JPay Will No Longer Claim Ownership Over Inmate-Family Correspondence
Inmates and their families won't have to give up the intellectual property rights to their communications when they use JPay's email and video visitation services, the company announced in an email to EFF today.
EFF had written about an unfair clause in JPay's terms of service that...
EFF Asks Patent Office to Focus On Protecting Public from Bad Patents
This week, together with Public Knowledge and Engine, EFF submitted written comments to the Patent Office regarding its Patent Quality Initiative. We urge the Patent Office to ensure that this program actually reduces the number of invalid patents being issued. Its quality efforts should serve the...
With Third Party Records, Privacy Doesn’t Require Secrecy
Did you just buy a shiny new smartphone loaded with the newest and greatest features to have conversations throughout the day, wherever you are? While your phone’s capabilities are distinctly modern, a new decision in United States v. Davis allowing police to get without a warrant records of...
UN Experts Say TPP and Fast Track Threaten Human Rights
EFF Hails Court Ruling Rejecting NSA Bulk Collection of Americans' Phone Records
EFF Urges Appeals Court to Shut Down Attempt to Use Copyright to Censor
Copyright law is frequently misused as a tool to censor unwanted online criticism. And often, this misuse does not make it into court. But one such case has recently made its way up to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. And yesterday, EFF filed a “friend of the court”...
UN Experts Say TPP and Fast Track Threaten Human Rights
EFF Hails Court Ruling Rejecting NSA Bulk Collection of Americans' Phone Records
San Francisco - A federal appeals court today ruled that the NSA's bulk collection of phone records is illegal, saying Congress didn't authorize collection of a ''staggering'' amount of information on Americans. The decision by a three-judge panel of the U.S.Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit overturns...
Virginia Governor Signs Warrant Requirement for Drones, Rejects License Plate Reader Limits
With broad and near-unanimous bipartisan support, the Virginia General Assembly passed a series of bills this year to defend the public’s right to privacy from new mass surveillance technologies.
To his credit, Gov. Terry McAuliffe almost immediately signed a bill to require law enforcement to obtain a warrant before...
EFF Filings to Copyright Office Highlight Unintended Consequences of the DMCA
It’s International Day Against DRM, which means folks around the world bring attention to the dangers of the so-called “technical protection measures” embedded in their stuff. But DRM (which stands for Digital Rights Management) isn’t the whole problem; equally pernicious are the laws that prevent folks from circumventing the...
