Congress Decides This Week Whether to Shut the NSA Backdoor: Here’s How You Can Help
Update: The US House voted overwhelmingly to approve the amendment during a late night session on Thursday, June 19. For EFF's statement on the passage of the amendment click here.
The NSA may seem like an intimidating giant, but it has a serious Achilles' heel—...
Nominate a 2014 Pioneer!
Nominations are Now Open for the 2014 Pioneer Awards
Here's your chance to nominate your favorite digital rights luminary for a 2014 Pioneer Award! This year’s Pioneers will join an esteemed group of past award winners that includes late visionary activist Aaron Swartz, Tunisian citizen media community Nawaat.org, and open-source pioneer Limor "Ladyada" Fried, among many remarkable journalists, entrepreneurs, public interest attorneys, and others. Nominations will open until midnight on Wednesday, July 2.
Physical Attacks Against Vietnamese Bloggers on the Rise
On May 25, 2014, a Vietnamese blogger and human rights activist, Tran Thi Nga, was seriously injured during a violent attack in Hanoi, a local human rights organization reported.
Tran Thi Nga, a savvy social media user in documenting human right abuses in Vietnam, was...
Will Telcos Follow ISPs and Extend Warrant Protection for All?
When courts issue new decisions about how law enforcement can obtain records and data from companies, it's not just the police who have to follow the new rules. The companies that turn over the data have a big role to play in ensuring that the law is followed. A...
Congratulations to the Winners of the 7th Annual Cyberlaw Trivia Night
Last Thursday, the best legal minds in the Bay Area gathered to participate in EFF's Seventh Annual Cyberlaw Pub Trivia Night. Over 110 lawyers and friends attended, making this our largest trivia night to date. Competition was fierce as teams put their heads together to test their knowledge of the...
How To Enable Amharic In Google Docs, And Why It Matters to Ethiopian Bloggers
In the Ethiopian community, bloggers, journalists, and activists are all targets of increasing levels of surveillance and intimidation. The Ethiopian government has used its monopoly on telecommunications to restrict its citizens rights to privacy and freedom of expression. The websites of opposition parties, independent media sites, blogs, and several international...
Citing “Intense Public Interest and Concern” Over Mass Surveillance, Judge Orders DOJ to Turn Over Secret Legal Opinions for Court to Review
A federal judge today ordered the Department of Justice to hand over key opinions by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (also known as the “FISA court”) so the judge can directly review whether information...
Tor Is For Everyone: Why You Should Use Tor
EFF recently kicked off our second Tor Challenge, an initiative to strengthen the Tor network for online anonymity and improve one of the best free privacy tools in existence. The campaign—which we've launched with partners at the Freedom of the Press Foundation, the Tor Project, and the Free...
EFF to Court: U.S. Warrants Don't Apply to Overseas Emails
San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has urged a federal court to block a U.S. search warrant ordering Microsoft to turn over a customer's emails held in an overseas server, arguing that the case has dangerous privacy implications for Internet users everywhere.
The case started in December...
US Trade Rep's Updated “Trade Objectives” Continue to Reflect Flawed Priorities
The Office of the United States Trade Representative published its updated objectives for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement, including its priorities in the Intellectual Property (IP) chapter of the multilateral trade agreement. Its new objectives in copyright enforcement mostly contain some vague rhetorical changes...
