The NSA Continues to Blame Technology for Breaking the Law
UPDATE September 14, 2018: This blog has been updated at the bottom to include information about two Senators’ reactions to the NSA’s call detail record deletion.In late June, the NSA announced a magic trick—hundreds of millions of collected call records would disappear. Its lovely assistant? Straight from the agency’s statement:...
Chelsea Manning Continues Fight Against Unfair Hacking Charge
Whistleblower Chelsea Manning was released from prison more than a year ago, after former President Barack Obama commuted her sentence for releasing military and diplomatic records to WikiLeaks. But her case still continues, as Manning wants to appeal her original conviction—including one charge under a controversial a federal...
Offline: Dareen Tatour
Poet, photographer, activist, Israel
Arrested: October 11, 2015
Convicted: May 3, 2018
Released: September 20, 2018
EFF tells Patent Office not to seek loopholes in Supreme Court patent rules
Since the Supreme Court’s 2014 Alice v. CLS Bank decision, courts have invalidated hundreds of patents that should never have been issued. Unfortunately, the Patent Office may restrict the impact of that ruling on patent applications under examination.The Patent Office has issued a request for comment on a...
Victory! California Passes Net Neutrality Bill
California’s net neutrality bill, S.B. 822 has received a majority of votes in the Senate and is heading to the governor’s desk. In this fight, ISPs with millions of dollars to spend lost to the voice of the majority of Americans who support net neutrality. This is a victory...
A Click on a URL Isn’t Enough for a Search Warrant
San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has asked an appeals court to ensure that a click on a URL isn’t enough to get a search warrant for your house.In U.S. v. Nikolai Bosyk, law enforcement discovered a link to a file-sharing service that was suspected of being used...
After Patent Office Rejection, It is Time For Google To Abandon Its Attempt to Patent Use of Public Domain Algorithm
At EFF, we often criticize software patents that claim small variations on known techniques. These include a patent on updating software over the Internet, a patent on out-of-office email, and a patent on storing data in a database. Now, Google is trying to patent the use of...
You Did It: California Net Neutrality Passes State Assembly
Update 8-30-2018: The vote count was updated to reflect the final vote count. After a long and hard-fought battle, one where you made your voices heard, California’s Assembly passed S.B. 822, the net neutrality bill. But we’re not quite done yet.In a bipartisan vote of 61-18, S.B....
EFF To Maine, Massachusetts Courts: Rule Requiring Warrants to Access Cell Phone Location Data Applies to Real-Time Searches
Portland, Maine—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the ACLU are urging the state’s highest courts in Massachusetts and Maine to rule that law enforcement agents need a warrant to access real-time location information from cell phones, a clear application of a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling from June.EFF, in partnership...
