Will Morocco Regulate the Internet? An Interview with Zineb Belmkaddem and @IbnKafka
In a region where censorship is the norm, Morocco has always stood out for its nominally free press, and mostly free Internet. But in the past year, that freedom has been repeatedly challenged, most recently when editor Ali Anouzla was imprisoned under terrorism charges for linking to a...
Increasing Anti-Surveillance Momentum and the Necessary and Proportionate Principles
Last Monday, eight of the largest Internet companies took the unprecedented step of publicly calling for an end to bulk collection of communications data. Then on Tuesday, a coalition of over 550 of the world’s leading authors (including 5 Nobel prize winners) issued a statement...
EFF's Reading List: Books of 2013
At the end of each year, EFF puts together a list of some of the interesting and noteworthy books that have been published in the past 12 months or so. We don't endorse all of their arguments, but we find they've added some valuable insight to the conversation around the...
In Historic Ruling, Federal Judge Declares NSA Mass Phone Surveillance is Likely Unconstitutional
In Historic Ruling, Federal Judge Declares NSA Mass Phone Surveillance is Likely Unconstitutional
In a historic decision, a federal judge in Washington, D.C. today declared that the NSA’s mass phone records surveillance is likely unconstitutional, ruling that the plaintiff’s data should be purged from the system and prohibiting the NSA from collecting further phone records from the plaintiffs.
The case, ...
The TPP's Attack on Artists' Termination Rights
Supporting Best Practices for Open Government Data
Public data that has been generated or commissioned by government bodies should always be available to the public without restrictions on its use by copyright or other laws. That's the spirit behind excluding works authored by the federal government from copyright restrictions, and the strong legal precedent that the law...
The TPP's Attack on Artists' Termination Rights
There are any number of controversial proposals in the leaked text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) chapter on intellectual property. Here’s one that’s not getting enough attention: the TPP appears to contain yet another attempt to undermine "termination rights," which grant artists the ability to regain control over copyrights...
Service Providers, Remix Artists, Filmmakers, and Public Interest Groups Support EFF in Dancing Baby Case
In Lenz v. Universal Music Group – aka the dancing baby case – EFF and co-counsel Keker & Van Nest, LLP have waged a long battle on behalf of homemaker Stephanie Lenz to ensure that Internet users have protection from unfounded claims of copyright infringement. Today, a broad array...
UN Tribunal Condemns the Vietnamese Government for Its Arbitrary Detention of Journalist and Lawyer Le Quoc Quan
Last week, a United Nations Rights Tribunal condemned the Vietnamese government for the arbitrary detention of Le Quoc Quan, a prominent lawyer, blogger, and human rights activist who has been imprisoned since December 27, 2012. EFF submitted a petition in March of this year with 11 other advocacy groups...
