DC Circuit Evades Important Questions in Disappointing Ruling on Section 1201 of the DMCA
The Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit has issued a disappointing ruling in the case of Green v. DOJ. The ruling left intact a law that has stifled speech and innovation for decades and forced researchers, advocates, teachers, and tinkerers to beg for government permission to do...
VICTORY! San Francisco Bans Killer Robots…For Now
Network Usage Fees Will Harm European Consumers and Businesses
Network usage fees, the idea that certain types of companies should pay internet service providers (ISPs) for the ability to deliver their content to consumers, both hurts consumers and breaks the status quo that has facilitated the rapid spread of the global internet. ISPs claim these fees are necessary because...
The Supreme Court Must Protect Internet Users’ Rights to Access Controversial Information Online
Lawsuits claiming that online services aid terrorist organizations just by hosting their content or having users who espouse the organizations’ views potentially could censor a vast amount of protected expression online, EFF and a coalition of other civil society groups argued in a brief filed this week. In Twitter...
44 Local Organizations Stand Against SFPD’s Killer Robots
This Judge’s Investigation Of Patent Trolls Must Be Allowed to Move Forward
If you get sued, you should be able to figure out who sued you. Remarkably, though, people and companies who are accused of patent infringement in federal court often have no idea who is truly behind the lawsuit. Patent trolls, companies whose main business is extorting others over patents, often...
India Requires Internet Services to Collect and Store Vast Amount of Customer Data, Building a Path to Mass Surveillance
Privacy and online free expression are once again under threat in India, thanks to vaguely worded cybersecurity directions—promulgated by India’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) earlier this year—that impose draconian mass surveillance obligations on internet services, threatening privacy and anonymity and weakening security online.Directions 20(3)/2022 -...
How to Make a Mastodon Account and Join the Fediverse
International Coalition of Rights Groups Call on Internet Infrastructure Providers to Avoid Content Policing
San Francisco—Internet infrastructure services—the heart of a secure and resilient internet where free speech and expression flows—should continue to focus their energy on making the web an essential resource for users and, with rare exceptions, avoid content policing. Such intervention often causes more harm than good, EFF and its partners...
Let Data Breach Victims Sue Marriott
A company harvested your personal data, but failed to take basic steps to secure it. So thieves stole it. Now you’ve lost control of your data, and you’re at greater risk of identity theft. But when you sue the negligent company, they say you haven’t really been injured, so you...
