Security BSides Austin
Members-Only Speakeasy: Boston
Meet up with EFF in Boston next Thursday, April 19th! Senior Staff Attorney Marcia Hofmann and Senior Staff Technologist Seth Schoen will be at SOURCE Boston to present "Defending Privacy at the U.S. Border: A Guide for Travelers Carrying Digital Devices," and they are...
Aereo Customers In NYC: EFF Needs Your Input
New Yorkers: Worried about whether you will have a right to watch local TV broadcasts on your Internet devices? Aereo is a company that lets users watch their local channels by renting a dime-sized antenna at Aereo's facility - one per customer. The signal from that antenna gets...
TPP: Continuing to Nudge Toward Agreement
Informal negotiations are underway in Chile this week on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP). Up for negotiation are provisions dealing with intellectual property – including online copyright enforcement, DMCA-style digital locks, and Internet intermediary liability.
TPP countries are holding informal inter-sessional discussions this week to nudge countries closer...
EFF Sponsors California Bill to Protect Location Data
Police shouldn’t be able to get your sensitive location data – information that can reveal your religion, health, hobbies, and politics – on a whim. That’s why EFF is a sponsor of a new bill in the California legislature that would ensure law enforcement obtains a warrant before acquiring...
European Data Retention Directive At Work: Polish Authorities Abuse Access to Users' Data
The Polish digital civil rights group Panoptykon Foundation recently published harrowing findings regarding abuses of Poland’s mandatory data retention law. Using a Freedom of Information Act request, Panoptykon obtained documents that reveal that in 2011, Polish authorities requested users’ traffic data retained by telcos and ISPs over...
Radical Library/Publisher and Prison Support Group Settle Lawsuit with FBI and UC-Berkeley Police over Improper Raid
Berkeley, CA - Two radical groups have settled their lawsuits over an armed, over-broad police raid after the law enforcement agencies agreed to delete improperly seized computer data and pay $100,000 in damages and attorney's fees. Moreover, the University of California-Berkeley Police Department (UCBPD) acknowledged that at the time of...
Appeals Court Rules That Violating Corporate Policy Is Not a Computer Crime
San Francisco - A federal appeals court today rejected a dangerous interpretation of the federal anti-hacking law, dismissing charges that would have criminalized any employee's use of a company's computers in violation of corporate policy.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed an amicus brief in this case, U.S. v....
In Tunisia and Palestine, Be Careful What You Say on Facebook
Palestinian Authority Arrests Journalists for Facebook Posts
Amidst rumors of new website blocking in the West Bank, a more troubling development has emerged: The Palestinian Authority arrested two journalists and a university lecturer last month for newspaper articles and Facebook posts that authorities deemed "slanderous."
Journalist Yousef al-Shayyeb...
