Fighting for the Internet: Two Big Thank Yous
Two major grassroots campaigns show not only the depth of public concern about protecting the Internet from the FCC under Ajit Pai, they’ve reaffirmed EFF’s ongoing work to push back and make sure the Internet remains free.
In March, Congress sparked widespread outrage by voting to repeal the...
Why California Urgently Needs Surveillance Transparency
A version of this commentary appeared in the San Diego Union-Tribune on May 27, 2017.
In the summer of 2015, a local resident joined a nationwide project to uncover how police use face recognition devices. He filed a public records request with the city...
EFF and Broad Coalition Call for Day of Action to Defend Net Neutrality
Net neutrality is under assault once again, with the Federal Communications Commission looking to reverse the 2015 Open Internet Order by stripping away its legal foundations. That’s right: less than two years after the FCC finally adopted a legally viable Open Internet Order, and less than one year after...
EFF Asks Supreme Court To Review Dangerous Interpretation of Computer Crime Statute
Washington, D.C.—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urged the U.S. Supreme Court to review a ruling that threatens to transform a law against computer break-ins into a mechanism for criminalizing password sharing and policing Internet use.
In an amicus brief filed with today, EFF urged the court to...
The Maldives Government Issued Arrest Warrants for Bloggers on Twitter
Supreme Court Will Hear Significant Cell Phone Tracking Case
Today the Supreme Court announced it will review United States v. Carpenter, a case involving long-term, retrospective tracking of a person’s movements using information generated by his cell phone. This is very exciting news in the world of digital privacy. With Carpenter, the Court has an opportunity to continue its...
Don't Be Fooled by the Comcast PR Machine: It Has Always Opposed Internet Freedom
Years of lobbying and litigation has made it clear Comcast wants to turn the Internet into a toll road and run the booth
If you have signed onto Twitter and have been following the network neutrality debate, you've probably seen Comcast's campaign to rewrite its history of opposition...
Expansive Protections Against Police Abuses Win Approval in Providence
Update [6/8/2017]: This post was updated to include a quote from a local organizer and the names of several supporting local organizations.On Thursday night, the capital of the smallest state in the union adopted a wide-ranging police reform measure with national and historic implications. The Providence City Council ...
Hearing Tuesday: EFF Asks California Supreme Court To Allow the Public Access to License Plate Reader Data Collected By Los Angeles Police
Los Angeles—On Tuesday, June 6, at 9:30 am, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the ACLU Foundation of Southern California will argue that license plate data, collected by police indiscriminately on millions of drivers each day, are not investigative records that police can shield from public scrutiny.
Automated License Plate...
NLPC's False Report Diverts Attention from the Concerns of Real Net Neutrality Supporters
We learned this Wednesday of a report [PDF] by the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) that claimed EFF submitted over 100,000 fake comments to the FCC's net neutrality docket, using fake names, email addresses, and physical addresses. Since we’ve started to get questions about NLPC’s report, we...
