After a brief deliberation, a jury this week awarded $1.5 million in statutory damages ($62,500 per recording) to the record label plaintiffs in Capitol v. Thomas-Rasset. The case has repeatedly made headlines as the first action against an individual accused of illegal file-sharing to make it to the...

Join Senior Staff Attorney Kurt Opsahl at Speakeasy: Berlin to discuss EFF's latest work and raise a glass to digital freedom. EFF's Speakeasy events are a series of local, informal gatherings that give EFF members a chance to meet the people behind the leading digital civil liberties organization in...

It has been some time since EFF blogged about Hari Prasad. Earlier this year, a team of security researchers led by Prasad, Alex Halderman, and Rop Gonggrijp was able to study an electronic voting machine (EVM) in actual use in India. The study was limited, because...

The Identity Project notes on its blog today that the Department of Homeland Security singled out EFF, along with other activist groups and media representatives such as the ACLU, EPIC, Human Rights Watch, AP, etc, for an extra layer of review on its FOIA requests. Records posted online by...

Students at the Ohio State University Open Source Club have made some excellent and much-needed upgrades to EFF's MyTube software.
Real privacy risks are presented by all of the Web's solutions for embedded video — from user-generated-content sites like YouTube to proprietary sites like ...

Back in 2007, Stephanie Lenz posted a video to YouTube of her children dancing and running around in her kitchen. Stephanie wanted to share the moment with her family and friends. But they weren't the only ones watching: a few months later, Universal Music Corp. had the video removed...

They can promise strong encryption. They just need to figure out how they can provide us plain text. - FBI General Counsel Valerie Caproni, September 27, 2010
[W]e're in favor of strong encryption, robust encryption. The country needs it, industry needs it. We just want to make sure we...