Prepare to Take Action to Defend Net Neutrality. Here’s How the FCC Makes Its Rules.
Can This Web Be Saved? Mozilla Accepts DRM, and We All Lose
South Korea Officials Enact De Facto SOPA Regime to Block Foreign Websites
This blog post is co-authored by Heesob Nam, patent attorney, Intellectual Property activist, and a founder and board member of OpenNet Korea. This is also published on OpenNet's website.
The South Korean government has adopted an aggressive interpretation of their copyright law to block websites...
Hidden in Plain Sight: the European Court of Justice Opts for Scattergun Censorship
The European Court of Justice has been taking a stronger role this year in calculating how human rights apply to new technology, most recently with decisions repealing the EU's digital data retention directive. Now, in Google Spain v. Mario Costeja González, it has outlined how Europeans might have...
Can This Web Be Saved? Mozilla Accepts DRM, and We All Lose
It's official: the last holdout for the open web has fallen. Flanked on all sides by Google, Microsoft, Opera, and (it appears) Safari's support and promotion of the EME DRM-in-HTML standard, Mozilla is giving in to pressure from Hollywood, Netflix, et al, and will be implementing its own third-party version...
California Voters: Check Yes on Prop. 42
Whether you’re filling out a mail-in ballot or planning to rock the polling station in person on election day (June 3), if you’re a California voter we urge you to please vote "yes" on Prop. 42.
This statewide ballot measure would ensure that local agencies, such as cities...
Government Explains Away Fourth Amendment Protection for Digital Communications
People have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their private digital communications such as email, and therefore the Fourth Amendment protects those communications. It's a simple extension of the Supreme Court’s seminal 1967 ruling in Katz v. United States that the Fourth Amendment protected a telephone conversation held...
Members-Only Speakeasy: London
Join the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Privacy International for a drink on Wednesday, May 14th at a secret location in London! Raise a glass with us and discover our latest work defending your freedom online. EFF's Speakeasy events are free, informal meetups that give you a chance to...
Prepare to Take Action to Defend Net Neutrality. Here’s How the FCC Makes Its Rules.
It’s been hard to go a day without hearing news about the Chairman of the FCC, Tom Wheeler, and his highly contested plan for the future of network neutrality. Google and Netflix signed a letter with nearly 150 other Internet companies calling on the FCC to reconsider its...
Protecting Human Rights Online: Lessons from the Americas
During the aftermath of World War II, months before the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the formation of the United Nations, states in the Americas gathered to create the very first international human rights instrument of the modern era. In the midst of military regimes across...
