Appeals Court to Hear Oral Arguments in Idaho Woman's Case Against NSA Spying
Seattle - An appeals court will hear oral arguments in Smith v. Obama, a case filed by an Idaho nurse against a controversial National Security Agency (NSA) telephone data collection program, in Seattle on Monday, Dec. 8.
Anna Smith, a neonatal nurse from Coeur d'Alene, filed her lawsuit...
Sifting Fact from Fiction with All Writs and Encryption: No Backdoors
Following recent reports in the Wall Street Journal and Ars Technica, there’s been new interest in the government’s use of a relatively obscure law, the All Writs Act. According to these reports, the government has invoked the All Writs Act in order to compel the assistance of...
Can’t Get Public Approval to Buy a Drone? Do it in Private!
You may remember that last year in Oakland, the Alameda County Board of Supervisors held a packed public hearing where members of the community, joined by EFF and ACLU of Northern California, testified for over three hours about worries around Sheriff Greg Ahern’s plan to obtain a drone....
Oral Argument in Smith v. Obama
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Seattle will hear oral argument in Smith v. Obama, a case challenging the government's bulk collection of the telephone records of millions of innocent Americans. Anna Smith, an Idaho neonatal nurse and Verizon customer, argued that the program violated her First and Fourth...
Copyright Law as a Tool for State Censorship of the Internet
When state officials seek to censor online speech, they're going to use the quickest and easiest method available. For many, copyright takedown notices do the trick. After years of lobbying and increasing pressure from content industries on policymakers and tech companies, sending copyright notices to take media offline is easier...
EFF Joins Amicus Brief in Support of Student Speech on Social Media
EFF Joins Amicus Brief in Support of Student Speech on Social Media
This week EFF joined an amicus brief in support of a college student who was expelled from school for comments he made on Facebook.
Craig Keefe was a nursing student at a public college in Minnesota when he posted several comments on his Facebook profile expressing frustration about...
Appeals Court Must Fix Dangerous 'Innocence of Muslims' Copyright Ruling
San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and a coalition of technology and free speech organizations are asking the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to fix a disastrously wrongheaded copyright ruling that required an online service provider to take offline—and keep offline—a controversial video that...
EFF Co-launches Global Coalition on Net Neutrality, as the Battle for an Open Internet Heats Up
Today EFF is proud to join 35 groups from 19 countries around the world to officially launch the campaign website of a new global coalition for net neutrality, at http://www.thisisnetneutrality.org/.
The breadth and diversity of this coalition underlines how net neutrality has truly become a...
Censoring the Web Isn't the Solution to Terrorism or Counterfeiting. It's the Problem.
In politics, as with Internet memes, ideas don't spread because they are good—they spread because they are good at spreading. One of the most virulent ideas in Internet regulation in recent years has been the idea that if a social problem manifests on the Web, the best thing that...
