EFF to Court: Expanding Copyrights In Old Music Recordings Will Squelch Competition In New Music Services
Are you a radio listener? A fan of classic rock or jazz? Do you tune in to Sirius XM’s “60s on 6” channel or seed your Pandora stream with the Rolling Stones? A case in federal appeals court in New York (and a similar case in California) could shake up...
30 Organizaciones de América Latina Defendieron Los Derechos Humanos En Foro de Gobernanza de Internet
Con motivo del octavo Foro Latinoamericano de Gobernanza de Internet (LACIGF8), que se llevó a cabo en la Ciudad de México entre el 2 y el 4 de agosto pasado, organizaciones de la sociedad civil de América Latina presentaron una declaración defendiendo los derechos humanos en la era...
Let’s Pull Public Comment into the 21st Century with San Francisco’s Prop. E
In 1991, computer scientists at the University of Cambridge pointed a camera at a coffee machine and programmed it to broadcast images of the pot levels to anyone in their building with a need for caffeine. With that, webcams and live-streaming were born, and now we live in an...
Clear Rules of the Road with the Do Not Track Policy
What if using the Web didn’t mean sacrificing your privacy?
We’ve spent years thinking about simple ways for everyday users to demand real privacy online. And, working in consultation with privacy experts across the globe, we’ve got a blueprint for addressing one particularly challenging privacy dilemma: online tracking.
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A License to Kill Innovation: Why A.B. 1326—California’s Bitcoin License—is Bad for Business, Innovation, and Privacy
With assistance from Joseph Bonneau, Lee Tien, and Jamie WilliamsBitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto would never have qualified for a license under California’s proposed virtual currency regulationA.B. 1326 (Dababneh) is a bill that would require “virtual currency businesses” to apply for and obtain a license in order to offer services...
Do Not Track: Documentary Web Series Provides a Dystopian Glimpse into the Tracking Universe
Do Not Track (not to be confused with EFF's recently launched browser policy) makes the most of the documentary web series format: it is a fully immersive, interactive experience that makes good use of cat gifs in order to explain the technologies that track us across the...
Canadian Filmmaker Fears for Creative Freedom Under the TPP
The following is a guest post from Brett Gaylor, Canadian filmmaker and creator of RiP!: A Remix Manifesto.
Most people's experience with copyright begins and ends with the FBI warnings that play before movies on a DVD. But for those who make a living from creative work, copyright is...
Privacy Badger 1.0 Is Here To Stop Online Tracking!
Privacy Badger 1.0 Blocks the Sneakiest Kinds of Online Tracking
San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today released Privacy Badger 1.0, a browser extension that blocks some of the sneakiest trackers that try to spy on your Web browsing habits.
More than a quarter of a million users have already installed the alpha and beta releases of...







