We Made the Message Loud and Clear: Stop the Rule 41 Updates
It's Not Too Late to Write to Congress About the Disastrous Rule Change
What happens when you try to push a dangerous policy through without the Internet noticing? The Internet fights back.
A few days ago, we warned of an impending rule change that...
How Do We Achieve an Open, Secure, Trustworthy, and Inclusive Internet?
Today at the OECD Ministerial Meeting on the Digital Economy in Mexico, the Global Commission on Internet Governance released its final report, One Internet. Despite its important-sounding name, the Commission is not an official body, but a think tank convened in 2014 by the Center for...
Jewel v. NSA Moves Forward—Time For NSA To Answer Basic Questions About Mass Surveillance
It’s time to lift the cloak of secrecy that has until now shielded the NSA from judicial scrutiny. EFF served the agency with information requests late last week in Jewel v. NSA, EFF’s signature case challenging government surveillance. Since we filed the case in 2008, leaks about government...
EFF Urges Citizens, Websites to Fight Rule Changes Expanding Government Powers to Break Into Users’ Computers
San Francisco—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the Tor Project, and dozens of other organizations are calling today on citizens and website operators to take action to block a new rule pushed by the U.S. Justice Department that would greatly expand the government’s ability to hack users’ computers and interfere with...
Happy Birthday Alice: Two Years Busting Bad Software Patents
House Leaders Politicize a Tragedy to Block Bipartisan Surveillance Reforms
After hurdling procedural barriers, a congressional attempt to protect privacy and encryption failed on the House floor yesterday, falling short of a majority by a mere 24 votes.
Warrants are not difficult to secure when appropriate. They prevent the government from abusing its powers, as it repeatedly...
Are You a SLAPP Victim? Tell Your Story to Congress
Next week, the House Judiciary Committee will finally hold a hearing on the SPEAK FREE Act (H.R. 2304), over a year after the bill was introduced in the Congress. We support the SPEAK FREE Act, which would help protect victims of strategic lawsuits against public participation,...
Rule 41
Help Us Stop the Updates to Rule 41
EFF Calls for a Day of Action on June 21. Please join us.
The Department of Justice is using an obscure procedure to push through a rule change that will greatly increase law enforcement’s ability to hack into computers located around the world. It’s an update to Rule...
Rule 41 Day of Action June 21
Planning to help us stop the changes to Rule 41? Great! Just tell us what you're doing.
