EFF Strongly Opposes CISA Cyber Surveillance Bill and CFAA Amendment
Update: The Senate advanced CISA 85-14. You can see how your Senator voted here. Amendments to CISA will be voted on Monday. After a final vote early next week in the Senate, CISA will move to a conference committee where House and Senate leaders will resolve differences between the...
By Accepting Chinese Censorship of Domains, Registry xyz.com Invites More
Update, November 4: The CEO of .xyz has written to deny that any domains would be blocked by their registry, as their proposal had suggested. Whether this had been a miscommunication in the proposal, or is a reversal of their previous position, we welcome the now unambiguous statement...
California Leads the Way in Digital Privacy
Tech Industry Trade Groups Are Coming Out Against CISA. We Need Individual Companies To Do The Same
How Trade Agreements Harm Open Access and Open Source
Open access isn't explicitly covered in any of the secretive trade negotiations that are currently underway, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), and the Trade In Services Agreement (TISA). But that doesn't mean that they won't have a negative impact on those seeking to...
Voluntary Practices and Rights Protection Mechanisms: Whitewashing Censorship at ICANN
Perhaps the toughest challenge facing any putatively multi-stakeholder governance process is its capture by vested interests. ICANN is a textbook illustration of this. Ever since its formation, public interest advocates have been engaged in a struggle to assert their influence within ICANN against an onslaught of intellectual property lobbyists,...
U.S. Bypasses ICANN Debates on Domain Privacy with Closed Room Deals at the OECD and TPP
Today ICANN's GNSO Privacy & Proxy Services Accreditation Issues Working Group is discussing the comments that EFF and thousands of others made in response to proposals to clamp down on the availability of privacy proxy services by domain registrants. Those plans could have prevented registrants from using such services...
Tech Industry Trade Groups Are Coming Out Against CISA. We Need Individual Companies To Do The Same
EFF Seeks Rehearing in Dancing Baby Case to Ensure Fair Use Gets Real Protection
Today EFF filed a petition asking the Ninth Circuit to revisit some aspects of its big decision in Lenz v. Universal, also known as the dancing baby case. While we celebrated parts of the court’s ruling—particularly the holding that copyright owners must consider fair use before...
