The FAA Creates Thin Privacy Guidelines For The Nation's First Domestic Drone "Test Sites"
Commercial unmanned aerial systems are set to start flying over US airspace in 2015. In November, the Federal Aviation Administration released its final privacy rules for the six drone “test sites” that the agency will use to evaluate how drones will be integrated into domestic air traffic. These new...
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Eight Tech Giants Call for Reform to Surveillance Law
Today, there are full-page advertisements running in the New York Times, Washington Post, Politico, Roll Call, and The Hill. They all have the same message: big tech companies are calling on Congress to rein in the mass surveillance. You can read the full message on the newly-launched Reform Government...
EFF Asks Supreme Court to Expand Fee Shifting in Patent Cases
Today, EFF—along with Engine, the App Developers Alliance, and Public Knowledge—filed a brief asking the Supreme Court to retain some sanity in the law and tighten up the rules around fee shifting. Fee shifting, sometimes called "loser pays," is already in the Patent Act. While the...
No More Downtime for Free Speech: EFF Helps People for the American Way Challenge DMCA Abuser
For several weeks now, former Navy chaplain and Colorado Assembly candidate Gordon Klingenschmitt has been on a campaign to shut down the YouTube account of People for the American Way's Right Wing Watch (“RWW”) project. RWW reports and comments on the political views of folks like Klingenschmitt, using...
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...
