Stupid Patents of the Month: Taxi Dispatch Tech
With all the attention ride-sharing has been getting lately, some might think Uber and Lyft were highly inventive apps. But according to at least one company, the apps are just highly infringing. Who’s right? Probably neither.
Hailo Technologies, LLC (“Hailo”) has recently sued both Uber and Lyft, alleging they...
Who Has Your Back in Brazil? Second Annual Report Shows Telecom Privacy Slowly Improving
Today InternetLab, Brazil’s leading digital rights organization, released their 2017 report on local telecommunications companies, and how they treat their customer's private information. Brazil’s “Quem defende seus dados?” (“Who Defends Your Data?”) seeks to encourage companies to compete for users by showing who will stand up for their...
EFF Urges Further Reforms for California's Unfair Gang Databases
When California Gov. Jerry Brown signed A.B. 2298 last year, it marked a major victory for civil liberties against faulty law enforcement technology. The legislation instituted key reforms for the CalGang system and other shared gang databases used by police to link people to criminal organizations based...
Another Lawsuit Tries To Force An ISP Into Being A Copyright Cop
Major record labels are once again trying to force an Internet service provider into enforcing their copyrights by cutting off customers from the Internet over copyright accusations. The suit is led by a group of record labels including UMG Recordings, Warner Brothers Records, Sony Music Entertainment, and Arista Music. The...
Register of Copyrights Bill Passes the House, We’re Gearing Up to Fight it in the Senate
The U.S. House of Representatives today voted 378 to 48 to pass a controversial bill that would make the Register of Copyrights a presidential appointee. H.R. 1695, the Register of Copyrights Selection and Accountability Act of 2017, will effectively strip the Librarian of Congress of oversight over the Register, and...
FCC Announces Plan to Abandon Net Neutrality and ISP Privacy
Today, the chairman of the FCC announced his desire to abandon the agency’s net neutrality protections – which protect online competition, free speech, and privacy from interference by Internet service providers like Comcast and AT&T – by undermining the legal authority behind those protections.
Rolling back the FCC’s...
No Gathering Social Media Handles from Chinese Visitors
EFF has joined a coalition effort, led by Asian Americans Advancing Justice (AAAJ), to oppose the federal government’s proposal to scrutinize the social media activities of Chinese visitors. Specifically, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) seeks to ask certain visa applicants from China to disclose the existence of...
The FCC Wants to Eliminate Net Neutrality Protections. We Can't Let That Happen.
EFF and Allies Write to Congress: FCC Chairman Pai's Network Neutrality Plan Unworkable
EFF and a coalition of other groups wrote a letter to Congress today detailing the failings of Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai's reported—but undisclosed—network neutrality plan and requesting that lawmakers hold hearings over any FCC plans for the Internet.
So far, media outlets have reported...
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