year draws to a close, EFF is looking back at the major trends influencing digital rights in 2012 and where we are in the fight for free expression, innovation, fair use, and privacy. From SOPA blackouts to huge wins for location privacy, from government surveillance to new absurdity...

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Facebook Adds More Accessible Privacy Settings

It's always pleasant to have a company change its privacy settings in a way that makes it easier for users to control their data. Yesterday, Facebook started rolling out easier-to-access privacy controls. A number of privacy controls - such as controlling who can see your content on Facebook - will...

AP v. Meltwater

EFF urged a federal judge to protect fair use of news coverage and reject the Associated Press’ (AP’s) dangerously narrow view of what is “transformative” in a copyright court battle over a news-tracking service.
In Associated Press v. Meltwater, AP claims its copyrights are infringed when Meltwater, an electronic...

EFF's 2012 Holiday Wish List

Last year, we published a holiday wishlist of concrete things we'd like to see happen for Internet freedom. We did receive a few of them over the course of the year—thanks! (Feel free to have a look back at the 2011 list if you're an Internet company looking for...

ShmooCon 2013

EFF Senior Staff Attorney Marcia Hofmann will speak on developments in computer crime at ShmooCon 2013, a hacker convention.

SXSW

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is back in Austin, TX for South by Southwest (SXSW)! EFF is the world's foremost defender of online civil liberties, so it's only natural that we have boots on the ground at perhaps the most popular showcase of Internet innovation ever. For 23 years, EFF...

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