Last November, news broke that the Internet Society had agreed to sell Public Interest Registry – the organization responsible for overseeing the .ORG top-level domain — to a newly formed private equity firm called Ethos Capital. After months of debate and widespread outcry from civil society and other stakeholders around...
The Senate Commerce Committee’s Tuesday hearing on the PACT Act and Section 230 was a refreshingly substantive bipartisan discussion about the thorny issues related to how online platforms moderate user content, and to what extent these companies should be held liable for harmful user content.The hearing brought into focus...
As students, parents, and schools prepare the new school year, universities are considering ways to make returning to campus safer. Some are considering and even mandating that students install COVID-related technology on their personal devices, but this is the wrong call. Exposure notification apps, quarantine enforcement programs,...
México acaba de adoptar una nueva y terrible ley de derechos de autor, gracias a la presión de los Estados Unidos (y específicamente de los maximalistas del derecho de autor que ejercen una enorme influencia en la política exterior de los Estados Unidos).Esta ley se asemeja mucho a la Ley...
A principios de este mes, el Congreso de México importó apresuradamente la mayor parte del sistema de derechos de autor de EE.UU. a la legislación mexicana, en un acto peligroso y poco considerado. Pero ni esta acción ni sus consecuencias se produjeron en el vacío: más bien fue una...
La nueva ley de derechos de autor de México fue aprobada apresuradamente por el Congreso sin un debate o consulta adecuados, y eso es un problema, porque la ley - una copia al por mayor del sistema de derechos de autor de EE.UU. - crea riesgos únicos para...
Update: This post has been corrected as of August 1, 2020 to accurately reflect the details of the NetzDG.For years, free speech and press freedoms have been under attack in Turkey. The country has the distinction of being the world’s largest jailer of journalists and has in recent...
A federal appeals court last week refused to unseal a court order that reportedly stopped the Justice Department from forcing Facebook to break the encryption it offers to users of its Messenger application.The unpublished decision ends an effort by EFF, ACLU, and Stanford cybersecurity scholar Riana Pfefferkorn to...
This November, Californians will be called upon to vote on a ballot initiative called the California Privacy Rights Act, or Proposition 24. EFF does not support it; nor does EFF oppose it.EFF works across the country to enact and defend laws that empower technology users to...
When people get sued by patent trolls, they can fight back in one of two places: a U.S. district court or the Patent and Trademark Office. But the Patent Office is putting its thumb on the scale again in favor of patent owners and against technology users. This time, the...
Este mes, México se apresuró a aprobar una nueva y amplia ley de derechos de autor sin un debate o consulta adecuados y, como resultado, adoptó una norma nacional que es absolutamente inapropiada para el propósito, con graves implicaciones para los derechos humanos y la seguridad cibernética.La nueva ley...
Join us for the first ever DEF CON Safe Mode! DEF CON is one of the oldest and largest continuously running hacker conventions around. This virtual version of the event will be free to all and streaming on Twitch! We're excited to have multiple talks and contests for the...
It’s not enough to say that the Internet is built on interoperability. The Internet is interoperability. Billions of machines around the world use the same set of open protocols—like TCP/IP, HTTP, and TLS—to talk to one another. The first Internet-connected devices were only possible because phone lines provided interoperable communication...
Frontier’s bankruptcy has serious consequences for Americans, including 2 million Californians, who are stuck with their deteriorating DSL monopoly. After deciding for years to never upgrade their networks to fiber—despite the fact that, according to their own bankruptcy filing, they could have profitably upgraded 3 million customers to...
