Next week, one of the most respected security research conferences in the world, the USENIX Security Symposium, will be held in Washington D.C. Thanks to a gag order from a British court, however, it won't go quite as planned. The order forbids the authors of a paper describing...

We've not talked much about the International Trade Commission (ITC) here, but something quite interesting happened there over the weekend. The White House stepped in and, in a notable and rare move, overruled a ban limiting importation of certain Apple products. That ban was based on an ITC finding of...

Following a wave of polls showing a remarkable turn of public opinion, Congress has finally gotten serious about bringing limits, transparency and oversight to the NSA’s mass surveillance apparatus aimed at Americans.
While we still believe that the best first step is a modern Church Committee, an independent,...

Copyright policies do not belong in trade agreements­—period. Negotiated without a trace of transparency or democratic oversight, these secret diplomatic processes are the worst venues to enact digital policy. Not only has the public been completely shut out, U.S. Congress members have extremely limited access to agreement texts even as...

EFF is at Black Hat and DEF CON this week, two conferences that draw a wide variety of people from tech including security researchers, coders, engineers, and everyday users. This year, EFF is pushing its campaign around making common sense changes to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act—including a...

EFF is proud to welcome prolific First Amendment lawyer David Greene to our legal team. As a senior staff attorney, David’s work will include free speech and privacy litigation and he has already hit the ground sprinting as one of the experts involved in EFF’s freedom-of-association lawsuit against the NSA.
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EFF's fourth annual DEF CON t-shirt is a killer. Special donors will be able to pick up the limited edition "Encryption is Key" design in Las Vegas this year, but that's not all. This t-shirt is a solveable puzzle. The first 10 individuals to decipher it, retrieve the correct passphrase,...

This is a guest post by ACLU of Northern California Staff Attorney Linda Lye. You can follow her on Twitter at @linda_lye.
Earlier this week, the Oakland City Council voted to approve the second phase of a $10.9 million surveillance center that would enable the City...