The Trans-Pacific Plague: How TPP Spreads the United States' Terrible DRM Policies
Laws that make it illegal to interfere with digital rights management (DRM) technologies—also known as “anti-circumvention” laws—are already much too broad and restrictive in most countries. Unfortunately, the US Trade Representative is working hard to expand its reach even more using the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement. The TPP’s ...
International Day Against DRM: It's Time to Fix U.S. Copyright Law
How DRM Harms Our Computer Security
DRM and the laws that back it up actively undermine our computer security. On this Day Against DRM, the first one since we learned about the US government’s efforts to sabotage the integrity of our cryptography and security technology, it's more important than ever to...
International Day Against DRM: It's Time to Fix U.S. Copyright Law
EVENT TODAY: We're taking this day to educate people about the threats of DRM and the current policy challenges we face around DRM. We just completed a live video discussion at 10:00 AM PDT / 1:00 PM EDT to learn more about these fights and what...
EFF Statement on Rep. Sensenbrenner's USA FREEDOM Act Amendment
In the latest legislative move to rein in NSA surveillance, Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner today released new language for the USA FREEDOM Act that will be reviewed this Wednesday by the House Judiciary Committee. If passed, the bill will move forward for the full House for a vote.
EFF Senior...
Proposed Mexican Telecom Law Would Be a Disaster for Internet Freedom
In Mexico City last week, protestors formed a human chain to demonstrate their opposition to Ley de Telecomunicaciones y Radiodifusión, the telecommunications and broadcasting law that President Enrique Peña Nieto introduced at the end of March. The protest came on the heels of a Global Day of...
The White House Big Data Report: The Good, The Bad, and The Missing
Last week, the White House released its report on big data and its privacy implications, the result of a 90-day study commissioned by President Obama during his January 17 speech on NSA surveillance reforms. Now that we’ve had a chance to read the report we’d like to share our...
Press Freedom is for Everyone
Today is Press Freedom Day. We, along with dozens of organizations, take this opportunity to highlight the cases of journalists and bloggers in danger around the world. But World Press Freedom day is more than that. Any journalist, online or off, will tell you that their freedom to report...
In Long-Fought Victory for Anonymous Email Users Chevron Agrees to Withdraw Google and Yahoo! Subpoenas
EFF has been working with EarthRights International to quash subpoenas issued to Yahoo!, Google, and Microsoft for the email and personal information of dozens of Ecuadorian environmental activists, attorneys, and journalists in a case that is rooted in a decades-long battle over environmental damage caused by oil drilling...
EFF at ISSA-LA Information Security Summit
Join EFF at the 6th annual ISSA-LA Information Security Summit! The Los Angeles Chapter Information Systems Security Association presents this event to provide a unique opportunity to learn from leading cyber security experts like Former White House cyber security czar Richard A. Clarke and Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie...
