EFF Takes on The Eleventh HOPE
EFF staffers will spread the online freedom message at 2600 Magazine's biennial Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) conference from July 22 to July 24. The Eleventh HOPE will take place at the historic Hotel Pennsylvania in New York and host numerous presentations on such diverse topics as automobile software hacking,...
Hundreds of Thousands Call on Leader Pelosi to Block the Undemocratic TPP
EFF has joined with partners including MoveOn, CREDO, Daily Kos, and Demand Progress to call on Democratic Party Leader Nancy Pelosi to stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) from going to a vote during the "lame duck" session of Congress following the November election.
As we explained in a...
Summer Security Reboot
UNWGAD to Egyptian Government: Free Alaa
FBI Must Not Sidestep Privacy Protections For Massive Collection of Biometric Data
San Francisco—The FBI, which has created a massive database of biometric information on millions of Americans never involved in a crime, mustn’t be allowed to shield this trove of personal information from Privacy Act rules that let people learn what data the government has on them and restrict how it...
EFF and ACLU-led Coalition Opposes Dangerous “Model” Employee and Student “Privacy” Legislation
EFF, ACLU, and a coalition of nearly two-dozen civil liberties and advocacy organizations and a union representative are urging the Uniform Law Commission (ULC) to vote down dangerous model employee and student privacy legislation.
The bill, the Employee and Student Online Privacy Protection Act (ESOPPA), is ostensibly...
With Canada’s Entry, Treaty for the Blind Will Come Into Force
Patents: The Next Open Access Fight
When Universities Sell Patents to Trolls, Publicly Funded Research Is Compromised
There’s been a lot of talk lately about the state of publicly funded research. Many, including EFF, have long called on Congress to pass a law requiring that publicly funded research be made available to the public.
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With Canada’s Entry, Treaty for the Blind Will Come Into Force
EFF Capture the Flag at the Eleventh HOPE
EFF is excited to announce that we will be running a "Capture the Flag" hacking contest at The Eleventh HOPE! This will be a Jeopardy Style CTF with a number of challenges and puzzles to solve for points. The challenges will include web hacking, reverse engineering, cryptography, forensics,...
