2015 Pioneer Awards Features Internet Champs, Privacy Advocates, Malware Hunters, and Ed Snowden
Join us at the 24th annual Pioneer Awards to celebrate those who fight to clear the way for online freedom!
Next Thursday, we'll gather in San Francisco to proudly honor this year's winners: late international privacy expert Caspar Bowden, global human rights and security researchers The Citizen Lab, international...
One Small Certificate for the Web, One Giant Certificate Authority for Web Encryption
EFF Urges Department of Justice Not to Fund LAPD’s Body Cameras
Next week the Department of Justice will likely decide whether to issue a grant to the Los Angeles Police Department to purchase 700 body-worn video cameras. Because LAPD’s body camera policy fails to ensure accountability and transparency and would, in fact, hide almost all camera footage from the public,...
Takedown Senders Must Consider Fair Use, Ninth Circuit Rules
A federal appeals court sided with EFF yesterday on several of the major questions at issue in the long-running Lenz v. Universal copyright case. Lenz—sometimes referred to as the “Dancing Baby” case because it centers on a 29-second home video of a toddler dancing with a song by...
Calling All Network Engineers and Computer Scientists: Help Defend Net Neutrality
Are you a computer scientist? A network engineer? Have you developed a new web-based protocol? If so, we want you to sign on to a statement [PDF] explaining to the DC Circuit Court that openness and neutrality are fundamental to how the Internet was designed and how it operates...
Important Win for Fair Use in ‘Dancing Baby’ Lawsuit
One Small Certificate for the Web, One Giant Certificate Authority for Web Encryption
Celebrating the First Certificate From Let’s Encrypt
Today we mark an important milestone in our march to encrypt all of the Web: the first-ever certificate issued by Let’s Encrypt.
Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated, open-source certificate authority (CA). The goal is to revolutionize encryption on...
Senate Judiciary Committee Finally Focuses on ECPA Reform
On Wednesday, September 16, nine months into the 114th Congress, the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on reforming the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), the federal law that regulates government access to private communications records stored by third parties.
Right now, the statute allows the government to...
Important Win for Fair Use in ‘Dancing Baby’ Lawsuit
San Francisco – A federal appeals court in San Francisco today affirmed that copyright holders must consider whether a use of material is fair before sending a takedown notice. The ruling came in Lenz v. Universal, often called the “dancing baby” lawsuit.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) represents Stephanie...
Heightened Trade Secrets Restrictions Could Chill Global Speech
Trade secrets are seeing a resurgence of attention by policymakers at home and around the world. While there can be legitimate reasons to keep commercially valuable information secret, particularly amongst those with whom it has been shared in confidence, the latest trade secrets push goes further, potentially entangling whistleblowers and...
