Take Action: It’s the Final Day To Tell The FCC Why Net Neutrality Must Be Preserved
After Setback in Texas, the Fight Against Podcasting Patent Troll Will Continue
We’ve been closely watching the trial in the Eastern District of Texas between podcasting patent troll Personal Audio and CBS. Today we heard disappointing news: after five days of trial, a federal jury found Personal Audio’s podcasting patent valid and infringed by CBS. The jury awarded $1.3 million in...
Good News: Alaa Abd El Fattah Freed On Bail
Alaa Abd El Fattah, the Egyptian activist and blogger who was sentenced in June to fifteen years in prison and began a hunger strike 26 days ago, has been freed on bail. Abd El Fattah was given release following a hearing for retrial, which he still faces. According...
Take Action: It’s the Final Day To Tell The FCC Why Net Neutrality Must Be Preserved
Today is the last day to file comments at the FCC in the net neutrality debate. Right now, before you even finish reading this, go to our tool at DearFCC.org and tell the Commission why the future of the open Internet matters to you.
This is a...
Comcast Denies Allegations of Tor Crackdown: Users Should Continue to Report any Non-Neutral Activity
Over the weekend accusations surfaced that Comcast has been threatening Tor users with termination of service. According to reports, Comcast subscribers claimed that agents from the company instructed subscribers that use of the highly popular Tor browser was “illegal” and against the giant ISP’s user policies. And let’s...
EFF to Testify at Congressional Hearing on Unintended Consequences of DMCA
Washington, D.C. - Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Intellectual Property Director Corynne McSherry will testify Wednesday at a congressional hearing on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and the dangerous "anti-circumvention" provisions that harm users, researchers, innovators, and more.
The anti-circumvention language of Section 1201 of the DMCA has been...
Protecting Privacy from Big Data: Putting the Cart Before the Horse
Today EFF Staff Technologist Jeremy Gillula is speaking at an FTC workshop on big data and its impact on privacy, prompted by the recent reports on big data by the White House as well as the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). Our major...
13 Principles Week of Action: Secret Law is Not Law
In the week leading up the first year anniversary of the 13 Necessary and Proportionate Principles, EFF and the coalition behind the 13 Principles will be conducting a Week of Action explaining some of the key guiding principles for surveillance law reform. Every day, we'll take on a different part...
13 Principles Week of Action: A Principled Fight Against Surveillance
In the week leading up the first year anniversary of the 13 Necessary and Proportionate Principles, EFF and the coalition behind the 13 Principles will be conducting a Week of Action explaining some of the key guiding principles for surveillance law reform. Every day, we'll take on a different part...
13 Principles Week of Action: The “Metadata Debate” ~ A Latin American Perspective
This is a guest post from Luis Fernando Garcia, Red en Defensa de los Derechos Digitales (R3D). If you have comments on this post, you can contact R3D on Twitter.
Between 15th-19th of September, in the week leading up the first year anniversary of the 13 Necessary...
