EFF, ACLU Join Idaho Mom’s Legal Challenge to NSA Surveillance
Coeur d'Alene, Idaho - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the American Civil Liberties Union of Idaho have announced they will join Anna Smith's legal team in her challenge of the government's bulk collection of the telephone records of millions of innocent Americans.
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EFF to FCC: Defend the Neutral Internet
San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has told the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that the agency must abandon its current, dangerous plan to allow for Internet traffic discrimination. Instead, EFF is urging the FCC to reclassify the Internet as a "common carrier" and also to restrict itself to...
EFF Joins 35 Organizations, Companies, and Security Experts Calling on President Obama to Veto CISA
EFF joined a group of thirty-five civil society organizations, companies, and security experts that sent a letter on Monday encouraging President Obama to veto S. 2588, the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (“CISA”) of 2014. The letter states:
CISA fails to offer a comprehensive solution to cybersecurity threats. Further,...
New Mexico Inmate Faces 90 Days in Solitary Confinement Over a Facebook Profile
Update: A few hours after we posted this, New Mexico Corrections Department informed us that inmate Eric Aldaz's Facebook-related disciplinary infractions have been thrown out. More information at the bottom.
Like more than a billion other people on the planet, Eric Aldaz had a Facebook profile. What made Aldaz’s...
Congress Takes On Copyright Term, Moral Rights, and More
The House Judiciary seems to have pulled from a grab bag in scheduling the next hearing in its series reviewing various aspects of copyright law for reform. Tomorrow's session is titled "Moral Rights, Termination Rights, Resale Royalty, and Copyright Term," covering four very distinct areas of law and...
NSA Spying: Now It's Personal
NSA Spying: Now It's Personal
Imagine that you watched a police officer in your neighborhood stop ten completely ordinary people every day just to take a look inside their vehicle or backpack. Now imagine that nine of those people are never even accused of a crime. They just happened to be in the wrong place...
The TROL Act is Not Enough To Stop Patent Trolls
Yesterday, a new patent reform bill passed out of subcommittee in the House. The bill, called the Targeting Rogue and Opaque Letters Act, or TROL Act, deals with the problem of misleading patent demand letters. While we are pleased that Congress is still taking an interest in...
NGOs Launch Digital First Aid Kit
TPP Experts Briefing: Informing TPP Negotiators of the Threats of Expanded Copyright Restrictions
Due to the unprecedented secrecy surrounding the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations taking place this week in Ottawa, there was no formal opportunity to engage with negotiators about the concerns that EFF and many others have expressed—over issues such as the extension of copyright protection by 20 years,...





