Entertainment Distributors’ Push For Site-Blocking Power Get More Extreme
Major entertainment companies are asking the courts for more and more power over the basic operation of the Internet. On Tuesday, the major U.S. record labels filed suit against a Florida startup called Aurous, which is developing a music player application that uses BitTorrent. We’ve all seen this...
Third Circuit to the City of New York: Being Muslim is not Reasonable Suspicion for Surveillance
Being Muslim can’t be the basis for law enforcement surveillance. That was the message from the Third Circuit on Tuesday when it told the plaintiffs in Hassan v. The City of New York that their lawsuit could go forward. The plaintiffs are suing over the New York Police...
Research Shows How NSA Exploits Flaws to Decrypt Huge Amounts of Communications Instead of Securing the Internet
According to an award-winning paper presented at a security conference earlier this week by a group of prominent cryptographers, the NSA has likely used its access to vast computing power as well as weaknesses in the commonly used TLS security protocol in order to spy on encrypted communications, including...
There's No DRM in JPEG—Let's Keep It That Way
Success in Sacramento: Four New Laws, One Veto—All Victories for Privacy and Transparency
There’s an adage that goes: “As goes California, so goes the nation.” In all fairness, that’s said about a lot of states, but we believe it is especially true for California, since not only is the Golden State bigger in population and GDP than most sovereign nations, but because so...
Brazil's Politicians Aim to Add Mandatory Real Names and a Right to Erase History to the Marco Civil
The Marco Civil Da Internet, Brazil's Internet bill of rights, was a unique achievement in modern law. Net users, academics, technologists, businesses and representatives of government all contributed to it in a lengthy consultation process, conducted using the very technology it was constructed to defend. Its...
Internet Companies: Confusing Consumers for Profit
A shorter version of this post ran as an op-ed in the San Jose Mercury News on October 6, 2015.
The ubiquitous blue “Like” or “Share” buttons that you see all over the Internet are hiding an ugly secret. Starting this month, Facebook will use them to...
Ada Lovelace Day: Celebrating the Achievements of Women in Technology
Myths the NSA Wants You To Believe About Mass Spying
EFF, along with the Center for Democracy and Technology and others, have created a "Myths v. Facts" sheet about one of the main laws used to spy on innocent, unrelated, users: Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The document is a response to the United States...
EFF Welcomes Barak Weinstein Back to the Team
Meet Barak Weinstein, EFF’s new executive assistant. Barak will be assisting EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn and EFF Deputy Executive Director and General Counsel Kurt Opsahl. This is Barak's second tour at EFF—he was EFF's first legal secretary a decade ago, and he's excited to be back with the organization.
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