Unblinking Eyes: The State of Communications Surveillance in Latin America
Comprehensive Legal Reform Needed to Restrain Widespread Surveillance in Latin America
San Francisco - The people of Latin America need comprehensive legal reform to protect themselves from unlawful government surveillance, according to a new series of reports published by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
The reports apply the “Necessary and Proportionate” Principles to surveillance practices in twelve different countries in...
USA FREEDOM Act Requires Government to Declassify Any Order to Yahoo
In the wake of reports this week that the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) ordered Yahoo to scan all of its users’ email in 2015, there are many unanswered legal and technical questions about the mass surveillance.
But before we can even begin to answer them, there...
Briefing Unsealed in Court Battle Over National Security Letters
San Francisco - An appeals court published redacted briefing by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today arguing that national security letters (NSLs) and their accompanying gag orders violate the free speech rights of companies who want to keep their users informed about government surveillance.
EFF represents two service providers...
FCC Helped Create the Stingray Problem, Now it Needs to Fix It
FCC Helped Create the Stingray Problem, Now it Needs to Fix It
It is long overdue for the FCC to address Stingrays' impact on speech, interference with 911 calls, and invasion of privacy.
FCC Helped Create the Stingray Problem, Now it Needs to Fix It
It is long overdue for the FCC to address Stingrays' impact on speech, interference with 911...
Google Changes Its Tune When it Comes to Tracking Students
Honoring Visionaries at the 25th Annual Pioneer Awards
Since 1992, EFF’s annual Pioneer Awards celebration has honored those who expanded freedom and innovation on what was dubbed the electronic frontier—a bleeding edge of technology intersecting with the rights of users. Today we understand better than ever that digital privacy and free expression are fundamental elements of democracy and...
How Big Pharma's Shadow Regulation Censors the Internet
Americans pay by far the highest prices in the world for most prescription drugs, and of course big pharma would like to keep it that way. Key measures that the industry relies upon in this regard are the Prescription Drug Marketing Act [PDF] and Ryan Haight Online Pharmacy...
Google Changes Its Tune When it Comes to Tracking Students
Now that schools are back in full swing, we thought it would be a good time to check in on what’s happened in the student privacy world since we submitted our FTC complaint about Google’s practices a little under a year ago.
The main complaint in our...
