EFF Provides Evidence to Courts of Verizon Wireless, Sprint and AT&T Participation in NSA Spying
This week EFF presented evidence in two of its NSA cases confirming the participation of Verizon Wireless, Sprint and AT&T in the NSA's mass telephone records collection under the Patriot Act. This is important because, despite broad public acknowledgement, the government is still claiming that it can dismiss our cases...
OKCupid Still Dragging Its Heels On HTTPS
Popular Dating Site Has No Love for Strong Security
Back in 2012, EFF first called out OKCupid for failing to safeguard user data by not implementing HTTPS site-wide.
Three years later, OKCupid still hasn’t fixed the problem. For users who haven’t upgraded to paid accounts, their emails,...
More Closed-Door Meetings, a New Chief Transparency Officer, and Growing International Opposition to the Deal: What's Going on with the TPP
Over the past month, trade officials have been frantically working to resolve outstanding disagreements over provisions in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in the midst of speculation that the deal is in deep trouble. At this late stage of negotiations, the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) has pretty much abandoned...
Library Suspends Tor Node After DHS Intimidation
Update September 15, 2015: The Kilton Library board has met and, after hearing from Tor supporters in the community and the 4,314 people who signed our petition, have unanimously opted to reinstate the library's relay. Congratulations to the activists from the Tor Project and the Library Freedom Project who've worked...
Community to Lawmakers: Stop the Showcase of Military and Surveillance Technology in Alameda County
Disturbing displays of military and surveillance equipment being used by state and local police have become commonplace. So it’s not hard to imagine why Urban Shield, a four-day long “preparedness” exercise and equipment exhibition coordinated by the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department, was asked not to return to Oakland...
EFF Pushes Back Against State Law Copyright Expansion in California
Yesterday, EFF filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, pushing back against a district court decision that expanded state law copyrights in pre-1972 sound recordings. This may sound familiar: we recently filed a similar brief in the Second Circuit. In both cases,...
Welcome Frank Stanton Legal Fellow Aaron Mackey
EFF welcomes our newest staff member Aaron Mackey to the team. Aaron joins us as a Frank Stanton Legal Fellow (along with current Stanton Fellow Jamie Williams), for a two-year fellowship sponsored by the Stanton Foundation. He and his family spent the last three years in Washington, D.C., where...
EFF Asks New Jersey’s Supreme Court to Maintain State’s Commitment to Privacy
The Attorney General’s Office of New Jersey is on a crusade to dismantle the important search and seizure protections afforded to the state’s citizens. As part of the latest assault on individual rights to due process, in State v. Lunsford, the attorney general has asked the New Jersey Supreme Court...
EFF Urges Appeals Court To Toughen Privacy Protections for Devices at the Border
Richmond, Virginia—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is urging a federal appeals court to rule that government agents need a warrant to search cell phones, computers, and other personal electronic devices at the border.
In an amicus brief filed today in the United States Court of Appeals for...
EFF to ICANN: Privacy Must be Purposeful—Not an Afterthought
The working group at Internet Corporation for Assignment of Names and Number (ICANN) that has been tasked with designing a new domain registration database can’t seem to wrap its head around why privacy matters when it comes to domain registration services. ICANN’s Expert Working Group on gTLD Registration Directory...
