UPDATE: EFF Fights Back Against Oakland's Disturbing Domain Awareness Center
UPDATE- March 5, 2014:
After a grueling meeting where dozens of speakers expressed concerns about privacy, racial profiling, and political repression, the Oakland City Council voted to move forward with a reduced Domain Awareness Center. The motion that was approved will remove city cameras and ShotSpotter from the...
Mexican Protest Site Censored by GoDaddy — with the U.S. Embassy's Help
The Mexican website 1dmx.org (mirror here), was set up in the wake of a set of controversial December 1st 2012 protests against the inauguration of the new President of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto. For a year, the site served as a source of information, news, discussion and commentary...
EFF Urges Supreme Court to Crack Down on Patent Trolls
EFF Urges Supreme Court to Crack Down on Patent Trolls
San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urged the U.S. Supreme Court to crack down on patent trolls and the schemes they use to perpetuate their lawsuits in two amicus briefs filed today.
"Patent trolls and their payoff demands depend on a flawed U.S. patent system," said EFF...
Obama Nominates Former SOPA Lobbyist to Help Lead TPP Negotiations
President Obama has nominated former SOPA lobbyist Robert Holleyman to join the team of U.S. negotiators leading the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) talks. If confirmed by the Senate, the former chief executive officer of the Business Software Alliance (BSA) would serve as a Deputy to the U.S....
EFF Fights National Security Letter Demands on Behalf of Telecom, Internet Company
EFF Fights National Security Letter Demands on Behalf of Telecom, Internet Company
San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed two briefs on Friday challenging secret government demands for information known as National Security Letters (NSLs) with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The briefs—one filed on behalf of a telecom company and another for an Internet company—remain under seal because...
EFF Staff to Speak at RightsCon!
The RightsCon summit is making its way back to Silicon Valley March 3-5, opening its doors to human rights experts, engineers, government representatives, and other activists from around the globe who will discuss solutions to human rights challenges. As such, a number of EFF...
Two New Decisions Strengthen Cell Phone Privacy in Texas and Washington
On back-to-back days this week, residents in Texas and Washington received some extra legal protection for the contents of their cell phones. These decisions, while only binding on law enforcement within each respective state, could play an important role on the ongoing debate on cell phone privacy specifically, and applying...
EFF Asks For Court Records On Warner Brothers' Robo-Takedowns, As Congress Gets Ready To Hear Testimony About Copyright Enforcement Systems
This week, EFF asked a federal court in Florida to unseal records from the Disney v. Hotfile case describing Warner Brothers' system for sending takedown notices to websites. Warner, and the other plaintiffs in the case,...
