EFF at 30C3
EFF is headed to Hamburg for the 30th annual Chaos Communication Congress, the four-day conference on technology, society and utopia. Three members of the EFF staff will give official presentations:
Disclosure DOs, Disclosure DON'Ts, 12/28, 23:00: Staff Attorney Nate Cardozo will give a talk focusing on responsible disclosure...
Dancing Baby Files Opening Brief in DMCA Abuse Appeal
Stephanie Lenz’s effort to hold Universal Music Group accountable for abusing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) to take down a home video of her toddler “dancing” to Prince in the kitchen is one step closer to fruition. Today, EFF and co-counsel Keker & Van Nest LLP filed an opening...
It's Game Time: Supreme Court to Address Abstract Software Patents
Patent reform is moving along nicely on Capitol Hill, but today we got some more really big news. The Supreme Court has agreed to take on the question of patentable subject matter. Specifically, it's time to talk about software patents.
A brief refresher: under the law, one cannot...
Meet CO-TRAVELER: The NSA's Cell Phone Location Tracking Program
An article yesterday in the Washington Post disclosed the NSA's massive cell phone location program. The program, codenamed CO-TRAVELER, is designed to track who meets with whom and covers everyone who carries a cell phone, all around the world.
With neither public debate nor court authorization, CO-TRAVELER collects...
It's Time to Update Archaic Email Privacy Law
Nuevo Código Mexicano de Procedimientos Penales Afecta el Derecho a la Privacidad
Hoy, el Congreso Mexicano adoptó - por primera vez en la historia de este país - un Código Nacional de Procedimientos Penales que incluye disposiciones relacionadas a la vigilancia de las comunicaciones. Si bien hubo amplia participación en el proceso legislativo por parte de la sociedad civil mexicana (quienes a...
Good News, America. We're One Giant Step Closer to Patent Reform!
Good News, America. We're One Giant Step Closer to Patent Reform!
Good news! Today, the House of Representatives voted 325-91 in favor of the Innovation Act, the best troll-killing bill we've seen yet. And earlier this week the White House put out a strong statement in support of the legislation. All that's left is the Senate, which has promised...
It's Time to Update Archaic Email Privacy Law
Privacy is due for an upgrade. Today, the Electronic Frontier Foundation joins a nationwide day of action calling for reform of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), the 1986 law used by the government to access your online documents, messages, and emails stored in the cloud without a warrant.
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Tell the UN General Assembly To Support a Right to Privacy
In the next few days, the United Nations General Assembly will vote on a draft resolution reaffirming the right to privacy in the digital age.
The draft resolution passed out of the UN third committee last week with a strong support of 50 Member States. Now that...
