Tell the FAA: Don’t Ground Good Drones!
EFF at OpenWest
EFF returns for the 7th Annual OpenWest Conference in Orem, Utah! Don't miss the Thursday morning keynote speech from EFF Activist Adi Kamdar. Adi will also participate in the OpenWest Digital Privacy Panel at 5 PM. Check out the schedule.
Throughout the conference, you...
EFF Opposes Senate Leader Mitch McConnell's Section 215 Reauthorization
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Intelligence Committee Chair Senator Richard Burr introduced S. 1035 last night. The bill reauthorizes Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act—the provision used by the NSA to collect innocent Americans' everyday calling records—until 2020.
EFF strongly opposes such...
EFF to Congress: Stop the Cybersurveillance Bills
EFF joined over 50 privacy and civil society organizations that sent two letters to Congress demanding it vote against the Senate Intelligence Committee's cybersecurity "information sharing" bill, the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 (CISA, S. 754) and the House Intelligence Committee’s bill, the Protecting Cyber Networks Act...
San Francisco Opposes TPP Fast Track in New Resolution
San Francisco Opposes TPP Fast Track in New Resolution
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has unanimously voted in favor of a resolution today urging the district's congressional representatives to oppose Fast Track legislation for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement. Supervisor John Avalos put forth the resolution, which expresses concerns about the secret trade agreement's provisions that...
"Stop Cyber Spying" Campaign Tells Obama and Congress to Drop Failed Cybersecurity Bills
EFF, Access, and a coalition of other digital rights organizations have launched a campaign opposing legislative attempts to make information sharing between companies and the government easier. The 5 bills—touted as cybersecurity bills—would provide legal avenues for Internet companies to share unprecedented amounts of data with the US government,...
Investigative Reporting on MPAA's SOPA Revival Effort Wins Pulitzer
A New York Times series on secretive corporate lobbying of state attorneys general has been awarded a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting today. The entire series does important digging on an area of political influence that's generally less transparent than Congressional lobbying. But most relevant to EFF was...
New “Breaking Down Barriers to Innovation Act” Targets Many of DMCA Section 1201's Problems
On Thursday, Senator Ron Wyden and Representative Jared Polis introduced a new bill to fix many of the problems that Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act causes for free speech, privacy, security research, and innovation. Called the “Breaking Down Barriers to Innovation Act,” the bill would...
United Airlines Stops Researcher Who Tweeted about Airplane Network Security from Boarding Flight to Security Conferences
Our client, Chris Roberts, a founder of the security intelligence firm One World Labs, found himself detained by the FBI earlier this week after tweeting about airplane network security during a United Airlines flight. When Roberts landed in Syracuse, he was questioned by the FBI, which ultimately seized a...
