Canadian Court Order Censoring Everyone’s Google Search Results Must Be Overturned, EFF Tells Supreme Court of Canada
Ottawa, Ontario—A Canadian court order forcing Google to block certain websites from its search results around the world sets a dangerous precedent for online free expression, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) said today.
Weighing in on a trade secret case that could have dramatic implications for free speech on...
Yahoo Email Surveillance: the Next Front in the Fight Against Mass Surveillance
Yahoo Email Surveillance: the Next Front in the Fight Against Mass Surveillance
In a bombshell published today, Reuters is reporting that, in 2015, Yahoo complied with an order it received from the U.S. government to search all of its users’ incoming emails, in real time.
There’s still much that we don’t know at this point, but if the report is...
No One Owns Invisible Disabilities
The purpose of registered trademarks is to protect people. When you buy a bottle of Club-Mate, the trademark affords you some certainty that what you’re buying is the product you already know and love and not that of a sneaky impostor. But when the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office...
Google’s Allo Sends The Wrong Message About Encryption
When Google announced its new Allo messaging app, we were initially pleased to see the company responding to long-standing consumer demand for user-friendly, secure messaging. Unfortunately, it now seems that Google's response may cause more harm than good. While Allo does expose more users to end-to-end encrypted messaging, this potential...
Tell HP: Still a long way to go to make up for breaking our printers
Last Monday, we published our open letter to Hewlett-Packard CEO Dion Weisler, and more than 10,000 of you promptly stepped up to sign it, telling the company that you agree that it is absolutely unacceptable for a company to send out deceptive "security" updates that...
Oversight Transition Isn't Giving Away the Internet, But Won't Fix ICANN's Problems
At midnight last Saturday morning, Washington DC time, oversight over the performance of ICANN's IANA functions—notably its maintenance of the root zone database of the Internet's domain name system (DNS)—passed from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to ICANN's global multi-stakeholder community.
Despite several weeks of heated...
Fair Processes, Better Outcomes
Yesterday we exposed the dangers of Shadow Regulation; the secretive web of backroom agreements between companies that seeks to control our behavior online, often driven by governments as a shortcut and less accountable alternative to regulation.
Today we are proposing a set of criteria, summarized in the infographic...
Stupid Design Patent of the Month: Rectangles on a Screen
On October 11, 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments in the long-running Apple-Samsung litigation. The issue is whether Apple, by virtue of having its design patents infringed by Samsung, is entitled to all of Samsung’s profits made from the infringing phones (regardless of how...
EFF Asks Court to Block U.S. From Prosecuting Security Researcher For Detecting and Publishing Computer Vulnerabilities
Washington, D.C.—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) asked a court Thursday for an order that would prevent the government from prosecuting its client, security researcher Matthew Green, for publishing a book about making computer systems more secure.
Green is writing a book about methods of...
