Calling all New Yorkers: Speak Up for Fair Repair
If you're trying to tinker with repair or even recycle your electronics—whether it's a computer, a tablet, or a toaster—you increasingly face two major hurdles. The first, bizarrely enough, is copyright law. See, you may own your device, but you probably just rent, or license, the software that runs...
House of Representatives Passes Cybersecurity Bills Without Fixing Core Problems
The House passed two cybersecurity "information sharing" bills today: the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence's Protecting Cyber Networks Act, and the House Homeland Security Committee's National Cybersecurity Protection Advancement Act. Both bills will be "conferenced" to create one bill and then sent to the Senate for advancement....
Tell the FAA: Don’t Ground Good Drones!
Dice Loaded Against Public in Canada's Copyright Term Extension
The announcement of the Canadian Government's plan to extend copyright terms for sound recordings came as a surprise when it was released in Canada's federal budget yesterday. The smooth stage management of the announcement has to be admired, accompanied as it was by pre-prepared soundbites from Canada's music A-list...
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...
