Pyrawebs: Paraguayans Rise Up Against Mandatory Data Retention
EFF Joins Dozens of Groups in Call for Transparency in Trans-Pacific Partnership Talks
Washington, D.C. - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has joined dozens of civil society groups from around the world in calling for the release of the secret text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)—a massive proposed trade agreement that could quash digital rights for Internet users everywhere in the name of...
48 Civil Society Groups and Experts Call on TPP Negotiators to Follow EU's Lead and Release Secret Trade Texts
EFF joins 47 other civil society groups and experts from around the world to call on trade ministers of countries negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) to publish the current draft of the agreement, as well as all nations' negotiating positions. The TPP has been negotiated in secret for the...
Password Sharing Isn’t a Crime, EFF Tells Ninth Circuit
How many times have you logged into a computer or website with someone else’s name and password—maybe to retrieve information for a spouse or a friend—completely with their permission? Can you imagine spending a year in prison for that? It sounds ridiculous. That’s why EFF filed a “friend of the...
Google News Shuttered in Spain Thanks to “Ancillary Copyright” Law
Today, Google has announced that it will be permanently shutting down the Spanish version of Google News, effective from December 16, 2014. The shutdown comes in direct response to amendments to the Spanish intellectual property law (Ley De Propiedad Intelectual) imposing a compulsory fee for the use...
Pointing Users to DRM-Stripping Software Isn't Copyright Infringement, Judge Rules
Telling users how to strip the DRM from their legally purchased ebooks is not contributory copyright infringement, according to a ruling last month by a federal judge in New York. Judge Denise Cote dismissed two publishers' claims of contributory infringement and inducement in Abbey House Media v. Apple...
Tell Obama: Stop Mass Surveillance Under Executive Order 12333
Recording of the Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace Released on Vinyl
It’s been over 14 years since EFF co-founder and former Grateful Dead lyricist John Perry Barlow penned the now-famous “Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace." And since 1996, his words have become even more relevant than they were then:
In China, Germany, France, Russia, Singapore, Italy and the...
On Human Rights Day, We Remember Jailed Human Rights Defenders
This statement was drafted with SMEX, Global Voices, and individual actors. The original post can be found here.
Today, on Human Rights Day, we remind the world of our many friends who have broken the silence of oppression by expressing their thoughts, asking questions, and thinking critically...
EFF Demands US Trade Negotiators Publish Their Public Records
It's no secret that the US Trade Representative (USTR) has approached the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations with a disappointing lack of transparency. For years now, leaks have been an inadequate substitute to reasonable public policy, and non-corporate groups have resorted to reading between the lines of...
