Ethiopia Promises Reform, But Has a Long Way To Go on Civil Liberties
Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn praised the value of the press in his remarks after a state visit with Barack Obama, saying "as far as Ethiopia is concerned, we need journalists.” But almost in the same breath, he called for limits on free expression, suggesting Ethiopia’s domestic journalists ...
Stop CISA Week of Action: EFF Joins Over 60 Organizations and Companies Opposing CISA
EFF joined over 68 security experts, tech companies, and civil society organizations urging President Obama to threaten to veto the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA, S. 754) as part of our Week of Action opposing CISA.
This broad coalition strongly opposes CISA because it threatens privacy and...
Public Interest Groups and Over a Thousand Users Call on the Copyright Office to Affirm Its Call for Sensible Copyright Policy
Under the copyright term extensions we've seen in leaked drafts of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the quarter of a billion people living in six of the negotiating countries could lose access to 20 years of the public domain. This proposal conflicts not just with common sense, but with...
The Crypto Wars Have Gone Global
Recently, Congress heard testimony about whether or not backdoors should be introduced into encryption technologies, a technically problematic proposal that would fundamentally weaken the security of the Internet, according to a recent report written by eleven of the world’s leading cryptographers. But while Congress is reliving these debates from...
Stop CISA: Join EFF in a Week of Action Opposing Broad "Cybersecurity" Surveillance Legislation
Peru Adopts Data Retention Decree: Declares Location Data No Longer Protected
The Peruvian President today adopted a legislative decree that will grant the police warrantless access to real time user location data on a 24/7 basis. But that’s not the worst part of the decree: it compels telecom providers to retain, for one year, data on who communicates with whom,...
TPP Undermines User Control and That's Disastrous for Accessibility
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) threatens all users' ability to access information and participate in culture and innovation online, but it's especially severe for those with disabilities or who otherwise depend on content in accessible formats. That's because it doubles down on broken policies that were heavily lobbied for by...
Stop CISA: Join EFF in a Week of Action Opposing Broad "Cybersecurity" Surveillance Legislation
How do you kill a zombie bill like CISA? Grassroots action. That's why EFF and over a dozen other groups are asking you to join us in a Week of Action to Stop CISA. The Senate is likely to vote on the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) in the...
Anatomy of a Copyright Coup: Jamaica's Public Domain Plundered
Correction: Although the information that we had to hand at the time of this article suggested that the law took effect from January 1962, section 137A of the Act as subsequently published online clearly indicates a commencement date of January 2012. This means that the law...
The Copyright Office Belongs in a Library
It's been an exciting summer for the Library of Congress. Last month, the Librarian Dr. James Billington announced he would soon be stepping down, vacating a seat he's held for some 28 years. That announcement came hot on the heels of a new legislative proposal—the nigh-ungooglable CODE Act,...
