Administration's New Cyber Threat Center Replaces Old Cyber Threat Center
This week the Obama administration is releasing its second Executive Order in as many years on computer ("cyber") security, which reports are saying will create a new department in the intelligence community to handle computer security threat information sharing. Officials are hailing the center as "new" and unprecedented.
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Hundreds of South Carolina Inmates Sent to Solitary Confinement Over Facebook
Hundreds of South Carolina Inmates Sent to Solitary Confinement Over Facebook
In the South Carolina prison system, accessing Facebook is an offense on par with murder, rape, rioting, escape and hostage-taking.Back in 2012, the South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC) made “Creating and/or Assisting With A Social Networking Site” a Level 1 offense [PDF], a category reserved for the most...
EFF tells UN: Anonymity and Encryption are the Guardians of Free Expression
In June 2015, the U.N's free speech watchdog, David Kaye, intends to present a new report on anonymity and encryption before the 47 Member States of the Geneva-based Human Rights Council. Yesterday, EFF filed comments urging Mr. Kaye to reaffirm the freedom to use encryption technology...
Jewel v. NSA: Making Sense of a Disappointing Decision Over Mass Surveillance
Jewel v. NSA: Making Sense of a Disappointing Decision Over Mass Surveillance
Yesterday marked a frustrating juncture in EFF’s long-running lawsuit against mass surveillance, Jewel v. NSA, filed on behalf of AT&T customers whose communications and telephone records are being vacuumed by the National Security Agency.
A federal court in San Francisco sided with the U.S. Department of Justice,...
Big Brother Is Listening: Users Need the Ability To Teach Smart TVs New Lessons
As the devices in our homes get "smarter," are they also going to spy on us? That question has led to one sentence in Samsung's SmartTV privacy policy getting a lot of attention lately:
Please be aware that if your spoken words include personal or other sensitive information,...
A Few Global Cultural Treasures We Will Lose For 20 Years Under the TPP
What do Japan's Blue Sky Library, Malaysia's answer to John Wayne, and the first recorded composer from New Zealand, all have in common? They could all disappear from their countries' public domain for the next 20 years, if the current agreement on copyright term extension in the Trans-Pacific...
EFF Vows to Continue the Fight Against Mass Surveillance After Disappointing Ruling
Judge White of the Northern District of California just issued an order granting the government's motion for partial summary judgment in Jewel v. NSA, EFF's longest-running case challenging mass spying.
EFF will keep fighting the unlawful, unconstitutional surveillance of ordinary Americans by the U.S. government. Today's ruling...
Obama Announces New Privacy Rules for the World. World Not Impressed.
President Obama recently announced slight changes to NSA data collection practices. The recent tweaks mean two new privacy protections for those that U.S. law considers foreigners (in this case, people who are outside of the United States borders who are neither U.S. citizens nor legal U.S. residents).
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