Coalition Asks California's Governor Newsom to Support Fiber Broadband for All
The Electronic Frontier Foundation recently joined several California-based ISPs, tech companies, non-profits, and local governments to commend Governor Newsom for adopting a “Broadband for All” vision. But simply saying “broadband” without a clear eye towards the future risks having government policies adopt infrastructure plans that work in the short run,...
Protecting Civil Liberties During a Public Health Crisis
Across the world, public health authorities are working to contain the spread of COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease 2019). In pursuit of this urgent and necessary task, many government agencies are collecting and analyzing personal information about large numbers of identifiable people, including their health, travel, and personal relationships. As our...
Victory: Android 11 Rolls out Improved Certificate Warnings
Now that HTTPS encrypts over 80% of web connections, powerful actors are targeting root certificate stores to compromise our security and surveil us. In the past year alone, that’s included a “market research” company secretly owned by Facebook and the government of Kazakhstan.Forcing users to...
Coalition letter to Governor Newsom to Support Fiber Broadband and Open Access
Letter from EFF joined by California based ISPs, tech startups, non-profits, and local government advocates calling on Governor Newsom to adopt fiber infrastructure and open access policies as part of his Broadband for All initiative.
NGO Community Urges ICANN to Scrutinize the .ORG Sale
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is reviewing the proposed sale of the .ORG domain registry to private equity firm Ethos Capital, and ICANN has the power to stop the sale. EFF and several other organizations joined a public forum today as part of ICANN’s winter...
Public’s Right to Access Court Proceedings Calls For Livestreaming Hearing in Notorious Patent Troll Case
Washington, D.C.—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today urged a panel of judges at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to take a stand for open access to judicial proceedings and allow the public to watch by video an upcoming hearing in a patent case involving Apple.EFF is...
Tech Lobbyists Are Pushing Bad Privacy Bills. Washington State Can, and Must, Do Better.
Ninth Circuit: Private Social Media Platforms Are Not Bound by the First Amendment
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently held in Prager University v. Google that YouTube is not a government actor bound by First Amendment limits simply because it hosts a forum for public speech. Rather, as EFF argued in an amicus brief, YouTube is a...
.ORG Isn’t Broken, and We Don’t Need Private Equity to ‘Fix’ It
Ethos Capital—the private equity firm poised to purchase the .ORG domain registry for $1.1 billion—and Public Interest Registry (PIR, the entity Ethos wants to buy) have been attempting to respond to the concerns raised by the .ORG community. These after-the-fact changes just make clear that while there is nothing...
Internet Loses One of its Biggest, Best Advocates: EFF Special Counsel Jim Tyre
EFF has just learned that our dear friend Special Counsel Jim Tyre—one of the biggest and best Internet advocates you may never have heard of—has passed away.UPDATE:The funeral will be on Sunday at 12:00 noon, Hillside Memorial Park and Mortuary, 6001 W Centinela Ave, Los Angeles CA 90045We are...
