Mandatory Reporting of User Content Chills Speech and Violates Privacy Rights
UPDATE: We're happy to report that this controversial provision was removed from the 2016 Intelligence Authorization bill.
EFF joined a broad coalition of 31 organizations in sending a letter to Senate leadership opposing an unconstitutionally vague bill that would require Internet companies to report to the government...
New TPP Leaked Text Reveals Countries' Weakening Resistance to Copyright Maximalist Proposals
When we wrote about the intermediary liability provisions in a reported May 2015 leak of the Intellectual Property chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) last month, we hadn't actually seen the text. But thanks to the publication of that leak by Knowledge Ecology International yesterday and...
Malaysia Doesn't Need Another 20 Years of Copyright
DHS Agrees with EFF: Senate's CISA "Cybersecurity" Bill Will Damage Privacy
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the lead agency tasked with protecting civilian government computer systems, agrees that the Senate's Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) is fundamentally flawed. DHS's letter to Senator Al Franken, which voiced many concerns about the bill, joins the chorus of criticisms raised by...
TPP Negotiators Leave Hawaii While the Conclusion of the Deal Still Looms
Update August 5, 2015: See our analysis of the new leaked TPP Intellectual Property text.
Despite intense pressure to wrap up with a complete deal, the Hawaii round of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations ended on Friday in a deadlock. The trade ministers ultimately remained in...
How Kazakhstan is Trying to Use the US Courts to Censor the Net
The government of Kazakhstan has pursued one of its fiercest critics, the newspaper Respublika, with lawsuits and threats for fifteen years. By 2012, it seemed it had finally achieved its aim: after repeated prosecutions for "inciting social discord" and "spreading extremism," the paper's founder was in exile, and its...
A New Milestone: Appeals Court to Consider NSA's Mass Seizures and Searches on the Internet Backbone
One of the most outrageous ways that the government has violated our Fourth Amendment rights against general seizures and searches has been through its system of tapping into the fiber optic cables of America’s telecommunications companies. The result is a digital dragnet—a technological mass surveillance system that subjects millions of...
Movie Studios Seek SOPA Power Through Broad Site-Blocking Order
Major movie studios are again trying to make a website they don’t like disappear without a trial. This time, the studios are asking for one court order to bind every domain name registrar, registry, hosting provider, payment processor, caching service, advertising network, social network, and bulletin board—in short,...
New Street-Level Surveillance Project Tracks Spying Technologies Used by Local Law Enforcement
New Street-Level Surveillance Project Tracks Spying Technologies Used by Local Law Enforcement
San Francisco – Responding to a troubling rise in law enforcement’s use of high-tech surveillance devices that are often hidden from the communities where they’re used, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today launched the Street-Level Surveillance Project (SLS), a Web portal loaded with comprehensive, easy-to-access information on police...
