Some Good News About CISA: It Doesn’t Include Senator Whitehouse's Dangerous CFAA Amendment
Update: The final text of CISA is being negotiated right now. Take action here.
CISA passed out of the Senate by a disappointing vote of 74-21 last week. The bill has already passed out of the House, and now it goes to a conference committee to...
FBI Returns Seized Devices to EFF Client
EFF is pleased to announce that our client, Chris Roberts, is now in the possession of all of his digital devices that had been held by the FBI since April 2015.
Earlier this year, Mr. Roberts was detained for tweeting about airplane network security. When he landed in...
EFF Challenges Informal Government Censorship
EFF, along with the Center for Democracy & Technology and the Association of Alternative Newsmedia, submitted an amicus brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in the case of Backpage.com v. Dart.
Backpage.com sued Thomas Dart, the sheriff of Cook County, Illinois, arguing...
What a (not) Nice Surprise: Eagles Target Political Ad
Don Henley and Glenn Frey's attorneys submitted a YouTube counter-notice and issued a cease & desist letter threatening massive copyright liability damages to A political ad supporting a voter proposition regulating private "hotel-like" short-term rentals, Prop F. At issue was a parody song "Hotel California," titled "Hotel San Francisco."The takedown...
EFF Asks Supreme Court to Apply First Amendment to Speech About Celebrities
Imagine if public figures were given veto power over creative works that depicted or referenced them. Every biographer would need permission from his or her subject. Every documentary film producer would need to run the film by the people featured in it. Every cartoonist would need permission for every caricature....
California Cops Are Using These Biometric Gadgets in the Field
Facebook's New Name Policy Changes are Progress, Not Perfection
Facebook has responded to an October 5 open letter from a global coalition, including EFF, about its broken “authentic name policy.” Facebook’s response is a step in the right direction. It's also not the last change to the policy we’ll see, since Facebook notes “we’re making changes now...
Release of the Full TPP Text After Five Years of Secrecy Confirms Threats to Users’ Rights
EFF at Congressional Roundtable: Do U.S. Copyright Laws Work in the Digital Age?
Santa Clara, California—On Monday, Nov. 9, at 2 p.m., Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Staff Attorney Kit Walsh will participate in a roundtable discussion about U.S. copyright laws convened by the House Judiciary Committee, which is undertaking the first comprehensive review of the nation’s copyright laws since the 1960s.
Copyright...
Release of the Full TPP Text After Five Years of Secrecy Confirms Threats to Users’ Rights
Update [11/9/2015]: President Obama formally notified Congress of his intent to sign the TPP on Thursday November 5—90 days after which he may sign the agreement and send the agreement to Congress for ratification.
Trade offices involved in negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement have finally released...
