EFF Throttles Notorious Patent Used to Threaten Public Transit Systems
Campaign to End NSA Warrantless Surveillance Surges Past 500,000 Signers
Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor of the World Wide Web, Joins Half Million Users in Opposing NSA Dragnet Surveillance
Over five hundred thousand people have signed onto the Stop Watching Us campaign, a nonpartisan, grassroots campaign opposing the dragnet surveillance programs of the National Security Agency (NSA). Galvanized by newly...
Renowned Security Expert Bruce Schneier Joins EFF Board of Directors
San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is honored to announce the newest member of its Board of Directors: renowned security expert Bruce Schneier.
Schneier is widely acclaimed for his criticism and commentary on everything from network security to national security. His insight is particularly important as we...
EFF Sues FBI For Access to Facial-Recognition Records
EFF Sues FBI For Access to Facial-Recognition Records
San Francisco - As the FBI is rushing to build a "bigger, faster and better" biometrics database, it's also dragging its feet in releasing information related to the program's impact on the American public. In response, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today filed a lawsuit to compel the FBI to...
Global Dialogue on Governmental Extra-Territorial Surveillance
This is the seven article of our Spies Without Borders series. The series looks into how the information disclosed in the NSA leaks affects Internet users around the world whose private information is stored in U.S. servers, or whose data travels across U.S. networks.
As news of the...
EFF Throttles Notorious Patent Used to Threaten Public Transit Systems
San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has throttled a notorious patent used to wrongfully demand payment from cities and other municipalities that use tracking systems to tell transit passengers if their buses and trains are on time.
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has drastically...
A New Kind of D(EFF)CONtest
Gaymer.org Creator Censors Self But Holds On To Bogus Trademark (For Now)
Sometimes people just don't get it.
Last year, we were surprised and disappointed to hear that Chris Vizzini, the founder of a website focused on the gay gaming community (and the owner of a bogus trademark in the term "gaymer") was claiming that Reddit's /r/gaymers community...
