Last week, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted to pass the Safe San Francisco Civil Rights Ordinance, legislation that ensures that the San Francisco Police Department's counterterrorism activities are controlled by San Franciscans, rather than by the FBI. The ordinance requires San Francisco police officers working with the FBI's...

As we noted in an earlier post, EFF received the first batch of records from the DOJ in our FOIA lawsuit related to Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act yesterday. The government released approximately 300 pages of records to EFF, but (not surprisingly) none of those records shed...

On the heels of President Obama's recent introduction of a Privacy Bill of Rights, the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA), the latest self-regulatory organization for online advertising, agreed to support widespread implementation of Do Not Track (DNT) browser headers. This is a laudable step, and in the coming months the...

Update on Pakistan’s plans for national censorship program
US company McAfee has just announced that they will not submit a proposal to create and implement a national blocking and filtering system in Pakistan. Their response came after pressure from various local and international groups including the EFF, ...

UPDATE: National Assembly Member Bushra Gohar confirmed to the The Express Tribune that the Pakistani Ministry of Information Technology will withdraw its plans to subsidize a national blocking and filtering system. An official statement is due tomorrow.
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Since we first wrote about Pakistan’s Telecommunications...

Today kicks off Sunshine Week—a week dedicated to focusing on the importance of open government and ensuring accountability for government officials at the federal, state and local levels. To celebrate, EFF is kicking off a new weekly feature to highlight important news regarding government transparency. We will report on important...

Late Friday, the federal district court in Nevada issued a declaratory judgment that makes it harder for copyright holders to file lawsuits over excerpts of material and burden online forums and their users with nuisance lawsuits.
The judgment – part of the nuisance lawsuit avalanche started by...