‘Where is My Data?’: A Race To the Top For The Protection of Internet Users in Colombia
New Jersey Drops Investigation Into Tidbit
We’re happy to announce that the New Jersey Attorney General has dropped its investigation of Tidbit as detailed in a consent order filed yesterday in Essex County Superior Court in New Jersey.Tidbit was a project of four Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) students who developed the software for a...
Victory: Photo Hobbyist Prevails Over Junk-Patent Bully
TISA: Yet Another Leaked Treaty You've Never Heard Of Makes Secret Rules for the Internet
A February 2015 draft of the secret Trade In Services Agreement (TISA) was leaked again last week, revealing a more extensive and more recent text than that of portions from an April 2014 leak that we covered last year. Together with the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and...
Logjam, Part 2: Did the NSA Know the Internet Was Broken?
In part 1, we described the technical details of Logjam. Here we'll discuss some of the disturbing questions this vulnerability raises about secure communication on the Internet and NSA's apparent failure in its "information assurance" role to keep the Internet safe from large-scale threats.
First, this vulnerability provides...
Logjam, Part 1: Why the Internet is Broken Again (an Explainer)
The discovery last week of another major flaw in TLS was announced, nicknamed "Logjam" by the group of prominent cryptographers who discovered it. It's getting so hard to keep track of these flaws that researchers at INRIA in France created a "zoo" classifying the...
EFF Joins Public Interest Groups in Asking Congress to Strengthen the Ability to Challenge Bad Patents
Amidst the clamor of surveillance reform and TPP Fast Track negotiations, Congress is still finding time to work out the kinks of patent reform. One of the big topics of the day: inter partes review (IPR). This procedure lets third parties (like EFF) challenge bad patents (like the one...
Supreme Court Rejects Attempt to Expand Patent Liability, But Limits Defenses
Today, the Supreme Court decided Commil v. Cisco, a patent case that asked whether having a “good-faith belief” that a patent is invalid means that someone can’t induce infringement of a patent.
As we previously noted, this is a complex area of patent law. Generally, the law...
The Senate Has Passed the TPP Fast Track Bill—We Now Take Our Fight to the House
The Senate passed a bill Friday night to put the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) on the Fast Track to approval. Its passage followed a series of stops and starts—an indication that this legislation was nearly too rife with controversy to pass. But after a series of...
The Clock is Still Running: Neither NSA Reform Nor Reauthorization Advances in Senate
Tonight, the US Senate failed to move ahead with the USA Freedom Act, an NSA reform bill that would address phone record surveillance and FISA Court transparency and fairness. It also was unable to muster votes for a temporary reauthorization of Section 215 of the Patriot Act, the section of...
