Ashley Madison’s Owners Give In to Temptation To Misuse The DMCA
Copyright is a poor tool for making embarrassing information disappear from the Internet. It rarely succeeds, and often draws more attention to whatever was embarrassing or harmful. Copyright isn’t designed for keeping secrets (in fact, it was generally meant to do the exact opposite by encouraging disclosure). Yet people keep...
Once Again, Megaupload User Asks Court for His Files Back
Three years ago now, EFF’s client Kyle Goodwin, a sports videographer, asked the court to allow him to retrieve the files he stored in an account on the cloud storage site Megaupload. When the government seized Megaupload’s assets and servers in January 2012, Mr. Goodwin lost access to video...
EFF at World Maker Faire New York 2015
Celebrate innovation with EFF at World Maker Faire New York 2015! We are pleased to participate in the world's most diverse showcase of creativity and innovation in technology, craft, science, fashion, art, food and more.
Stop by our booth in the Maker Pavilion in Zone 3 to say...
Obama Administration Supports Privacy-Invasive "Cybersecurity" Bill
Right before Congress left for its annual summer vacation the Obama Administration endorsed the Senate Intelligence Committee's Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA). EFF opposes the bill because its vague definitions, broad legal immunity, and new spying powers allow for a tremendous amount of unnecessary damage to users' privacy....
The Peruvian “Stalker Law” Will Be Reviewed By Congress, We Can Still Stop It
The Peruvian “Stalker Law” Will Be Reviewed By Congress, We Can Still Stop It
On July 27, Peru’s executive branch adopted a legislative decree (DL 1182) that allows warrantless access to Peruvians' location data, in cases of flagrante delicto. The decree has been dubbed "Ley Acosadora," or in English, "the Stalker Law," because of the way it creates a...
In Lawsuit Challenging DEA Bulk Surveillance, Judge Gives Rare OK to Discovery
A federal judge in Los Angeles has given our clients, Human Rights Watch, the go-ahead to take discovery from the government in our ongoing lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the DEA’s bulk surveillance program. Friday's decision is rare, and it's a decisive victory—both for HRW and for the...
Will Hollywood's Whining Thwart Better TPP Copyright Rules?
As far as secret, corporate-driven trade agreements go, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a particularly terrible deal for users, not least because it empowers Hollywood and other big publishers at the expense of everyone else. But there seems to be a glimmer of hope that one critical part of...
TPP's Copyright Term Extension Isn't Made for Artists—It's Made By and For Big Content Companies
Ley Stalker del Perú Será Revisada Por El Congreso, Y Aún Podemos Frenarla
El pasado 27 de Julio, el Poder Ejecutivo del Perú aprobó el Decreto Legislativo 1182 que permite al Estado acceder, en casos de flagrancia, a los datos de tu ubicación sin una orden judicial. Además obliga a las empresas operadoras de telefonía e Internet a retener los datos...
