Here Is the New Face of TPP and ACTA in the US
Today, the White House announced that Michael Froman is the nominee to be the new U.S. Trade Representative. The U.S. Trade Rep is the office in charge of negotiating all trade agreements including the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), and the upcoming US-EU...
Bay Area Speakeasy and Housewarming!
Twice each year EFF members join us for drinks and conversation at secret locations in the Bay Area, and this time we are welcoming supporters to our new home! Let's celebrate over 22 years of EFF supporters working together to protect digital innovation, privacy, and free expression. Come and learn...
Supreme Court Foils Transparency Advocates' Challenge to "Citizens-Only" Records Laws
In an opinion met by groans from open-government advocates across the country, the U.S. Supreme Court this week unanimously ruled that government transparency has its limits—and those limits can be a state’s boundaries and the citizens living within them.
Open-records laws, most notably the Freedom of Information...
CISPA Passes Out of the House Without Any Fixes to Core Concerns
EFF Analyzes Last-Minute Amendments Made to CISPA
Recently the privacy-invading cybersecurity bill CISPA (Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act) passed the House. In its final version, CISPA still contains many of the same problems as before. An attempt was made to fix core privacy...
EFF to Federal Judge: Don’t Let the DMCA be a Tool for Censorship
Together with the Digital Media Law Project, we filed an amicus brief today in federal court in Massachusetts. We are urging the court to ensure that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act provides protection for victims of abusive takedown notices—specifically, that the DMCA requires copyright owners to consider...
You Didn’t Ask For it: Trademark Owner Tries to Invade Public Domain
It’s a tried and true principle that once a work enters the public domain, absent an act of Congress, it stays there. It can be preserved, shared and reused freely, without even a need to attribute to the original author. Archives of public domain works are extremely valuable to...
Questions the Senate Should Ask At Tomorrow's Briefing on the Aaron Swartz Prosecution
Tomorrow, the Justice Department will brief the Senate Judiciary staff on the prosecution of the late activist and Internet pioneer Aaron Swartz, who died in January. Swartz has become a lasting symbol for how the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) can be twisted by authorities to mete...
Craigslist Owns What You Did Last Summer
Did you post an ad on craigslist between July 26, 2012 and August 8, 2012? If so, bad news for you. Turns out that craigslist, and not you, owns that ad. In other words, if you try to repost it to another site, you could actually be infringing craigslist's copyright....
Who Has Your Back?
EFF Surveys Major Tech Companies' Privacy and Transparency Policies
San Francisco - As you search the Internet, visit websites, and update your social media accounts, you entrust a wealth of data to service providers: your thoughts, your photos, your location, and much more. What happens when the government wants access to all of this information, held by companies like...
