H.R. 2666 Would Undermine FCC’s Charge to Protect the Open Internet

In a disappointing turn of events, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 241 to 173 to pass H.R. 2666, the No Rate Regulation of Broadband Internet Access Act, a bill that would undermine the FCC’s ability to...

The U.S. White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is considering a new policy for sharing source code for software created by or for government projects. There’s a lot to love about the proposed policy: it would make it easier for people to find and reuse government software,...

The Supreme Court of Justice of Mexico (SCJN) is about to issue its decision on an injunction against a provision of the Federal Telecommunications Act (also known as Ley Telecom) that requires telephone companies and internet service providers to retain data about their users’ communications for a period of 24...

What We Know about the Vulnerabilities Equities Process and Government Hacking
Since the FBI’s announcement last month that it had successfully accessed data on a locked iPhone used in the San Bernardino shootings, there has been intense speculation about exactly how the Bureau got in. If you had...

The California Assembly Committee on Privacy and Consumer Protection has scuttled A.B. 1681, the anti-smartphone encryption bill that EFF has been fighting against for the last few months. The bill was unable to get a second in committee, so it died without a formal vote.
A.B. 1681 was...

This week, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held, in United States v. Carpenter, that we lack any privacy interest in the location information generated by our cell phones. The opinion shows a complete disregard for the sensitive and revealing nature of cell site location information...