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,...
Alaa Abd El Fattah Must Be Released, Says UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
Making Sense of a Troubling Decision: New Court Ruling Underscores the Need to Stop the Changes to Rule 41
We wrote about a case last week that was deeply disturbing: a federal court in the Eastern District of Virginia held that individuals have no reasonable expectation of privacy in a personal computer located inside their home. In this court’s view, the FBI is free to hack into networked...
Open Digital Trade Project Survey
This questionnaire is for members of the Open Digital Trade Network to enable us to improve the usefulness of the platform. Individual results will not be shared outside of EFF and you can contribute anonymously.
With Canada’s Entry, Treaty for the Blind Will Come Into Force
A groundbreaking international agreement to address the “book famine” for blind and print-disabled people is now set to go into force after passing another key milestone today. The agreement requires countries to allow the reproduction and distribution of accessible ebooks by limiting the scope of copyright restrictions.
The Marrakesh...
Stupid Patent of the Month: Storage Cabinets on a Computer
How do you store your paper files? Perhaps you leave them scattered on your desk or piled on the floor. If you’re more organized, you might keep them in a cabinet. This month’s stupid patent, US Patent No. 6,690,400 (the ’400 patent), claims the idea of using “virtual cabinets”...
Racial Bias and Arrest Tech
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court took away a little more of your right to be free from unlawful police searches. In a 5-3 decision in Utah v. Strieff, the Court held that if the police illegally stop and search you, they can use against you any evidence they...
No Privacy Rollback for the FBI’s Biometric Mega-Database
Supreme Court Gives More Leeway to Lower Courts on Patents and Copyright: Will Lower Courts Champion Innovation?
The Supreme Court decided two patent cases and one copyright case this month. If the three cases have a unifying theme, it is that the Supreme Court gave more deference to fact-finding tribunals, whether that is the Patent Office or district courts. We discuss each of the three rulings below.
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