For the fifth day of the 12 Days of 2FA, we turn to the world’s largest social media platform: Facebook. Facebook calls its two-factor authentication “Login Approvals,” but the idea is exactly the same: signing in from a new browser will require something you have (like your phone) as...

New Law Will Help Preserve Net Neutrality and Privacy at the Local Level

San Francisco EFFers: you did it! Thanks in part to your phone calls and tweets to the Board of Supervisors, the Board unanimously passed an ordinance last night that will address the problem of landlords...

The Supreme Court has granted certiorari in TC Heartland v. Kraft Foods, a case that effectively asks the court to decide whether patent owners can sue in practically any corner of the country. EFF supported TC Heartland, the petitioner, at the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit...

Should IP rights be enforced via shadow regulations that aren’t vetted or endorsed by users? According to a just-released report, the U.S. Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator (IPEC) thinks they should. We disagree.
We’ve written here about the danger posed by Internet regulation done through private agreements. These agreements,...

When should the government engage in “remote searches” of computers—i.e., government “hacking” to seize, infiltrate and/or search digital devices—and when should it use less invasive investigative methods? Changes to Rule 41 of Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure went into effect on Dec. 1, making it easier than ever for law...

Red en Defensa de los Derechos Digitales (R3D)—the leading Mexican digital rights organization—has released the 2016 ¿Quién defiende mis datos? report, which evaluates how well Mexican telecommunications companies protect their customers’ privacy. R3D’s second annual report examines publicly-available policies from eight of the biggest telecommunications companies: AT&T,...

The last email service we’ll cover in the 12 Days of 2FA is Outlook.com. If we haven’t covered your email service here, check twofactorauth.org’s more extensive list of email platforms that offer two-factor authentication. If you only enable 2FA for one account, email is a good choice...

EFF is excited to announce that today we are releasing Privacy Badger 2.0 for Chrome, Firefox, and Opera. Privacy Badger is a browser extension that automatically blocks hidden third-party trackers that would otherwise follow you around the web and spy on your browsing habits. Privacy Badger now has approximately 900,000...